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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Agreed, I think the main problem people have is the nutty fringe that go ape if you don't include <minority de jour> characters, when you hear a lot of that you tend to notice the characters that are there more.
I remember reading James Alan Gardeners Expendable series back when it was released in the late nineties and just thought they were good books, re-reading them last year I couldn't help but notice the PC/diversity slant - Still good books though  .
So, to sum up, I don't think it's the inclusion of the characters in books that is the problem, it's the shouty PC brigade that insist that all books should be diverse. |
While I've got the books, thanks to the ORM freebie sale last year, I haven't read them. Are these "diversity" characters saying/doing things that break the plot, or is it just that "oh that one is black, and that other one is hispanic, and there's someone from southeast asia, and someone is gay"? Or is it that you're looking for subtlely, like Robert Heinlein's protagonist in Starship Troopers is Filipino, but there's only like 3-5 sentences in the entire book that spell it out?
I think it works both ways, though. I am fairly liberal, and when I read some John Ringo recently, he flipped me out of the story when he started complaining about how there aren't any station wagons any more because of unintended consequences of the liberals and their CAFE standards, and in another book, a 13 year-old twice made Michael Moore fat jokes. Really? Do 13 year-olds even know who Michael Moore is?