Aug 12, 2024 11:04 PM
(This post was last modified: Aug 13, 2024 08:18 PM by C C.)
But the speculative fiction market was "inclusive" in its own constructive way long before today's toxic variety of Woke swept the world. Even the television industry had an example in the 1960s via Star Trek. (And anytime you saw initials like D.C. Fontana, you knew what that strategy was meant to conceal.)
Back then women and non-white authors could get an easier start in the science fiction and fantasy publishing industry than anywhere else. (Leigh Brackett's jaw dropping interview from 1975). And that includes Black LGBT+ members like the enormously talented Samuel R. Delany, who had his first novel published in 1962.
Thus, it's hardly surprising that legacy Sci-Fi is so hard hit today, since it had its doors wide open decades prior. Quite inevitable that those voluntary good intentions would eventually be exploited by the "divide and conquer" movements of the future. (Today's crusaders know that you've got to completely destroy the old oppressive system before you can build a people's paradise. One legacy institution down, more to go!
)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
JON DEL ARROZ
https://youtu.be/jvcSwTJmSpw
VIDEO EXCERPTS: They're not looking for good stories anymore, they're looking for identities. I was talking to one of Amazon's top reviewers -- who's a really good analyst of books. He was telling me that he was watching somebody's YouTube review of a book, and it was like: "This story's got LGBT+ romance in it. Yay!"
They don't tell you whether it's a good story, whether there's anything interesting in it. They just go off on how the social justice checkbox is there. I don't want to read it now, because it doesn't tell you anything about the story.
This is exactly what these people do. They have been publishing hacks -- subpar writers for years, getting by because they have a certain skin color or a certain sexual identity [that fits a quota policy].
And they broadcast that about the book and then you're supposed to buy it, or you're a bigot. That's kind of how they do things.
Naturally that doesn't do well for sales, because story quality is no longer what matters. [...] They promote products with race baiting and sexuality baiting. You can see they're on panels of people you've never heard of...
[...] In 2020 the company decided to replace the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. They went full diversity, and you never go full diversity [unless you want to go broke]. Sheree Renée Thomas became their editor in 2020, at the height of BLM.
[...] The Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine has not published anything since January. So since she took over it's kind of just gone downhill, and people have been complaining that they can't even get their subscriptions fulfilled. It's been a nightmare. Authors are not getting paid -- I don't know that that's her fault, or if that's somebody else's duties in there.
You let these diversity hires in [for the pure sake of moral policy and public image posturing] and the operations go to hell [because the company cares more about appearances than skill levels]. So the magazine's quality has dropped as a result, and people have noticed it. Sales have slumped, and issues started coming out late for the first time in their history.
[...] This is August as we're making this video, nothing's come out. People over on the liberal Network Blue Sky are being like, hey, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine is kind of just gone.
[...] I scrolled through F&SFM's Twitter -- they have not made a post since March. So it looks like this magazine just died on the vine after their diversity hire just wrecked things.
[...] We talked about the Science Fiction Writers of America imploding, because nobody's volunteering there anymore. They've all courted the woke agenda, they've all tried very, very hard to virtue signal skin color and their politics -- all this stuff.
I made a post earlier today about another magazine. They're posting this as their selling point. They've got pictures of their contributors and you'll notice no white males.
Every magazine is just representing this smaller and smaller demographic of people that they're trying to virtue signal towards -- I guess, Black Queers in this instance. There's just nobody out there [but those small demographics) who wants to buy this stuff.
There's not enough Black Queer authors out there to actually fill these magazines, because there's just not enough of the population who is writing at at a professional level. So you're just killing your own brand, you're killing everything with this DEI stuff that excludes everybody [but the marginalized population groups]...
Another DEI disaster as The Fantasy & Science Fiction publication dies after hiring Woke editor
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jvcSwTJmSpw
Back then women and non-white authors could get an easier start in the science fiction and fantasy publishing industry than anywhere else. (Leigh Brackett's jaw dropping interview from 1975). And that includes Black LGBT+ members like the enormously talented Samuel R. Delany, who had his first novel published in 1962.
Thus, it's hardly surprising that legacy Sci-Fi is so hard hit today, since it had its doors wide open decades prior. Quite inevitable that those voluntary good intentions would eventually be exploited by the "divide and conquer" movements of the future. (Today's crusaders know that you've got to completely destroy the old oppressive system before you can build a people's paradise. One legacy institution down, more to go!
)- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
JON DEL ARROZ
https://youtu.be/jvcSwTJmSpw
VIDEO EXCERPTS: They're not looking for good stories anymore, they're looking for identities. I was talking to one of Amazon's top reviewers -- who's a really good analyst of books. He was telling me that he was watching somebody's YouTube review of a book, and it was like: "This story's got LGBT+ romance in it. Yay!"
They don't tell you whether it's a good story, whether there's anything interesting in it. They just go off on how the social justice checkbox is there. I don't want to read it now, because it doesn't tell you anything about the story.
This is exactly what these people do. They have been publishing hacks -- subpar writers for years, getting by because they have a certain skin color or a certain sexual identity [that fits a quota policy].
And they broadcast that about the book and then you're supposed to buy it, or you're a bigot. That's kind of how they do things.
Naturally that doesn't do well for sales, because story quality is no longer what matters. [...] They promote products with race baiting and sexuality baiting. You can see they're on panels of people you've never heard of...
[...] In 2020 the company decided to replace the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. They went full diversity, and you never go full diversity [unless you want to go broke]. Sheree Renée Thomas became their editor in 2020, at the height of BLM.
[...] The Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine has not published anything since January. So since she took over it's kind of just gone downhill, and people have been complaining that they can't even get their subscriptions fulfilled. It's been a nightmare. Authors are not getting paid -- I don't know that that's her fault, or if that's somebody else's duties in there.
You let these diversity hires in [for the pure sake of moral policy and public image posturing] and the operations go to hell [because the company cares more about appearances than skill levels]. So the magazine's quality has dropped as a result, and people have noticed it. Sales have slumped, and issues started coming out late for the first time in their history.
[...] This is August as we're making this video, nothing's come out. People over on the liberal Network Blue Sky are being like, hey, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine is kind of just gone.
[...] I scrolled through F&SFM's Twitter -- they have not made a post since March. So it looks like this magazine just died on the vine after their diversity hire just wrecked things.
[...] We talked about the Science Fiction Writers of America imploding, because nobody's volunteering there anymore. They've all courted the woke agenda, they've all tried very, very hard to virtue signal skin color and their politics -- all this stuff.
I made a post earlier today about another magazine. They're posting this as their selling point. They've got pictures of their contributors and you'll notice no white males.
Every magazine is just representing this smaller and smaller demographic of people that they're trying to virtue signal towards -- I guess, Black Queers in this instance. There's just nobody out there [but those small demographics) who wants to buy this stuff.
There's not enough Black Queer authors out there to actually fill these magazines, because there's just not enough of the population who is writing at at a professional level. So you're just killing your own brand, you're killing everything with this DEI stuff that excludes everybody [but the marginalized population groups]...
Another DEI disaster as The Fantasy & Science Fiction publication dies after hiring Woke editor