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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Two things:
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.
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.
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Did he have the hair to back up his supposition? That was the first thing I thought of when you said Ancient Aliens.