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The Guardian reports on a new study which has found that
The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism, according to a new report that found less than 2% of more than 2,000 SF stories published last year were by black writers.
The report, published by the magazine Fireside Fiction, states that just 38 of the 2,039 stories published in 63 magazines in 2015 were by black writers. With the bulk of the industry based in the US, more than half of all speculative fiction publications the report considered did not publish a single original story by a black author. "The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000321%," says the report.
The editor of Fireside Fiction goes on to say...
"Fiction, we have a problem. We all know this. We do. We don't need numbers to see that, like everywhere in our society, marginalisation of black people is still a huge problem in publishing ... The entire system is built to benefit whiteness – and to ignore that is to bury your head in the flaming garbage heap of history."
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @09:27PM
I want to see a study of how many black musicians sing about money.
I want to see a study of how many country musicians sing about trucks.
I want to see a study of how many female musicians sing about breakups.
Fuck your ism. Every genre is biased.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:28AM
I want to see a study of how many Slashdot/SN posters rant about SJWs.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @09:28AM
Whats certain is that the ratio of SJW ranters to non-SJW ranters increases over time, because the SJW ranters work hard to create echo chambers wherever they go, using proof by repeated assertion and other sophistry, which drives away the non-SJW ranters who generally avoid echo chambers since they like debating, only to find delusional nutjobs working hard to ruin the place by making tribalism and irrationality ubiquitous and by being hostile towards rationality and differing opinions.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday August 13 2016, @10:01PM
Whats certain is that the ratio of SJW ranters to non-SJW ranters increases over time
Maybe in other places, but here the non-SJW (or anti-SJW) ranters have the edge. They are often the first post, they are certainly the more ranting of posters, and their arguments, such as they are, simply reflect that they are unable to imagine that others have not had the same choices, opportunities or upbringing they have had. Usually, in any story of this sort, one has to wade below their rants before being able to read any intelligent discussions of the topic in hand.