John W Campbell award renamed

She is incredibly obnoxious. She isn't just insulting Campbell--that's rude but that's not as bad as what she really said--which is that Campbell was immoral for being a European who championed European culture (especially at a time when whites were the vast majority of the audience) and therefore, his editorial choices were wrong and those who liked his editorial choices have bad taste-this from someone who was not the intended audience of Campbell's writing. He was not writing or making editorial choices for Chinese women.

Furthermore, since her specialty is English literature and history, she is basically suggesting she knows best about European culture.
Imagine if someone from Europe went to China, was accepted in the society, and then won some honor and turned around to say that Chinese had bad tastes because they were too Chinese-centric.
That is what she did.

I would assume if he was such an evil man they would never have named the award after him in the early 70s OR they thought his artistic works and decisions were separate from his political beliefs. Perhaps they aren't, but for her to slam him as she did indicates a real hostility to indigenous European culture and the idea of self-determination.

The NYT article implied it was changed because of her speech.
But still, the point remains, WHY was the award named after him in the first place? 1972 was well after the start of civil rights movement. Why was the award named that in 75? 85? 95?

Obviously it was because back then they didn't think his opinions equaled genocide and or they felt that his literary contributions were more significant and far-reaching than his opinions.
But for her to have no context of the history of US demographics and to call him a fascist (if he was-he would have faced much greater scrutiny in the US by the government and others) is so willfully ignorant. It's her beliefs that are so terrible--she believes Han Chinese have a right to self-determination but even when the European readership of sci-fi magazines was majority European, even then he was wrong to favor that heritage he belonged to!
It's like if she said Tibetans are assholes because in 1950 they didn't have signage in their monasteries that were in cantonese. That's the kind of asshole point she is making and she did not backtrack from it.