Originally Posted by
Conch22
My point was specifically "here's an example of someone being told they can't do something because of their race and social pressure being put on a company as a result, I'm against that". It seem steered on your end towards the onus of the situation falling squarely on the creator, which there can be some truth to depending on circumstances but ultimately I'm of the habit of not making excuses for people who try to deny others opportunities based on race. I became aware of the McDuffie situation about a year ago (I wasn't overly active online when it actually went down) and have decried the actions of editorial elsewhere on that matter, if I recall right the specifics were McDuffie had Vixen, John Stewart and Jason Rusch on the team if I'm remembering the lineup right, wanted to add Icon as a Superman substitute as Supes wasn't available for the book due to then current storylines, McDuffie was told that would make it a "black book" so no, disgusting behavior on editorials part and he essentially had his limit of black characters with those 3. McDuffie spoke openly about this and was canned. I can say that's wrong and not have to try to qualify it with some argument about readership ethnic breakdowns or sales or Milestone eventually crashing and getting bailed out by DC. I could make that argument and not be able to look at myself in the mirror afterwards, end of the day the behavior was wrong, point blank, period.
There's anti-SJW stuff that's basically a reactionary response to reactionaries of a different political stripe. I see less overreach to do things like cost people there jobs (there's another example of another person, David Pakman, being on the receiving end of disagreeing with someones warped view of championing political correctness online and that person contacting a university to try to get them to fire David from his teaching position).
With that said, when the sexual assault allegations came out about one of the last Vertigo creators, the Anti-SJW crowd went from trust but verify to listen and believe awfully quick, so don't think I'm going yay, partisan groupthink.
Being able to bring up many examples, though keeping it to a few to still see the forest for the trees, of people committing specific actions in the name of PC, makes this awkward and I do want to be able to compare specific positive examples. I want to be able to put an example like someone trying to get David Pakman fired from a teaching issue because he disagreed with someones opinion online regarding political correctness, alongside a hypothetical housing the homeless or removal of a sexist job policy. When something becomes about a vague influence on social issues, I've no doubt an iteration of PC contributed, not the easiest thing to gauge from cause to effect without solid, specific examples attached. So I'll leave my question open hoping to hear more good things with more specificity to them.