Mercedes Carrera Refuses #SXSW Censorship, Her Panel Appearance is Now Off

by · March 15, 2016

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Good morning readers. We have a big story for you all. As many of you know, Mercedes Carrera was scheduled to be a part of the Savepoint panel that’s taking place at SXSW later this morning. As it turns out, that’s not going to happen. The reason? Hugh Forrest, the director of the festival, tried to get Mercedes to censor herself in advance of the show. After months of biting her tongue, Ms. Carerra decided to go public with some of her criticisms of Randi Harper over the last couple days. Apparently that was too much for Mr. Forrest and the festival organizers, because they ended up telling Mercedes to delete the offending tweets and take down a video she had made. That has been flatly rejected and now her appearance at the panel is off.

Here are the emails he sent to Mercedes earlier this morning…

 

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And here is Ms. Carrera’s response…

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This is a breaking story. I’ll be back with more in just a minute…

OK, I just wanted to make sure I got this out before I spent anytime adding my thoughts on the matter, but needless to say, this confirms some of my worst fears about this event. What kind of organization tries to censor someone’s Twitter account as a condition of them showing up to speak? Have they ever done this sort of thing in the past, or are they targeting Mercedes because of her affiliation with GamerGate? It seems like it’s most likely the latter.

Mr. Forrest should be ashamed of himself and whoever is pulling his strings (likely Hamburger Harper) is an anti-speech fascist who deserves to be treated with complete contempt.

Here’s more reaction from Twitter…

She’s in a much more charitable mood than I am, but yes, I still hope the panel is a success. I will say that having her miss the festivities will dampen my enthusiasm a lot, though. Hopefully the other panelists will stand up and talk about this during their allotted time. They won’t pull the plug once it’s started…at least I wouldn’t think so.

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  • Gamergater #7230

    You know, Ralph, I’d be perfectly happy to see the entire panel boycott the event in light of what has happened. Would make a great story: “Panel boycotts SXSW after organisers demand censorship of bully victims”

    • http://TheRalphRetort.com/ TheRalphRetort.com

      Yea, I wouldn’t be opposed to that myself, to be honest.

    • Ridnarhtim

      But you know they’d make the savepoint panelists the bad guys again. “GamerGate scum told to remove harassing comments, throws temper tantrum, boycotts panel.”

      I think they should use the panel to discuss these events. An SXSW panel all about SXSW’s censorship.

      • scemar

        They’ll always try to spin it their way.

    • Ali Radicali

      TBH I think it’d be counterproductive. A cancelled event is very easy to spin as a failure. Nah, let the remnants of the panel get the message out, inform the audience of SXS(J)W’s treatment of minority women. I think that would do a lot more damage in the long run.

  • FlameBeast

    this is so horrible and such BS! I feel so sorry for her to waste her damn time with these idiots. I was really looking forward to what she was gonna say at the panel. Fuck sxsw and hamburger harper!

  • Splattergrunt

    She should just drop on in the #savepoint panel anyway. #SXSW lost all credibility when they caved initially.

  • AStereotypicalGamer

    This is just illogical. What point is there to bowing to Harper’s demands? She would’ve cancelled the panel and badmouthed SXSW on Twitter? Given how many people attended this “Anti-Harassment” summit, how much business would they realistically lose? Now that it’s over with, what is the point of asking Carrera to delete her tweets? Who are they appeasing? What benefit is there to doing so?

    I could understand if they thought the panels would give them business, but what is the worst case scenario of Randi Harper’s ire? Twenty people ask for refunds? A games journalist prints her lies and gamers laugh and go catch a concert at the convention instead? They have nothing to gain from asking for censorship.

    I can only conclude they want to depress turnout to the SavePoint panel; not necessarily because they’re drinking the SJW Kool-Aid, but so they can have an excuse not to have any of these people back next year. Still, they could have had the class to refund Carrera for her travel expenses after pulling this shit the day before her appearance.

  • MrSonicAdvance

    From SJWs always Lie – Vox Day
    Do not resign! You must always keep in mind that their real goal is not to formally purge you, but to
    encourage you to quit on your own. That allows them to publicly wash their hands of the affair and claim that your decision to leave was not their fault.
    They will often enlist more reasonable allies to approach you and tell you that it’s not possible for you to continue any more, they will appeal to your desire to avoid conflict as well as to the good of the organization, and they will go on endlessly about the supreme importance of an amicable departure. Don’t fall for it. Don’t do their dirty work for them. Make them take the full responsibility for throwing you out, thereby ensuring they have to suffer the unpredictable long-term consequences of their actions.

  • ty2010

    Would have been better to go off social media before hand, given a good presentation and sperged after :b

  • Social Justice Whitey

    ,,,well I guess I’ll just have to observe one of her presentations available on Pornhub to quench my uh, “academic” thirst,,,
    But seriously, a rocket scientist pornstar has to be the ultimate SJW nightmare,,,no wonder those sucka fools flee before her and duck into their safe spaces,,,

    • Dave The Sandman

      well said mate

    • Brian Hull

      that’s also why they won’t debate Milo. it takes a militant feminist who’s not afraid to call out middle eastern cultural misogyny like Julie Bindel to actually debate. Oh who else won’t be caught dead debating? Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian. gosh golly i do wonder why

  • Mr0303

    If anything at least I hope the interview with the Honey Badgers still happens. Mercedes will have a lot to say about that situation.

  • JasonC5

    Remember: “rules for thee but not for me”

    People who say violence against these people isn’t the answer haven’t been paying the fuck attention as to what’s been going on in the past several years.

  • Chris R

    Should’ve shown up anyway and make them forcibly remove her

  • http://www.isothedragonking.deviantart.com Iso

    How can people keep on sucking up to “Hamburger Helper Harper”?! God damn it, she’s a fraud and people still wish to be a white knight for her when she’s like the village bike, everyone’s had a go.

    • http://g.e-hentai.org GamesGoodMeGood

      Because she’s a feminist.

      Despite more and more people pushing back against modern feminism, the ideology still holds a vast amount of power due to the stigma of being labelled a “sexist” or “misogynist”. People are still afraid to really go against it.

      Not only that, but these cunts are always backed by and supported by the mainstream media and news outlets.

  • scemar

    We already saw the media working together to make the pathetic “no one cares” harassment panel look like it matters.

    And now this.
    The organizers are actually expecting people to censor the content they post personally on their own social media accounts? What’s next, gonna censor what they say anywhere?

    Yes that is censorship and of the highest caliber.

    They should only have the right to monitor what happens in their event, not everything someone’s ever done.

    Ultimately this seems like a lose-lose scenario.
    But ask what is worse, not being at some corrupt panel, or letting the SJW have you by the balls and not let you speak the truth altogether?
    I’d worry about what might happen tomorrow, or to other people, or in other situations if people cave in to SJW.
    Giving them any inch of control over our lives just means they will abuse it and seek to censor us more.

  • Jak Constantine

    Let’s email the Sponsors. Give them the disrespectful nod they deserve.

  • D-Bone

    Glad she stood up to the Bullshit. This whole thing was a failure from the beginning when Harper was involved.

  • Brian Hull

    fun seeing how they try to spin the failure of all these panels. “another way for men to ignore women!” yeah women didn’t go see the panels either dumbass.

  • Michael P

    She shouldn’t have backed out, fuck these people. She should’ve deleted the tweets, done the panel then put ’em right back up again.

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