The people we now call Social Justice Warriors have (until a very short while ago) completely controlled the science fiction and fantasy publishing industry, and the result was something out of a GamerGater’s fever dream. If you were a new or mid-list author who didn’t espouse the “right” political views, you had no chance of being published. Even Orson Scott Card, quite possibly the most popular sci-fi author alive today and whose Ender’s Game has sat at or near the top of the bestseller lists for over a decade, faced massive boycotts and organized campaigns for his beliefs on gay marriage.
Almost any author who didn’t tow the SJW line was out, and that line moved further and further the more the SJWs consolidated their grip on power. Last January, an editor at Tor, the largest science fiction publishing company, called for a quota where every book must contain at least one transsexual character. This February, SJWs started a campaign telling people not to read any straight, white, and male authors at all.
What happened when the SJWs took over is an abject lesson for the gaming industry: sales of science fiction books utterly tanked. What was once a thriving genre is almost utterly dead.
For the same reason that no one wants to play Depression Quest, no one wants to read boring books that shove fringe values down the readers’ throatS. You can see the top sellers in Science Fiction for 2012 here. Every book on the bestseller list was either five or more years old or a Star Wars/Halo tie-in novel. The lone exception, A Rising Thunder, was actually published by conservative publishing house Baen Books. The top selling book, Ender’s Game, is now over 20 years old. When it came out, Clinton was still in his first term, the biggest game system around was the Super Nintendo, and the world was still astonished at the graphics in the game Myst.
The rot was at its worst in the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the most prestigious awards in the industry. Awards that used to go to titles like Dune, Ringworld, and Neuromancer became the province of titles like The Lady Astronaut of Mars and the execrable If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love. The latter is almost a parody of SJW thought: it’s a short story about a gay paleontologist who gets beaten up by working class whites, whose fiancee (It’s not a hundred percent clear why she’s marrying a gay man) fantasizes about him turning into a dinosaur and killing them. By 2014, books like SJW novel Ancillary Justice (Slate boasts that it “forces the reader to confront gender“) were beating out the likes of Neil Gaiman and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.
Followers of GamerGate will immediately see the parallels: a self-declared “elite” pushing an agenda on a hostile audience. Heavy promotion of creators that no consumer enjoys, while anyone who doesn’t have the right political beliefs is shunned and ignored. And like Gamergate, there was a backlash.
Considering the entire point of this thread is to paint liberals/millenials in a negative light, your bias is quite transparent. Why aren't you making the case that not all so-called "SJWs" are liberals?
