Stephen King yesterday set off the twitter hate mobs by asserting that nominations for awards should be based on merit rather than diversity. That was all it took to spark off a massive Twitter hate storm over yet another famous voice stating an opinion that goes against the progressive identity ideology that permeates Hollywood.
As a writer, I am allowed to nominate in just 3 categories: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay. For me, the diversity issue–as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway–did not come up. That said…
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 14, 2020
…I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 14, 2020
From this meritocratic position I’m sure the responses were well reasoned, rational and presented with empirical precision.
I’m kidding. It’s Twitter.
It’s a dumpster fire of racists spewing hatred at white people and virtue signaling how woke they are.
There is also a ton of art that used to be acceptable that is no longer acceptable because we’ve realized the total lack of morality in the minds that created it. We learn and grow and adapt which means realizing that homogeneous media is boring, stupid, and damaging us all.
— Bits Of String (@Major_Zipf) January 14, 2020
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.
— roxane gay (@rgay) January 14, 2020
It is an interesting sentiment that a creator’s works are not separate from the creator’s reputation. In some part most can agree with this sentiment. On our side we don’t support woke media, woke companies, and is less likely to buy products from anti-white Trump derangement syndrome sufferers.
Yet at the same time the added bit of collectivism is where he slips up. It’s rather paradoxical in its nature. It asserts all people of color are under-privileged because of systematic oppression. Yet at the same time it denies that another race can’t be doing well or poor because of their own of systematic efforts.
If you dare bring up the notion of collective positive actions they decry you a racist, but their own ideology of collectivism necessitates that individualism doesn’t exist, thus your lot in life must be a reaction to your environment and society. This necessitates that one race be inherently superior because individual effort and consequences don’t factor into this world view. Yet despite this being a necessity and a passive admission if you point it out you’re the racist not them.
Sir, respectfully saying you as a white man can’t really say that. You had more advantages and opportunities than a person of color would have. They have been wrongfully held back in so many ways just because of their color skin.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) January 14, 2020
You’re a very smart person ans one of my favourite writers, but you must acknowledge you’ve had an easier path in your career than a woman or POC, right?
White men disproportionately reward other white men, regardless of quality.— Faron Gidge 📷 (He/Him) (@FaronGidge) January 14, 2020
You have to love how flagrantly racist the anti racists of the left are. Apparently you are not allowed to speak if you are white because whites are a majority in the west. Except this qualifies as genocide and whites are the minority on the world stage never factors into their decisions as they tweet from their ethnically pure neighborhoods slash apartments.
Every writer of color reading this, including me, has had to work ten times harder to get the same recognition/opportunities straight white male authors get from the start. Same goes for women, LGBTQIA writers, & other underrepresented voices. Diversity matters. It matters a lot.
— Gabino Iglesias (@Gabino_Iglesias) January 14, 2020
By now you get the picture. Stephen King for his sentiment that content of one’s work not the color of their skin is what matters netted him an endless stream of upper class white racists responding how what he said was problematic.
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