diversity of thought vs diversity of identity: a little about the SFWA Bulletin brouhaha

The most objective account I've found of the basic events in the Great Flamewar about Mike Resnick, Barry Malzberg, and the SFWA Bulletin is in Russell Davis's Sexism and SFWA—but it should be noted that, as always happens in war time, partisans see attempts at objectivity as collaboration with the enemy, and Davis has already felt it necessary to apologize in What I Learned Yesterday.

His account has its quirks—he seems to think there's no difference between sexist and sexual, so he...