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The words of former gatekeeper Gardner Dozois.
For a number of years I worked for the Galaxy group of magazines as a "slush pile" reader, evaluating the endless flow of unsolicited manuscripts - sometimes many as a hundred a day - that come into a magazine or publishing house and end up heaped in filing cabinets or cardboard boxes: the slush pile. ... most of the science fiction that came into the slush pile were rejected because they suffered from what I call the 1950 syndrome. ...
There are no races: everyone is white, middle-class, American, middle-of-the-road. No one has ever heard of homosexuality or drug addiction or pollution. ... Everyone is unflaggingly and unquestionably patriotic. ... Everyone is smugly contented. They are all the most trusting of optimists.