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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @10:12PM
I don't know what decade you're thinking of, but here in the 2010s, it's geeky white men who have a problem integrating into society. Try being a white man looking for work and being rejected time after time by women, indians, and black men hiring women, indians, and black men.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @11:02PM
Where's the -1 Inconvenient Truth mod?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:10AM
Right next to the "welcome to finally competing on an even playing field" mod.
"When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:30AM
Women hiring Women, Indians hiring Indians, Blacks hiring Blacks. You call that equality? It's a racial caste system. You can try to find White Men who hire White Men but you won't find any because the White Men got laid off and there's no one left to hire White Men.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:39AM
When the tech field is still overwhelmingly white male, [vox.com] you are just a whiner who can't accept his own inadequacies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:47AM
You're the overconfident elitist who's next to get laid off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:55AM
> You're the overconfident elitist who's next to get laid off.
I recognized my own weaknesses a long time ago and capitalized on my strengths by becoming an independent contractor. I don't get laid off, I fire clients.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:15AM
That's so funny. You already got laid off, and now you're self-unemployed with delusions of power.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @01:21AM
That's right, keep wallowing in your self-pity.
Even if I were delusional, your claim about not catching a break because you are a white male is not supported by the data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:49AM
and there's no one left to hire White Men.
Balderdash, my young neophite! Just check out your local Craig's List! Look for ads specifying "Men seeking men", and then filter for whiteyness. Of course, the jobs are usually temporary, often just a "one-off", and you have to specify whether you are top or bottom. Good luck with your future employment!
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:57AM
Sometimes there is reverse -ism. This is totally off topic, but I could not imagine being a man trying to find a girlfriend. Being a woman trying to find a boyfriend is utterly a walk in the park (of course, finding Mr. Right is not guaranteed especially after the sieve of “the talk”). To completely fess up, I've been told I'm a 6 or 7 ish out of 10 by a guy I trust as a friend and could be a solid 7 if I got back into shape and really toned certain muscle groups. (There is no chance i'd bulk up since my testosterone level doesn't even register on labwork.)
Most guys will crawl all over me if they think they have a chance of getting in my panties, which I honestly think is flattering. I was also once championed by a white knight. Again, the white knight type reveals himself as not some virtuous protector of womankind, but a guy who thinks women are damsels in distress, prizes to be won.
It's a complete day vs. night between when I'm pretending to be a boy and when I'm myself. People in general just treat me better as a woman, but of course being openly trans on the internet means that I'll be seen as a man in a dress who uses super SJW powers to intimidate people into gendering me female. It's just something that happens IRL completely spontaneously, and it's at least 50% body language (one of the things I'm unsuccessfully trying to impress on a newer transitioner I know who isn't nearly as lucky with appearance as I am). I'm certain that a lot of people who only know me as a boy suspect I'm a female to male type.
But I'm a big asshole sexist racist when I'm a boy, and I don't recall ever making those things parameters of the emulation. I would accept that my boy personality has developed a “Hofstadter-Moebius loop.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @03:09AM
People in general just treat me better as a woman
A Few Notes on the Culture [vavatch.co.uk]
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 13 2016, @04:00AM
Speaking of science fiction! I'll read in more detail later. It sounds intriguing while not directly invoking Atlantis.
But, if we assume all other things being equal, we can observe this in the ratio of m2f type transgenders and f2m type transgenders.
I'm not going to pretend all things are equal, but it's interesting to consider now that we seem to have a profusion of m2f types (one trans woman recently complained to me that among people near the age of 20 it's almost a popular thing to declare that one is genderfluid or female, and I've seen for myself that many of these people cannot possibly be suffering gender dysphoria as I know it) and f2m types remain invisible (erased even) and few and far between (but not unrepresented in bathroom drama).
Just be careful of buying into the feminist theory of socially constructed gender and/or sexuality. I'm not going to discount the possibility of one day having psychotectic therapy or the idea that gender is irrelevant once the spirit leaves these meatbags (the brain being an organ like the heart or a toe that rots and disappears).
At any rate, thanks for the link!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @03:44AM
> Most guys will crawl all over me if they think they have a chance of getting in my panties, which I honestly think is flattering.
Yes, it is flattering that what men find most valuable about you is what is in your pants. The same thing that 50% of the entire world has in their pants too.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 13 2016, @04:15AM
Well, I speak from a position of initial insecurity about passing or ever finding love (at least the carnal kind). Men who only value what's in my pants don't get far, whether they're looking for vagoo or sausage. I just find it flattering how many people take me for a cisfemale at first. Somebody looking for sausage will only know to suspect me if they know what to look for. And really that works out better anyhow. The last thing I want to do is deceive somebody.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @04:24AM
So, the take away from what you wrote is that your opinion on the issue has no applicability to the topic at hand.
In other words, cool story bro!
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 13 2016, @06:00AM
This is totally off topic
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @09:42AM
No. "Reverse racism" is the most fucking retarded thing I have ever heard. Racism is racism, being towards the group that still has its supremacy codified into law does not make it "reverse", its still fucking racism. What "reverse racism" really means is "How DARE you disrespect your master, you filthy nigger".