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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I read a fair amount of YA fiction and if you look at my favorite author list, it's pretty obvious that the vast majority are to the left of the political scale.
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I can't quibble with that. But there's a difference between popular authors being liberal (aren't so many creative types?) and accusing publishers of only publishing politically correct leftists.
Stephen King is very liberal, and his first book was published in the seventies, well before this was a concern.
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I just finished The Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan. Rick Riordan is a talented writer, but that particular series was so politically correct that it was hard to stay in the flow of the narrative...
I really like Riordan's other books, which do tend towards political correctness, but this was just so over the top.
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Granted, that series sounds pretty bad. But Riordan is an established author who probably has more say over what gets edited in his books. He didn't build his name on that series. So again, you can't say the publisher only publishes him because he is so PC.
Also, younger people are more liberal than older people, so it would make sense that to an older generation their books seem insufferably politically correct. They are giving the audience what they want.
It could be that your preference of YA books skews your view of how PC modern publishing is.