tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post3670281608714601882..comments2023-10-31T05:22:37.723-07:00Comments on The Right Geek: Guest Post: The New Fascists, by Jim McCoyThe Right Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09649094767960738820noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-58661690327453602442016-03-15T14:15:42.632-07:002016-03-15T14:15:42.632-07:00The diversity confrontation highlights the same wa...The diversity confrontation highlights the same way that scam is perpetrated in the SFF community. The same people who insist on it for any cultural expression skewed white, male or heterosexual never insist on diversity for any cultural expression that is top-heavy with non-whites, women or gay folks. Intersectional ideology reveals itself for the KKK it is, since their so-called "principles" are never applied even-handedly but instead only to and away from friendly or unfriendly racial-sexual groups.<br /><br />You will never in a thousand years hear these people call for diversity in Egyptian television, delta blues, rap, romance fiction, Cosmopolitan, the NBA, middle-weight boxing, Bollywood or any other precious domain. Diversity is a principle without principle and is instead a bull's-eye on the backs of straight, white, Western men.<br /><br />My favorite part is this insistence on diversity in SFF to somehow make it more real. Wouldn't the better solution be to not write SFF? People read SFF to get away from the real world. Any unexplained walk-on's to satisfy some flavor-of-the-week tokenism is going to yank people right out of the stories. The one place you could go to get away from WW II 1942-5 was in the pages of Astounding SF, which fictionally acted as if it wasn't even there.<br /><br />50 years from now - if anyone even remembers it - Ann Leckie's hilarious pandering to gay feminism's post-structuralist linguistic "cure" for heterosexuality in Ancillary Justice is going to be a standout taught in writing classes about what not to do to instantly date yourself. The fact she was so obviously unaware of what she was doing was just icing on the cake. That's right; women's and gender studies space opera plays about as well as pro wrestling space opera. Why not throw in ESPN too, or Spanx?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004333519370593118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-14823771767188573902016-03-15T10:08:23.019-07:002016-03-15T10:08:23.019-07:00Thanks for the correction! I will edit the post ac...Thanks for the correction! I will edit the post accordingly.The Right Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09649094767960738820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-49530634048570179652016-03-15T10:02:08.770-07:002016-03-15T10:02:08.770-07:00It wasn't the University of Chicago. It was th...It wasn't the University of Chicago. It was the University of Illinois AT Chicago.<br /><br />There's a huge difference. U. of C. is one of the world's top universities, home of nuclear fission, and has always maintained a very strong belief in freedom of speech. They recently put out a statement that students there should expect to encounter unfamiliar and/or offensive ideas and shouldn't be pussies about it. (I paraphrase.)<br /><br />U of I Chicago is a glorified community college, full of people getting certifications in order to qualify for political hack government jobs.<br />Trimegistushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17421300991534803449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588236197446203618.post-7064849585833299332016-03-14T20:04:27.786-07:002016-03-14T20:04:27.786-07:00A suggested name for the brownshirt wannabes: Bern...A suggested name for the brownshirt wannabes: Bernshirts.J. C. Salomonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16499605133549720090noreply@blogger.com