If you encounter speech you find distasteful, be it in the form of a book, movie, music, or internet posting — be it sexism, racism, or some other -ism — shouldn't you counter it with more speech?

Huh. For me, only sometimes because I truly believe the adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity, particularly for things of this nature.

Now, there are lots of things where I think yes, speech is the best, surest, and most rational form of countering.

But in this case, given the clearly abysmal sales of the original run, why give any attention at all? It's just fuel to a fire that, to my mind, only profits the author and DH because sheer curiosity is going to prompt people to look at and maybe even buy something they may never have even been aware of before.

It's a double-edged sword, like most things in life.

Again -- completely existential because there ain't a damned thing wrong with What I'm saying is exactly what the post says: "I got a real problem with these books. Here's my problem with them. Here's why I want Dark Horse to lose their shirts when they republish."

Not a single thing :)