she's being heavily sarcastic. There is a blowup, and this published author asshole went :
The other and more hopeful point is that never before have so many Readers of Color existed to *have* the conversation, or been able to communicate with each other to do so. When I went to my first midwestern convention in 1968, there was exactly one black fan, male; it's only in late years that I've had cause to wonder how brave he must have been to venture in. Octavia Butler, at a library program, once described a young black reader meeting her as a black SF writer, and saying in some wonder, "I didn't know we *did* that!" As far as I can tell, the biggest single factor driving the current shift and growth in diversity in genre readers has been the invention of the Internet.
This is the first occasion I know of that a book out of the former tradition has intersected the new audience. you really need to read the whole reply. Flames. on . the. side. of my. face. And on delux's. Everyone went nuclear.
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Date: 2009-05-12 03:12 pm (UTC)The other and more hopeful point is that never before have so many Readers of Color existed to *have* the conversation, or been able to communicate with each other to do so. When I went to my first midwestern convention in 1968, there was exactly one black fan, male; it's only in late years that I've had cause to wonder how brave he must have been to venture in. Octavia Butler, at a library program, once described a young black reader meeting her as a black SF writer, and saying in some wonder, "I didn't know we *did* that!" As far as I can tell, the biggest single factor driving the current shift and growth in diversity in genre readers has been the invention of the Internet.
This is the first occasion I know of that a book out of the former tradition has intersected the new audience.
you really need to read the whole reply. Flames. on . the. side. of my. face. And on delux's. Everyone went nuclear.