Striving For Diversity
And so you must be excluded:
It means they’re holding you responsible for their out-of-control feelings and they’re hoping you’re tolerant and kind enough to let them call you intolerant and unkind.
It’s a pathetic power move from life’s losers meant to turn your own morals against you.
It’s one of the…
— Porkulence (@Porkulence) June 25, 2025
Update, via the comments:
It must be quite strange to inhabit a milieu in which the normal meanings of words are either ignored or inverted. By people who aspire to be professional writers. Communicators of ideas.
Such that safety translates as a compulsory and intensely neurotic following of very narrow ideological fashion.
A social environment in which celebrating diversity means pointedly and gleefully excluding anyone we suspect of possibly have differing opinions on something or other, whether expressed or not, and doing so in ways that, to others, those less progressive, seem petty and weird.
Something along those lines.
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Having a premise where some advanced technology has been invented that enables people to change their bodies to whatever they want isn’t a bad premise for a sci-fi story. It’s in the vein of Demolished Man or The Stars My Destination, where a good story is built around some science fiction concept.
The problem modern science fiction has is that authors will be unable to explore it in an interesting way. There’s no way a modern author will have male predators becoming women for their own gratification.
It’s not even that they’re prevented from exploring it, they will choose not to because of their own political sensibilities. Their ideology makes them incapable of writing good sci-fi.
Far too glib and naive a premise. But those stories were written at a time when the Blank Slate ruled the thinking of “smart” people. A foolish but fashionable dogma.