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Stephen King ignites online fury over controversial Oscars tweets
NY Post ^ | January 14, 2020 | 4:50pm | Ben Cost

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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To: Leep

‘58 Plymouth Fury


41 posted on 01/14/2020 3:13:04 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: Zathras

Wut?


42 posted on 01/14/2020 3:18:39 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Not A Snowbird

Yes.


43 posted on 01/14/2020 3:23:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: conservative98

The very same people that disagree withnhim, are the ones that have award shows that discriminate against whites and men by excluding them.


44 posted on 01/14/2020 3:24:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Race and gender. Don’t forget gender.


45 posted on 01/14/2020 3:27:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Zathras

M O O N spells misogynist.


46 posted on 01/14/2020 3:32:38 PM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: conservative98

The woke revolution eating its own.

It’s always a fun spectacle to watch.


47 posted on 01/14/2020 4:04:15 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: conservative98

Great to see this big lefty getting eaten by his own.


48 posted on 01/14/2020 4:30:27 PM PST by Dave911
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To: conservative98

When you live in hell, all it takes is one tweet, to ruin your whole day.


49 posted on 01/14/2020 4:38:03 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: conservative98
Yeah, because the LQBTQ, black movie "Moonlight" really, really deserved to with the Oscar for Best Picture.


50 posted on 01/14/2020 4:41:40 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Leep; Williams
“Articles about internet rage are meaningless.”...……………... Your statement infuriates me!

Well that's it!!! I am going to Tweet about this!


51 posted on 01/14/2020 4:44:50 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: aquila48

Exactly. It’s like when all the committed commies Stalin had put in show trials. My sympathy level is the same.


52 posted on 01/14/2020 4:55:18 PM PST by xp38
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To: conservative98

She could be the lead in Predator.


53 posted on 01/14/2020 5:36:34 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Not A Snowbird

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’.


54 posted on 01/14/2020 5:38:16 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: conservative98

Eat it King! Hilarious. The lefty says something sane and gets attacked for it.


55 posted on 01/14/2020 6:55:56 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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To: conservative98

The left has been waging war against equal treatment and fairness for quite a while now.


56 posted on 01/14/2020 7:25:51 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Rastus

“... 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.


57 posted on 01/14/2020 7:31:11 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Not A Snowbird

Yep - because that would also mean everything should be decided that way (as insinuated by his “in matters of art” qualifier) - they hate that...


58 posted on 01/15/2020 3:32:43 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Rastus
I watched the 2019 movie The Aeronauts. Set in 1862, there are plenty of blacks walking the streets of London and dancing with white women at the fancy ball. I guess #oscarsowhite means you now have to present false history just to avoid getting hit.

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.

59 posted on 01/15/2020 7:30:16 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: max americana

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!


60 posted on 01/15/2020 9:50:10 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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