This paragraph is deliberately left vague - a Rorschach test of sorts.
I am not quite sure what he is referring to exactly. I do know that my local bookstore has much more books from authors who are gay, trans, black, Asian, etc than it did 15 years ago. If you value diversity in your media - which I do - then this is wonderful. We had a NY Times best seller last year about black women mathematicians working at NASA in the mid 1900s - it’s very hard to imagine who would have published that book in the 90s or 2000s.
If that constitutes “diminishing the literature and cultural products of the West” in the author’s mind, so be it, but perhaps he should be a tad more upfront about what he really means.
I am not quite sure what he is referring to exactly. I do know that my local bookstore has much more books from authors who are gay, trans, black, Asian, etc than it did 15 years ago. If you value diversity in your media - which I do - then this is wonderful. We had a NY Times best seller last year about black women mathematicians working at NASA in the mid 1900s - it’s very hard to imagine who would have published that book in the 90s or 2000s.
If that constitutes “diminishing the literature and cultural products of the West” in the author’s mind, so be it, but perhaps he should be a tad more upfront about what he really means.