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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      5/ OP conjures up a strawman - "there are SFF gatekeepers". There are? The gates have fallen. Tor and the other publishers run the field now, and they've all but banned cis white hetero men, to make room on the shelves for PoC / female / immigrant / translated Chinese SF.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      6/ So, yes, there ARE gatekeepers - try to get a classic Nivenesque novel published! ...but as to OP's point: there are all these terrible racist smells-like-Confederate-spirit white men who are trying to keep private whatever people out: totally false.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      7/ Now, what OP MIGHT be referring to as "gatekeeping" is not control of the actual gates (i.e. the publishers), but people who have OPINIONS. Opinions like "SF had far more breadth and variety in 1960 or 1990 than today". Why not just say that?

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      8/ The left, despite controlling the commanding heights of government, culture, media, and publishing, can't get over the self image it has had since the 1960s - the brave rebellious underdogs fighting against The Man. So of course a few scattered dissidents with no power >

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      9/ ...have to be labelled "gatekeepers", that way the plucky young rebels who ... uh ... run every single publisher, control every fandom committee at every con, run the blogs for the big bookstores, etc can decry those mean mean "gatekeepers" who ... disagree with them.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jess Nevins

      10/ e.g. here people who disagree that current SF is best SF are "bullies" How DARE some random individual blogger be mean to the poor old publishers / awards committees / cons / industry? BULLY ! Tor screams out in pain as it strikes you.https://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289951206672961536 …

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      Jess Nevins @jessnevins
      Now, bullies are gonna bully, whatever happens. But the intellectual bullies & gatekeepers of the 1940s & 1950s & 1960s, the librarians (hi, y'all!) and high school teachers and college professors, wouldn't have been nearly so awful had sf not gone pulp.
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jess Nevins

      11/ And then, of course, the entire thread is peppered with mood-affiliation slanders. Again and again and again people who like the old variety and tumult of SF are tarred with a bizarre association with the Confederacyhttps://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289954911023636486 …

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      Jess Nevins @jessnevins
      Martin gave the sf equivalent of a Lost Cause speech, with Campbell standing in for Robert E. Lee. Don't let people like Martin tell you what the history of your genre is.
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jess Nevins

      12/ This is objectively false.https://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289959633432358912 …

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      Jess Nevins @jessnevins
      Martin would have you believe the history of science fiction is written, and, surprise, it's a shower of white male mfers. It's not. The history of sf is wide-open--undocumented--uncharted. Heavily white? Maybe. But just as likely to be populated with BIPOCs as just whites.
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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 2 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jess Nevins

      13/ This is objectively a red herring. No one, to a good approximation, is arguing that "the history of SF is the history of white male writers". We had Alice Bradley Sheldon, Octavia Butler, H M Hoover, Madeleine L'Engle, H M Hoover, Anne McCaffrey, Thttps://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1289960398142222337 …

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      Jess Nevins @jessnevins
      The history of the genre isn't the story of white male writers. It never was. It's the history of all of us.
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    10. Xcessively Black Fully Vaccinated Artisanal Author‏ @spladayum 3 Aug 2020
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      You said H M Hoover, twice.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Aug 2020
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      Thank you, Donnie

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        1. Xcessively Black Fully Vaccinated Artisanal Author‏ @spladayum 3 Aug 2020
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