"Sensitivity readers" are like political commissars in the Soviet Union. They are there to make sure that political dogma is not contradicted in any way.
I remember cruising through the writer's forums on Quora a few years ago, and reading the mournful post of a young woman who wanted SO to become a writer. Her wish... "When I finish my book, I will have a sensitivity reader go through it!" -This said with such adoration for the concept, a sparkly new one at the time, as though writing with safety scissors was the high point of the exercise, and not the exercise itself. Women think very, very differently. This whole SFWA fiasco was inevitable once the next gen of women writers got into the game. (The first gen went there in spite of it being uncool and weird, because the call was strong and they didn't mind being labeled as odd. The next gen saw the first gen and thought.., "Oh, that's what cool girls do...!" It's been all down hill from there.) If you are reading this post, it means that it has been edited down to something which was able to sneak past the YT censorship gauntlet.
@@MarkOakleyComics Not all women. Just the silly little girls that never graduated the HS in their heads. Ever read the play Cyrano de Bergerac? I'll be 10 years dead before some pink haired fr**k with a bad attitude about life touches a word I write! "I may not climb to no great height, but I climb alone!" All this is proving to me that I waited far too long to attempt to publish. I won't be published this lifetime. Maybe someone will find the manuscript in a drawer when they clean out my house? I'm not even sure I am going to bother to print it out. I couldn't have foreseen the madness of this era. (at least, I don't think so!)
@MarkOakleyComics I don't think it's necessirly a women thing. This really took off aftet American dirt. Which was wiryten by a woman who happened to be white writing a story about Mexicans. Thes elunatucs had an issue with it God knows why
"The literary world is dying" I don't disagree. But there is a silver lining of practicality: even if nothing new was ever published again, starting today...there would still be more books than you could ever read during several lifetimes. So...I don't feel like I am missing out on anything by avoiding the new stuff, since I am still trying to "catch up" on classic stuff and vintage stuff.
This is the second comment about this: The usual suspect, according to you, with the usual crime…of stealing non-black stories? Social media is really making folks stupid.
@@kirk1701 well yes blacks steal from white people all the time. all that farm land in Africa before whites was an open air toilet. the whites turned it into productive farmland that the blacks are stealing and ruining.
@@Red_Devil_2011 Planet 'erf?' Ohhh, 'planet Earth.' I think. Unless the 'usual suspects' come from this planet 'erf.' And about the usual crime of theft: Yes, we already established these 'usual suspects' take stories by whyte women and create nothing original themselves. Every story out there about 'those usual suspects,' every story as leading characters is from a wyte woman.
@@kirk1701 it's called 'pattern recognition'. But go on ahead and start doing the jungle-whooping noises about 'muh racism'. At this point absolutely no one cares any more.
Can you imagine if you weren't allowed to display a painting you had made of the Eiffel Tower until a French person had said it was good enough. It's insane yet exactly the same. Or in Seine...
I guess we should be grateful he chose to steal short stories rather than fly passenger jets or pretend to be a surgeon. But he is truly our Black Future writ large.
I have never forgotten how hard it was to break into writing as a career when I started out in the '90s, what with all the gatekeeping and rampant cronyism. Fought hard for years and managed to carve out a career in writing and editorial despite these troubles. But now, thanks to the woke folk, as a white man I no longer have a career at all.
look at it from the other side of the spectrum. in modern russia you can't be a writer if you mention homosexuality in a book. you will be outlawed and deprived of civil rights and all money. and even your name will be erased from the film adaptation, if there is one. the same goes for statements about the government or about the war. i think things are even worse in north korea and china. it's not so bad to live in a democratic country my friend. i prefer to worry about the dominance of leftists in pop culture than about harsh guys taking me to prison for nothing
Weird to me but much of post-modern SF fandom does, in fact, see all sci-fi and fantasy as, BY NATURE, progressive so if you are not woke you cannot legitimately be a sci-fi/fantasy fan or content creator (and you are a terrible person). I have heard this over and over again in chat and comment sections. When I remind them that the legends of speculative fiction, people with names like Lovecraft, Heinlein, Bradbury, and Tolkein, would be regarded as thoroughly Euro-centric, patriotic, conservative, or possibly even (in the case of Tolkein) religious ("perish the thought!") in a Christian sort of way, they go absolutely nuts! Then they follow it up with some weird psychological assessment of each one of those legends to "prove" that they were anomalies and should be disregarded now. I am not making this up!
"Afro-futurism"? It's almost unbelievable how low the science-fiction genre has fallen. The garbage being held up as award-winning science-fiction is absolutely pathetic.
