Check my comment. I now wonder if the "puppy show" Q wrote about - or something he sort of maybe used as one part of the comparison - might have been the Sad Puppies fight to save a certain old science fiction award from obscurity it has by now mostly fallen into due to having been taken over by people who pay more attention to rewarding "politically correct" authors than ones who can actually write.

Very small fight that got an proportionally over the top backlash from MSM.