I am president of a community orchestra. We get small grants from the city and county. County had a ‘diversity’ workshop in which we broke up into groups and talked about the most important qualities in art/ music. You should have heard the lefty-blather. “Diversity” of course; ‘equality.’ ‘Empathy.” Empathy?? In art?? In an orchestra?
I put out ‘quality’ and announced it was the only one that mattered. You should have seen the demon-eyes!!! “Quality?? Over empathy?” I said, “Yes, what good is music if it is not as good as you can make it?” They just could not grasp it.
I could have warned Stephen King haha.
I went to 3 of these diversity bullcrap sessions. Even the white lefties know it was a waste of time, and I should have punched them all in the face for wasting mine.
There was an episode of RESCUE ME on FX when all the firemen had to attend one and Dennis Leary finally asked on the “film” ..”I have a question: why are ALL the evil guys on the film the white guys?”