I know that a lot of things are coming up social issues of late, but these are things that I never really get to talk about on my YouTube channel, so I’m going to put them here instead.

As a lot of people also know, I am an author and there’s a mess of identity politics currently polluting the writing game. People are concerned whether they’re allowed to write people who aren’t absolutely identical to who they are in real life and that’s just stupid, yet there’s no talking rationally to these regressive snowflakes because they’re not concerned about reality.

And here’s everything wrong with that.You’ll see this everywhere, especially in regard to the entertainment media. For some reason, it really matters what every non-white character is doing because people are treating each of them like they are inherently representing their entire race. And that’s bullshit.

I ran into this a bit in a series of books that I wrote nearly 2 years ago now, where in two of the books, two of the secondary characters just so happened to be black. There was really no reason for them to be black, or white, or anything else. It’s just that, when I was creating them, they just seemed to me to be black so that’s what they became. There were numerous other minority characters scattered throughout the books and none of them were built to be diversity hires. They were what they felt to me that they should be. I wasn’t working from a checklist. They were some of the heroes of the story.

Yet that wasn’t good enough for some people. It wasn’t enough that I had black characters in the book, they had to “act” like black characters. Well what does that mean? They had to seem like they came straight out of the ghetto, listened to gangsta rap and were card-carrying members of Black Lives Matter. In other words, they had to be a stereotype.

And I said no. I probably said it a lot more strenuously, but that was the sentiment. They were individuals and individuals were, by definition, not stereotypical. They had grown up in a small, middle-class community nestled in the Colorado Rockies. They were just people. They were the girls next door and the girls next door didn’t run around saying they’re gonna pop a cap in your ass. That would be stupid.

Yet that’s what a  lot of people, especially on the left, seem to want. They don’t want to see people just being people, they want them to be representative of an entire race. Whether they like it or not, that is, by definition, racist, but what’s good for me is not good for thee, I guess. Well screw those people. I told them as much.

See, the reality that these people can’t face is that skin color doesn’t create your personality. Neither does  gender or sexual orientation. You are who you are because of how you were raised and your environment. If a black person and a white person are raised side by side in the ghetto, they are both going to act largely the same way. The same is true of they are raised in wealthy neighborhoods. The idea that every black person every is the same as every other is asinine in the extreme, yet this is the kind of identity politics nonsense that the far-left relies on. You are your race and not only do you have to behave by leftist-approved stereotypes of your race, but you need to be a spokesman for the validity of those stereotypes and their inherent problems. Black people aren’t allowed to speak out against the dangers of single-parent poverty-level households, for example. If they do, that makes them race traitors!

This is really, really stupid when you think about it, but whereas Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke of wanting to do away with racial stereotypes and judge people on the content of their character, modern leftists want nothing to do with that. They only want people judged by the color of their skin or by the genitalia between their legs. All women have to be man-hating hyper-feminists or they’ve got something wrong with them. That is how the modern left thinks.

And it’s bullshit. It really is. People are people. I don’t care if you’re black or blue or green or purple. You are accountable to the society in which you live. There are no double standards. Your race doesn’t buy you extra privileges.  Anyone who wants a monochromatic society is an idiot and it doesn’t matter if you’re white or black or  anywhere in between. It’s time to give that shit up and accept that people’s color doesn’t mean anything. It’s who they are, not what they are, that matters.

But try explaining that to the left. This came up again today in a Reddit thread about social progressivism. I threw out that there were problems with progressivism and tossed identity politics in as an example and immediately, the originators of the thread downvoted the comment into oblivion and threw insults at me before running away. They can’t have an intelligent conversation on the subject, or on any subject deemed sacred to the left. They can only insult and flee and hope others will follow. It only proves what a bunch of children they are. But that should come as no surprise.

These are the people with problems, not those of us who are just writing books or creating TV shows or making movies and not really making a political statement. My characters are black because they are black. They are not black to teach some grand social lesson. If that’s the only way you can think, then you have problems and those problems need to be addressed.

Yet it’s pretty hard to address them when these people flee the second their preconceptions are pointed out, isn’t it? Kind of sad when you think about it.