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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 Saturday August 13 2016, @05:57AM
> Throwing the term SJW around at every opportunity is no better than the people who will find racism, sexism or other form of discrimination in anything and everything.
Funny how accusations of being an SJW are soooo much more common than cases of the later.
Why is that?
Oh yeah, because "SJW" is a term invented to shut down criticism rather than address it. Just like feminazi, race traitor, self-hating jew, cuck, rino, tree-hugger and virtue signaling.
The entire reason lgw even posted was to tell people to shut up, that he does not want to even see anyone talk about this issue. And his post was the first damn post on the story. Its funny how the people most likely to complain about political correctness being some sort of force for censorship are also the very first to deploy their caricatured version of political correctness for exactly that purpose. I guess funny isn't the right word. Utterly predictable is more like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @09:12AM
I've never once actually seen an example of the latter. Every time I've been presented with "evidence" that such people exist all I get pointed to is an example of somebody disagreeing with a person who just so happens to be calling them an SJW.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @06:53PM
Oh yeah, because "SJW" is a term invented to shut down criticism rather than address it. Just like feminazi, race traitor, self-hating jew, cuck, rino, tree-hugger and virtue signaling.
Misuses of the terms "racist", "sexist", "misogynist", etc. are much the same. The stupidity is coming from both camps.