In COMPLETE REGARDS to our current day: It doesn't matter who did what to who in the distant past. When everything is about race, there's always going to be a two-way road of racism, and ultimately a vicious roundabout. We dropped civil oppression in the 50's. We gave alt-lifestylers full rights in 2008. Demanding any further progress is overflowing the pot. We regular people born into a civil age don't deserve to have our world revolved around oversaturation of moot idealism. No one will ever happy. True progress is to, as Morgan Freeman famously said: stop talking about it. We need to move forward as to-each-their-own, red-blooded homo-sapiens. To refute that is simply ...racist. But I guess that's the point.
And most of the root of this goes to the idea that in order for African fiction to be accepted as being worthwhile, it has to be westernized. Because Africans have a long history of mythology and fantasy stories based on African cosmology and culture. But when writing popular fiction for the international market, especially expats from Africa in Europe or America, they have to try and adopt themes and elements of western culture and technology to try and sell it. Keep in mind that the term Afrofuturism itself was coined by a white Author in America. Now does that mean that this Nigerian author plagiarized all of his work? Of course not. And why did the author who is making these claims not go to court and file a lawsuit instead of an ethical complaint? And just for full disclosure the author is a white South African woman who submitted a work to an Anthology of African fiction and from the sound of it, wanted the Nigerian to give it an "African voice". Not my words, those are hers. So it will be interesting to see how this pans out. This also fits in with the DEI craze in Hollywood in trying to pretend African actors can only have "representation" by being in Western fiction and fantasy vs African fiction and fantasy.
NK Jemisin is a hack. I couldn't finish The Inheritance Trilogy. One of the most boring books I've ever had to suffer through. Combat written by someone who has never had any experience with martial arts or combat training. It's a souless mess and I don't understand how it ever got published.
This entire situation reeks of divine judgement. Seriously, to have so many disparate variables line up in such an ironic and humiliating fashion feels like God is directly involved in this smiting.
TRUMP 2024!! We need men to stand up and vote now more than ever. Kamala and her side does not like men, they have already infected our games/media. It will only get worse. Vote so you can make these developers cry.
You could possibly promote and even sell much of Louis Farrakhan's more colorful doctrines such as the Yakub deal as DEI/Woke sci-fi content to the SFWA crowd and get a positive response... maybe even make a few bucks. Didn't Yakub create evil white people in a laboratory? Now THAT is brilliant content!
Ha ha ha ha! Oh, the tragedy is that this was inevitable. Women, when they don't engage their neocortex in earnest, default to base mechanical behavior, and they divide all people into two groups: 1. *Infants* which need to be protected and coddled and controlled, (for their own good, you see). 2. *Snakes* which might hurt the babies and must be crushed with extreme prejudice. Also.., comics and sci-fi and media jobs aren't adventures (the way men see them). No, no. They are *resources,* which must be jealously gate kept. Women have much to offer, I'm sure, but the shift in cultural power is apparently a jerky enough thing that the vehicle of humanity can easily fly over a cliff. I'm not sure there are any advanced cultures which survived this point in their evolution. Oh well... Luckily it only takes a couple hundred thousand years to reset and try again. America was just the latest Atlantis. This post, if you see it, has been edited multiple times to appease the extreme prejudice of the YT double X gate.
I can see him doing it for the SFWA items since they came after him. Zack, EVS, and others that have done the same I can also understand. What bothers me is that it doesn't feel very Christian to have this gloating tone on every other story.
@@jimjam51075 It's never a good Christian look to gloat at the misfortunes of your enemies. But mockery of their ridiculousness is often used by men of God in the Bible (as in the case of Elijah with the priests of Baal on Mt. Carmel). Jesus also used name-calling to mock Herod ("that fox") and the Pharisees ("white-washed sepulchres"). I also realize that Jon, being human, probably feels the need to over-react to personal attacks against his character by the woke tribe since their lies are, in fact, dangerous forms of slander and hyperbole while his commentary, while biting and sarcastic, tends to focus on the inconsistencies and foibles of his woke adversaries' own comments and actions. All web-influencersare shills for their own products. It's a job after all.
@@jimjam51075 Well, that's the thing. It's ALWAYS about his smug sense of self-satisfaction. And knowing he's always going to pitch his book (conveniently eliding the price in the screenshots) BEFORE he says what the story is? ... Yeah, I just talked myself into unsubbing. See yuh.
@jimjam51075 it bothers you it doesn't feel "very chritian"..? You're responding to a guy that literally took the the Lords name in vain in the post your responding to That doesn't bother you though....... Onward Christian Soldier indeed
The shocking part is that anybody still thinks SFWA had any credibility left to lose.
