Explain the Sad Puppies (Science Fiction Controversy)

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I think this thread was where I first heard about the Sad Puppies (and Chuck Tingle as well):

2016 Hugo Awards: The Sad & Rabid Puppies are back

Yeah, it’s all Rabid Puppies this year. As it was last year, actually. Last year, the Sad Puppies put together a slate of works they thought deserved the award. Their complaint about the Hugos was that they had become a bastion for “political correctness.” Yet when asked to give examples, they could only point to one story that got a nomination and didn’t win (and couldn’t possibly have won). Any listing of Hugo winners showed there were plenty of stories that they would have loved, but the…