Lots of things are going to stand in your way. Don’t make up additional stupid new ones to hold you back.

I came across the articles criticizing it before I came across the article itself.

The originating article is Science fiction publishing has a major race problem, new report shows by Andrew Liptak.

Liptak's is the usual numeracy-challenged social justice warrior statistically-impaired compost of nonsense that is regrettably common. The basic argument is that in the most progressive genre (science fiction/fantasy) of the most progressive sector (publishing) of the most progressive industry (media entertainment), the editors and publishers are incorrigibly bigoted and racist. I hear Luke (4:23) whispering in my ear.

And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

If progressives are so unremittingly bigoted and racist, then it is up to them to put their own homes in order. There is little the rest of us can or ought to do to heal them. Which, since we are on a biblical role, brings to mind the wisdom of Matthew (7:3).

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

But of course, not all is as it seems. SJW are not interested in law, justice or facts. They are advancing their own special interests, both political and commercial. Brad Torgersen and Larry Coreia are here to dissect and fisk the logical and empirical fallacies being stewed up to arrive at the social justice nonsense.

Respectively, here is the heavy lifting to deconstruct, as it were, the Liptak nonsense: Addressing The Problem™ by Brad Torgersen and, even more colorfully, Fisking the Latest Diversity in Sci-Fi Freak Out by Larry Correia.

I like Correia's framing.

After reading this defeatist garbage I figured I needed to say something. This fisking is addressed toward the aspiring authors in the audience. You are trying to make it as a professional author. Lots of things are going to stand in your way. Don’t make up additional stupid new ones to hold you back.