Just got to thinking about this after those threads on The Expanse and Military Sci-Fi (which admittedly is probably the sub-genre least affected by this trend).
I know the case can be made for the existence of some conservative authors or sometimes conservative themes, of course they exist, but are they “swimming upstream” so-to-speak? Going against the flow of “the mainstream” of Sci-Fi?
I’m not looking for a list of conservative authors by the way, I want to hear if the people here think that Sci-Fi as a genre may or may not have an inherent bias towards the new, the previously unseen, and thus “progressive” ideas and ideologies. Not even necessarily to castigate Sci-Fi, merely to attempt to understand what’s happening.
The “Sad Puppies” folks probably have some insights on this subject but I don’t know much about them beyond their existence and their claim that the Sci-Fi book awards system has been subverted by leftist/progressive ideologues:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies
Sad Puppies activists accused the Hugo Awards "of giving awards on the basis of political correctness and favoring authors and artists who aren't straight, white and male".
I do see the ideas of sci-if and “progressivism” as connected, but I’m not sure if that’s an inherent aspect of the genre, or if that is perhaps a cultural relic. I lean towards the idea that it is likely largely cultural (i.e. well respected sci-fi authors of old put “culturally progressive” themes in their books about Scientific “progress”, and that has carried on to this day) but I’m interested in where everyone else falls on the subject.
A technologically-advanced society has to be racially-''conservative'' in the sense that it cannot exist if you let low-IQ retards demographically-replace us.
The Bantus invaded and appropriated White South Africa with its infrastructure and education system. South Africa is now collapsing due to the damage of black population-level dynamics.
No, ''not all of them''. But enough of them to make it so every place they gather in high number invariably goes to shit when there is no longer Whites or Asians to keep things running.
I'm a realist. They had no history of being in my nation. The instant their second-generation, ungrateful spawn reached their teenage years, the violence, stealing, raping and pimping statistics headed the same way they did everywhere else they went to.