I haven’t read that much science fiction, so I can’t speak to the genre very well. You make a good point that one’s cultural background and experience influence one’s subject matter and how one writes about it. What do you think that science fiction would be like had non-caucasian countries led the way in science and technology. How would the stories be different? Are there examples that we can read?
I would like to point out some things about the several points with the check marks.
- Forced into an international slave trade? ✔️
You are aware that the word “slave” comes from the word “Slav,” right? White people have been slaves. Read about the raid on Baltimore, Ireland and where those people were sold into slavery. Perhaps someone could write a hypothetical science fiction story written by a Pygmy held as a slave by other sub-Saharan Africans or others sold by people of their own race to Arab or European slavers. We could also consider the government-sponsored slavery that existed in totalitarian regimes in Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R, and elsewhere.
• Withheld the right to vote or marry (same sex, different race)? ✔️
• Mass genocide on a nation-wide scale? ✔️
It isn’t just non-whites that have experienced genocide. Read about the Holodomor. Read about what Fascist Croats did to Serbs during World War II. Read what Japan did to other people during their era of imperialism. Read about what Muslim invaders did when they invaded India. I might add that the anti-Christian activity by non-Christians in Africa is getting worse. Would science fiction written by these persecuted Christians be different from the science fiction written by those that are killing the Christians and destroying their churches?
• Subjected to either internment or extermination camps? ✔️
Take a look at the prison camp system in the Soviet Union or the current camps in the Xinjiang Uygar Autonomous Region in northwest China.
• Under constant surveillance and terrorized by the police? ✔️
See my previous point and add quite a few third world countries.
• Sent to private facilities and administered electric shock therapies? ✔️
Shall we review tyrannical governments all over the world in regards to this. Shall we start with African countries?
I was a teacher in Watts for more than ten years and I have lived in various parts of the world for a number of years, so don’t assume that I know nothing.