I know I’m not the only one that has heard this. I get comic book and Sci-fi/fantasy writers probably lean left for the most part but I seem to remember liberals of the past being big on free speech and against censorship. Also I’ve heard SJWs complain about the original Star Trek because they had moved beyond race and you know everything today has to talk about race.
Stan Lee and Kirby are white males so they wouldn’t last today and on and on.
So what is a good response to this?
Yep, it's well worth the read (though I don't recommend the movie.)
It's basically the idea that nature will evolve around humans, in response to the intense selective pressure that human activities cause, especially once populations start establishing themselves in more civilized areas (witness coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, any number of birds, etc).
I doubt we'll see anything like a Doctor Rat or Zoo scenario (direct confrontation of humans), it'll be more like other species making use of humans, or more importantly, their stuff.
And of course, there's always going to be predators that take direct advantage of excess humans (the street people that have a habit of disappearing - see the Vancouver missing women deal, though I haven't heard much about it since Willie Pickton got caught ...) But they'd have to be on the serious down-low, and their activities easy to mistake for something else.
Think of this - rats don't need sticks and stones to make fire. They can make it by chewing through wires, which then elicits predictable behaviour from humans ....