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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The difference is that PC now has been pushed to a more extreme level that might be the norm in some circles, but isn't the norm is society as a whole.
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1: If it is the norm for young adults and these books are by definition young adult books, then can you really say that YA publishing is too PC? Too PC for who? Their target audience?
2: What you see as PC, I might not see that way. Was having a black captain on Deep Space Nine PC? Is having Captain Shakespeare as a gay character in Stardust PC? Is having a female lead character in The Golden Compass/Northern Lights PC?
None of these felt that way to me. Your Rick Riordan example, I could follow because it had such a large number of these characters in a single work to the point that it pulls you out of the fiction.
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I didn't read the article to say that _all_ YA were PC to this level.
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I'm only debating/discussing with you. That article was awful. I quit in about the middle of it. Not because I disagree with the author's viewpoints (as mentioned, I can concede his title at least), but because he made the same mistake every episode of Ancient Aliens makes: He takes a conceit and piles supposition after supposition on top of it, trying to prove points that the evidence just doesn't support.