"Sensitivity readers" are like political commissars in the Soviet Union. They are there to make sure that political dogma is not contradicted in any way.
I remember cruising through the writer's forums on Quora a few years ago, and reading the mournful post of a young woman who wanted SO to become a writer. Her wish...
"When I finish my book, I will have a sensitivity reader go through it!" -This said with such adoration for the concept, a sparkly new one at the time, as though writing with safety scissors was the high point of the exercise, and not the exercise itself.
Women think very, very differently.
This whole SFWA fiasco was inevitable once the next gen of women writers got into the game. (The first gen went there in spite of it being uncool and weird, because the call was strong and they didn't mind being labeled as odd. The next gen saw the first gen and thought.., "Oh, that's what cool girls do...!" It's been all down hill from there.)
If you are reading this post, it means that it has been edited down to something which was able to sneak past the YT censorship gauntlet.
They are KGBTQ+ agents. :D
@@MarkOakleyComics Not all women. Just the silly little girls that never graduated the HS in their heads. Ever read the play Cyrano de Bergerac? I'll be 10 years dead before some pink haired fr**k with a bad attitude about life touches a word I write! "I may not climb to no great height, but I climb alone!"
All this is proving to me that I waited far too long to attempt to publish. I won't be published this lifetime. Maybe someone will find the manuscript in a drawer when they clean out my house? I'm not even sure I am going to bother to print it out. I couldn't have foreseen the madness of this era. (at least, I don't think so!)
@MarkOakleyComics I don't think it's necessirly a women thing. This really took off aftet American dirt. Which was wiryten by a woman who happened to be white writing a story about Mexicans. Thes elunatucs had an issue with it God knows why
THANK YOU! I wish more people would start using that term.
"I am the author now" 😄
"Spit on dem, bruddahs!"
Yoooooo
The literary world is dying.
"Everything woke turns to shiet."
Truer words have never been spoken.
It has been dead for a while
@jonaces5968 indeed.
The literary world is fine. Just get out of the establishment circles.
"The literary world is dying" I don't disagree. But there is a silver lining of practicality: even if nothing new was ever published again, starting today...there would still be more books than you could ever read during several lifetimes. So...I don't feel like I am missing out on anything by avoiding the new stuff, since I am still trying to "catch up" on classic stuff and vintage stuff.
Always the plagiarism with these people.
On the plus side he could be the president of Harvard
Absurd. *Everyone* involved should be ashamed.
And they/thrm cry that AI is "plagiarizing" their work.
They're blackwashing history, so why not do the same with original stories? 😆
One of my mums many pearls of wisdom. "Never trust anyone who's surname begins and ends with a vowel"
She distrusts a lot of Italians and Japanese, ha
Leave that Nigerian Prince alone. Y’all are just jealousy! 😂
He still hasn't shared his wealth like he promised😆
Should I be shocked at what amounts to the usual suspect with the usual crime?
This is the second comment about this:
The usual suspect, according to you, with the usual crime…of stealing non-black stories?
Social media is really making folks stupid.
@@kirk1701 well yes blacks steal from white people all the time. all that farm land in Africa before whites was an open air toilet. the whites turned it into productive farmland that the blacks are stealing and ruining.
@kirk1701 The usual suspect according to anyone with eyes and who has lived on planet erf, yo. And the usual crime of theft.
@@Red_Devil_2011 Planet 'erf?'
Ohhh, 'planet Earth.'
I think.
Unless the 'usual suspects' come from this planet 'erf.'
And about the usual crime of theft:
Yes, we already established these 'usual suspects' take stories by whyte women and create nothing original themselves.
Every story out there about 'those usual suspects,' every story as leading characters is from a wyte woman.
@@kirk1701 it's called 'pattern recognition'.
But go on ahead and start doing the jungle-whooping noises about 'muh racism'.
At this point absolutely no one cares any more.
I read the ethics report by Cairns and the text messages back and forth and it is wild. This guy is such a scammer.
"Is it because I's. Black" ? 😂
I am waiting for some idiot is SFWA to say something along the lines of she deserves it, and consider it reparations.
I am sure this has already been muttered in the private whisper networks.
@@australiainfelix7307 Seriously!
Can you imagine if you weren't allowed to display a painting you had made of the Eiffel Tower until a French person had said it was good enough.
It's insane yet exactly the same. Or in Seine...
We found the nigerian prince of sci-fi.
Maybe he'll go back to email scamming.
"I am a Nigerian Prince..." Please hand me a Nebula.
