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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“What did he say that was so horrible? That he believes awards should be based on merit?”
Merit is racissss.
“fury”
Wasn’t Christine a Chevy?
Yep.
Big No-No in Snowflake land....................
Articles about internet rage are meaningless.
“Online fury” comes pretty cheap these days.
Stephen King is finding out the hard way the things important to the Literary Left aren’t that important to the Left’s Cultural Commissars.
You’ll be lined up against the wall and shot if you rebel against the party line.
Merit or diversity. Pick one.
“Articles about internet rage are meaningless.”
Your statement infuriates me!
The Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, al these “awards” are BS...I don’t know why people (normal people) are evn concerned about them...It’s just the rich, Hollywood elite crowd patting each other on the back just for dressing up and playing like they are someone else...
George Orwell himself was a leftist but he couldn’t subscribe to the socialism then current in Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Or maybe it’s just that he’s getting older and no longer taking the trouble to hold his tongue. Haven’t you noitced how occasionally public figures — always men — who’ve slavishly mouthed the usual leftist nonsense their entire career will begin speaking their mind as they near the end of their lives?
🤡🌎
Kinda funny from a guy that basically writes “trash” novels.
My husband is really annoyed that they gave a man’s part to a woman. It was really two men who did this.
I haven’t gone to see Little Women because, from the reviews, they have taken Louisa May Alcott’s book and politicized it. I’m done with Leftists rewriting classic books to make them ‘woke’.
People like King brought it upon themselves.
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?”
My dream girl..yipes!
Yeah, and she’s very annoying at the beginning. The movie was just okay to me.
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