Said it before and I’ll say it again: publishing-industry professionals intentionally diversifying what they represent or publish is NOT an expression of anyone’s intent to suppress majority perspectives. But by default, if only majority perspectives are chosen, marginalized perspectives are buried. Attempts to uplift historically and currently suppressed populations to get just a tenth of what’s already out there by mainstream authors is NOT going to interfere with any opportunities for the mainstream. But the way they’re always wailing about other people getting opportunities certainly does betray how unrepentant they are about believing those positions automatically belong to them.
Government officials making exclusionary and bigoted laws and policies is nothing new. As usual, people who gloated about it and made up stories about their own superiority will be self-righteously explaining how it was “just a different time” when they end up on the wrong side of history. We, who are sharing this time with you, know it’s wrong and never considered not fighting it.