I guess we should be grateful he chose to steal short stories rather than fly passenger jets or pretend to be a surgeon. But he is truly our Black Future writ large.
I have never forgotten how hard it was to break into writing as a career when I started out in the '90s, what with all the gatekeeping and rampant cronyism. Fought hard for years and managed to carve out a career in writing and editorial despite these troubles.
But now, thanks to the woke folk, as a white man I no longer have a career at all.
look at it from the other side of the spectrum. in modern russia you can't be a writer if you mention homosexuality in a book. you will be outlawed and deprived of civil rights and all money. and even your name will be erased from the film adaptation, if there is one. the same goes for statements about the government or about the war. i think things are even worse in north korea and china. it's not so bad to live in a democratic country my friend. i prefer to worry about the dominance of leftists in pop culture than about harsh guys taking me to prison for nothing
By "director at large" they mean a director who hasn't been caught by the police yet.
The legal complaint is probably longer than the story.
Sounds about right. Anything that isn't nailed down...
In the long run, this insanity will not help those they are trying to promote. If anything it will only have the opposite effect.
DEI, Didn't Earn It.
HA!!! I will be using this, moving forward :-)
I hate that I'm not surprised by this at all given the general state of mainstream SFF publishing.
Weird to me but much of post-modern SF fandom does, in fact, see all sci-fi and fantasy as, BY NATURE, progressive so if you are not woke you cannot legitimately be a sci-fi/fantasy fan or content creator (and you are a terrible person). I have heard this over and over again in chat and comment sections. When I remind them that the legends of speculative fiction, people with names like Lovecraft, Heinlein, Bradbury, and Tolkein, would be regarded as thoroughly Euro-centric, patriotic, conservative, or possibly even (in the case of Tolkein) religious ("perish the thought!") in a Christian sort of way, they go absolutely nuts! Then they follow it up with some weird psychological assessment of each one of those legends to "prove" that they were anomalies and should be disregarded now. I am not making this up!
Looooooool is this for real?!! We're sorry we ever doubted His Royal Highness the Prince of Nigeria! All this time he was watching over us!
Imploding in real time
SFWA keeps taking the Ls. I love it!
I was waiting for this review. I read about it last night on KF.
The SF/F publishing scene is nothing but a woke shambles.
Well I told ya if it wasn't nailed down....
Once again this guy is friends with Patrick Tomlinson and I mentioned the story on your videos. Thanks for doing this.
"we wuz autors n shiet"
Its a Nigerian god there are so many jokes to be made on this one.
My grandma fell for that too. 😢
Sounds like Fareed Zakaria, Claudine Gay etc. etc.
Wow can there be justice more poetic?
I actually do not buy any books recommended by SFWA. They are largely irrelevant to actual SF fans and readers
"Afro-futurism"? It's almost unbelievable how low the science-fiction genre has fallen. The garbage being held up as award-winning science-fiction is absolutely pathetic.
In COMPLETE REGARDS to our current day: It doesn't matter who did what to who in the distant past. When everything is about race, there's always going to be a two-way road of racism, and ultimately a vicious roundabout. We dropped civil oppression in the 50's. We gave alt-lifestylers full rights in 2008. Demanding any further progress is overflowing the pot. We regular people born into a civil age don't deserve to have our world revolved around oversaturation of moot idealism. No one will ever happy. True progress is to, as Morgan Freeman famously said: stop talking about it. We need to move forward as to-each-their-own, red-blooded homo-sapiens. To refute that is simply ...racist.
But I guess that's the point.
And most of the root of this goes to the idea that in order for African fiction to be accepted as being worthwhile, it has to be westernized. Because Africans have a long history of mythology and fantasy stories based on African cosmology and culture. But when writing popular fiction for the international market, especially expats from Africa in Europe or America, they have to try and adopt themes and elements of western culture and technology to try and sell it. Keep in mind that the term Afrofuturism itself was coined by a white Author in America. Now does that mean that this Nigerian author plagiarized all of his work? Of course not. And why did the author who is making these claims not go to court and file a lawsuit instead of an ethical complaint? And just for full disclosure the author is a white South African woman who submitted a work to an Anthology of African fiction and from the sound of it, wanted the Nigerian to give it an "African voice". Not my words, those are hers. So it will be interesting to see how this pans out. This also fits in with the DEI craze in Hollywood in trying to pretend African actors can only have "representation" by being in Western fiction and fantasy vs African fiction and fantasy.
The social commentary writes itself! Lmao
I guess it's easy to make better stories than them, since it is suspect that they didn't write anything at all.
Yet these are the same people who complain about AI stealing stories. AI is a tool for writer's block.
