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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I thought the overall point was that ill-informed social media mobs were causing havoc in YA publishing. That point, I could agree with. It was all the conclusions the author of the article leaped to that I have issues with.
I'm not so sure political correctness is taking over the YA world. I think it would be easy enough to call changes you don't like agree with political correctness.
If a book about a gay character is an unexpected hit and there's a flood of gay-themed books, is that PC taking over the industry, or the market doing what it does? When wizards or vampires took over the industry, was that political correctness too?
I honestly don't care about awards. But the way the puppies handled the Hugos felt skeevy. Why not just create alternate awards?
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I guess we had different views of what the over-all point was.
Of course, the PC is not the same as trying to ride the wave of a popular theme. Personally, I tend to view PC as akin to the old utopia books, aka "wouldn't it be wonderful if everything worked the way I think it ought to". Like the old utopia books, PC tends to require that human nature change. That's why it's call Politically Correct, rather than the way things actually work. Like the old utopia books, they tend to not be very popular as a whole.