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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) by GungnirSniper on Friday August 12 2016, @10:47PM
Just as men and women prefer different things, so do can different races and ethnicities prefer different things on some sort of genetic or biological level. At some point in the distant past each group had a small nucleus, and likely some of the associated qualities we know today in modern groups could be found in those ancient people.
Could this be why in the most general of terms, some groups and cultures prefer to follow rules, or prefer dancing and music, or living in the cold?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @11:00PM
Which cultures prefer to pretend to follow rules and lie about breaking rules? Alllllllll of them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:03AM
> Just as men and women prefer different things, so do can different races and ethnicities prefer different things on some sort of genetic or biological level.
So false on all levels. Biological determinism is the modern phrenology.
Humans, above all other animals, have supremely plastic brains. Our ability to shape our intelligence, our preferences, our skills to fit the environment is the most powerful tool that humans have. If someone can lose 90% of their brain and still live a relatively normal life, [sciencealert.com] then the socialization of a healthy brain for something as minor as liking science fiction stories is more than just easy, its inconsequential.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @10:00AM
>If someone can lose 90% of their brain and still live a relatively normal life...
...he still doesn't write fiction, or program computers, or study nuclear physics, or invent stuff. Which is precisely the point you miss. Is it deliberate, or not enough % of brain left to understand the matter? :)