Grifters gonna grift
...but why!
Buncha losers
More Lackwashing. Day was alwayz der.
WFNs.
Gotta wonder how they're spinning this over on File 419....
Chinua Achebe is spinning in his grave.
We wuz wyte wemen and shiet!
Considering that most of these posers can’t out write ChatGPT, I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
The usual culprit colour.
He also stole my lawn furniture.
Dark brown/‘black’ people stealing stories written by white women?
Interesting.
Yeah!
Those black/dark brown folks (usual culprits) always stealing white people’s stories and submitting it as their own.
😅😅😅
Those damn culprits! Stealing those stories by white women!
Those damn culprits!
Always stealing stories written by white women!
Uh, Jon? What credibility?
NK Jemisin is a hack. I couldn't finish The Inheritance Trilogy. One of the most boring books I've ever had to suffer through. Combat written by someone who has never had any experience with martial arts or combat training. It's a souless mess and I don't understand how it ever got published.
This entire situation reeks of divine judgement. Seriously, to have so many disparate variables line up in such an ironic and humiliating fashion feels like God is directly involved in this smiting.
TRUMP 2024!! We need men to stand up and vote now more than ever. Kamala and her side does not like men, they have already infected our games/media. It will only get worse. Vote so you can make these developers cry.
Peter Hamilton went afro centerist , ditched him
Safe For Work Aaaaa?
Ok afropunk is cool yes its a out race but its purely an aesthetic thing the same way most people view cyberpunk or steampunk.
Siphyllis credibility?
Wasn't the earliest Afrofuturism created by the Nation of Islam with the scientist Yakub?
You could possibly promote and even sell much of Louis Farrakhan's more colorful doctrines such as the Yakub deal as DEI/Woke sci-fi content to the SFWA crowd and get a positive response... maybe even make a few bucks. Didn't Yakub create evil white people in a laboratory?
Now THAT is brilliant content!
Thats funny 😂
*One 4 the ALG0*
Ha ha ha ha! Oh, the tragedy is that this was inevitable.
Women, when they don't engage their neocortex in earnest, default to base mechanical behavior, and they divide all people into two groups:
1. *Infants* which need to be protected and coddled and controlled, (for their own good, you see).
2. *Snakes* which might hurt the babies and must be crushed with extreme prejudice.
Also.., comics and sci-fi and media jobs aren't adventures (the way men see them). No, no. They are *resources,* which must be jealously gate kept.
Women have much to offer, I'm sure, but the shift in cultural power is apparently a jerky enough thing that the vehicle of humanity can easily fly over a cliff. I'm not sure there are any advanced cultures which survived this point in their evolution.
Oh well... Luckily it only takes a couple hundred thousand years to reset and try again. America was just the latest Atlantis.
This post, if you see it, has been edited multiple times to appease the extreme prejudice of the YT double X gate.
Good story, but why are you ALWAYS so smugly boastful and self-congratulatory? And maybe pitch your books AFTER the story. Jesus.
I can see him doing it for the SFWA items since they came after him. Zack, EVS, and others that have done the same I can also understand.
What bothers me is that it doesn't feel very Christian to have this gloating tone on every other story.
@@jimjam51075 It's never a good Christian look to gloat at the misfortunes of your enemies. But mockery of their ridiculousness is often used by men of God in the Bible (as in the case of Elijah with the priests of Baal on Mt. Carmel). Jesus also used name-calling to mock Herod ("that fox") and the Pharisees ("white-washed sepulchres"). I also realize that Jon, being human, probably feels the need to over-react to personal attacks against his character by the woke tribe since their lies are, in fact, dangerous forms of slander and hyperbole while his commentary, while biting and sarcastic, tends to focus on the inconsistencies and foibles of his woke adversaries' own comments and actions. All web-influencersare shills for their own products. It's a job after all.
@@jimjam51075 Well, that's the thing. It's ALWAYS about his smug sense of self-satisfaction. And knowing he's always going to pitch his book (conveniently eliding the price in the screenshots) BEFORE he says what the story is? ... Yeah, I just talked myself into unsubbing. See yuh.
He's having a good time. As the lord intended.
@jimjam51075 it bothers you it doesn't feel "very chritian"..?
You're responding to a guy that literally took the the Lords name in vain in the post your responding to
That doesn't bother you though.......
Onward Christian Soldier indeed
You know why there's no black space program? Because there's nothing to steal or shoplift in space..
You are mistaken sir.... th-cam.com/video/T6xJzAYYrX8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=38q8tzD8Ia1kPzCW
anyone else seeming a theme with all this woke, dei crap?