He was part of a small and informal but intense online community that scolded writers who ran afoul of these values in their work or online. Now, Jackson has been demonized by the community he once helped police.

Shocking! Ok, not. This is how it works, and it has nothing at all to do with sensitivity or equality — it’s the “job wars” as noted on Clarissa’s Blog.

Both Jackson and Zhang are people of color who now see their careers hobbled in an industry that claims to be laser-focused on diversity.

I would laugh but it’s all so pathetic, and in extremely predictable ways. Diversity matters, but none of this is helping the goal of diversity. In fact, exactly the opposite: it is designed to drive people away with capricious demands and calls to “cancel” where the real but ever-unstated goal is to eliminate threatening competition.

This is the same thing that is happening in other ways in the dating market and with what #metoo has become, for instance. It will only get worse.