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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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?
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More the opposite, the entire plot of each book is completely dependent on the characters being "diverse", good books, well worth a read.
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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?
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Never heard of CAFE standards, had to google it. Not sure how it got rid of station wagons but SUV's were alright, possibly more reading required.
Have you read the "oh, John Ringo No!" review
