It's not a "new orthodoxy"; it's just another of the many boring brainstorms of the loony Left. These people are the same nincompoops who say that people and cultures are all equal, but who turn around and deny that a white person can possibly know how a back person or one of the other protected species feels. Their nutty theories don't work the other way around, of course.

All we can hope for is that the minds of these people will become so twisted with hate and frenzy that they will need to be locked away in a suitable institution, and out of our hair.

Well called. I am not a fan of D Marr, but commend him for his principled threat to resign. When you hear of this sort of "special case censorship" it only reminds us of the authoritarian nature of the so called socially and culturally aware lefties who try to constrain free thought and speech.

This is a combination of reverse apartheid, political correctness on steroids and gone mad, reverse racism!

I mean should all the harry potter stories be eliminated because A.C.Rowling wasn't a magician!? Or wasn't a boy, a male? There's is a reason we call fiction, fiction!

Should those who wrote star wars and star trek be censored on the grounds they were neither Aliens nor astronauts nor from an unimaginable future!?

And how about humanoids? Robots? Well, the latter role could be filled by some of the racially acquiescing publishers?

This stuff belongs in the asylum and is clearly a case of the inmates now in charge and running the madhouse!

And because a very small group are not able to deal with the past like normal rational human beings! And clearly with egos large enough to be a danger to shipping?

Tell these stuffed shirts to go visit the nearest taxidermist!
Alan B.

ttbn: D Marr is clearly one of your so-called lefties and along with others on the left, out in front of the enraged protest condemning this attack on the freedom to THINK.

You and your (coal-fired) lot are now so far to the authoritarian right anyone in the moderate middle or very slightly to the right is now described by you and your totally intolerant cohort as lefties!

And as far as it goes, I believe, no more rational than the loony tunes now running reverse racist, publishing houses!
Alan B.

Dear Alan B.

Haven't homosexual male actors been playing straight roles in live theatre, TV & movies for over a century? Isn't this cultural appropriation? Maybe D Marr is just protecting his own patch from attack.

Haven't EVERYBODY on the left been been telling the proletariat what to think without asking them anything about anything?

no wonder so many blacks have turned to Trump. This putried identity politics is all the deviant democrats can talk about. I wonder of Labour have learned something although with the likes of Keneally I doubt it.