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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It's opinions like this that make one want to vote one's race like she does - 100% of the time.
When I come back from Kanada, they WILL offer the option of “frisk” vs the XRAY. I’ve done this multiple times (last was just this past Christmas) and I saw the XRAY machine in Vancouver...
It’s gathering dust.
“The worst part for me was a large burly, hairy man dressed in a tight dress, spikey heels, a wig, red lipstick”
You’re kidding right? I would have burst out laughing if I saw that..
Diversity police ruin these shows and our culture. Not to mention what pretending RAP was music did to music.
It was a small room. I didn’t say much but evidently I aggravated him no end when I stood my ground on ‘quality.’
If it was just having some anachronisms about blacks in the background, I’d say go ahead and watch. But, it is ridiculous that they completely changed a man into a woman. I’ll admit, I didn’t know the true story beforehand. The woman acts as a pilot and not a scientist, but she is of course amazing as women in modern productions have to be. Feminist reviewers expressed disappointment in finding out she was invented for the movie. LOL.
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