Posted on 01/14/2020 2:22:29 PM PST by conservative98
Stephen King is under fire on Twitter after downplaying the role of diversity in selecting this year’s Academy Award nominees.
“I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality,” the 72-year-old tweeted on Tuesday. “It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.”
In an earlier tweet, King wrote that diversity was not even discussed in the categories he was tasked with nominating.
“As a writer, I am allowed to nominate in just 3 categories: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay,” he explained. “For me, the diversity issue—as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway—did not come up.”
The author of “It,” “Carrie” and “The Outsider” was instantly eviscerated by many on social media, including “Selma” and “When They See Us” director Ava DuVernay, who has championed diversity in Hollywood.
“When you wake up, meditate, stretch, reach for your phone to check on the world and see a tweet from someone you admire that is so backward and ignorant you want to go back to bed,” she wrote.
Author Roxane Gay also joined in, writing, “As a fan, this is painful to read from you. It implies that diversity and quality cannot be synonymous. They are not separate things. Quality is everywhere but most industries only believe in quality from one demographic. And now, here you are.”
“Uh oh . . . Stephen King is against affirmative action??? I hope he’s ready to be canceled by all the people that LOVE him when he hates on Trump,” tweeted comedian Tim Young.
The controversial statement came after multiple articles decried the fact that all nominees for the 2020 Best Director Oscar are white and male — even after the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite forced the Academy to adopt diversity reforms.
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Wut?
Yes.
The very same people that disagree withnhim, are the ones that have award shows that discriminate against whites and men by excluding them.
Race and gender. Don’t forget gender.
M O O N spells misogynist.
The woke revolution eating its own.
It’s always a fun spectacle to watch.
Great to see this big lefty getting eaten by his own.
When you live in hell, all it takes is one tweet, to ruin your whole day.
Well that's it!!! I am going to Tweet about this!
Exactly. It’s like when all the committed commies Stalin had put in show trials. My sympathy level is the same.
She could be the lead in Predator.
The leftards are eating their own. All those white cucks who’ve helped pushed the “diversity” narrative are free to give up their jobs to ‘people of color’.
Eat it King! Hilarious. The lefty says something sane and gets attacked for it.
The left has been waging war against equal treatment and fairness for quite a while now.
“... now have to present false history ...”
You mean like ‘Hamilton’ which is the 3rd best Broadway show my teenage grand daughter has ever seen.
Groan.
Yep - because that would also mean everything should be decided that way (as insinuated by his “in matters of art” qualifier) - they hate that...
I was thinking of checking that out until I read a little about it. It is based on a true story, but one of the lead characters has been changed from a man to a woman. I don't mind a story about a man and a woman in a hot air balloon, but since they bothered to set it in the same historical period, I don't see a woman as a scientist going up in a balloon in that period. After reading your description, it sounds like it is worse that I thought.
oh uck. Some Asian gal spoke/ led - had taken a job in Minnesota or somewhere in the north, then lambasted the group for being all white. And men. They told her they were ‘color blind,’ they just didn’t care. We were taught, however, that IF you say that, it means you DEFINITELY are racist.
How about that for ‘no right answer.’
The worst part for me was a large burly, hairy man dressed in a tight dress, spikey heels, a wig, red lipstick. He was the one who really got on my case for holding out for ‘quality.’ I named him Bluto. haha. The great thing was, my husband (a scientist) came with me. He played along, asked a lot of questions, but was not in my small group. We laughed and compared notes all the way home.
Who is paying for this? We are!! How much? These workshops just for arts groups in LA County have gone on for two years!
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