As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
I once asked my cousin what he would have done if he had been alive in 1933 Germany, like our Oma and Opa. "There are only 4 possibilities," he said. "1) submit and adapt, 2) fight and live in constant danger, 3) flee, and 4) commit suicide."
We do not yet live under a fascist regime, for if we did, none of us who live here would be having this conversation in the open, those of us who would openly be having this conversation wouldn't live here, many of us would already have been murdered, and some of us would have taken our own lives.
