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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I guess we had different views of what the over-all point was.
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I'm going based on the title of the article "How Never-Satisfied Social Justice Mobs Are Ruining YA Book Publishing"
I could agree with that statement. Well, maybe not 'ruining' but causing the occasional problem anyway.
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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.
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I understand what political correctness
is. My point is that it is possible that what you view as a wave of political correctness taking over YA fiction could just be the rapidly changing viewpoint/reality/norms of the younger generation these books are intended for.
Your Rick Riordan example is pretty extreme. But my guess would be that it stands out because it is outside the norm.