Stephen King did a thing on Twitter talking about “diversity” in Oscars 2020

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Go crazy?
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Don't mind if I do!
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RumblyTumbly said:
Gives a rational and reasonable response...gets shit on for it. Tis the way of the #CurrentYear brigade.



Also true.

Honestly, the only "diversity" film that got overlooked by the Oscars, to me, was Dolemite is My Name. I would have liked to see the academy give that more recognition with a few nominations.
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But Dolemite Is My Name is about a black man working hard and chasing his dream, and making things happen that boosted others. That’s not ok in today’s world.
 
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King wrote an op-ed in the WaPo on his comments:

www.indiewire.com

Stephen King Argues That the Oscars Are ‘Still Rigged In Favor of White People’

The author's Washington Post op-ed on the film industry's lack of diverse nominees comes two weeks after King drew criticism for Twitter remarks related to the subject.
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Discussions of arts and culture, like discussions of politics, have become increasingly acrimonious and polarized in recent years. Lines of belief are drawn with indelible ink, and if you step over them — wittingly or otherwise — you find yourself in the social-media version of the stocks and subject to a barrage of electronic turnips and cabbages.

I stepped over one of those lines recently, by saying something on Twitter that I mistakenly thought was noncontroversial: “I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” The subject was the Academy Awards. I also said, in essence, that those judging creative excellence should be blind to questions of race, gender or sexual orientation.

I did not say that was the case today, because nothing could be further from the truth. Nor did I say that films, novels, plays and music focusing on diversity and/or inequality cannot be works of creative genius. They can be, and often are. Ava DuVernay’s 2019 Netflix miniseries, “When They See Us,” about the wrongful convictions of the Central Park Five, is a splendid case in point.

For answers to why some talented artists are nominated and some — such as Greta Gerwig, who helmed the astoundingly good new version of “Little Women” — are not, you might need to look no further than the demographic makeup of those who vote for the Academy Awards. It’s better than it was, certainly. Only eight years ago, 94 percent of the 5,700 voters were white, according to the Los Angeles Times, 77 percent were male and 54 percent were more than 60 years old. This year, women make up 32 percent of voters (up only 1 percent from last year) and minority members equal 16 percent of the total.

Here’s another piece of the puzzle. Voters are supposed to look at all films in serious contention. This year, that would be about 60. There’s no way of checking how many voters actually do, because viewing is on the honor system. How many of the older, whiter contingent actually saw “Harriet,” about Harriet Tubman, or “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”? Just asking the question. If they did see all the films, were they moved by what they saw? Did they feel the catharsis that’s the basis of all that artists aspire to? Did they understand?

Where am I in this diversity discussion? Fair question. The answer is white, male, old and rich. (I didn’t grow up rich, and the memories of working for minimum wage linger, but I sure am now.) It would be absurd to dispute that and equally absurd to apologize for it. The first two traits are genetic, and the last two are the work of Time the Avenger.
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Well Steve, I guess enough voters watched Harriet because Cynthia Erivo is a double nominee— best lead actress and best song. The Last Black Man... is an indie production that came out of Sundance. Maybe ask A24, the distributor, or Plan B (Brad Pitt), the studio that produced it, why they didn’t mount a campaign for a tiny indie movie that came out six months ago.

King knows how the system works. Someone got mad at his tweets and made him eat shit for it.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Can someone please tell me why in a post Moonlight world these assholes are still whining? Do they really expect every single year only the most "diverse" movies to be nominated?
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You know how this goes. They really just want an excuse to bring everyone's attention back to their supposed victimhood.
 
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frozenrunner said:
You know how this goes. They really just want an excuse to bring everyone's attention back to their supposed victimhood.
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I hate their goal post shifting, it's been proven that it's entirely possible for a "diverse" movie to win but nope, still not good enough, it can't just be a possibility, it has to happen every year (then it would be an argument over "how" diverse a movie is)

Nothing is ever good enough for these clowns, literally all they can do is whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine like a bunch of fucking babies.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I hate their goal post shifting, it's been proven that it's entirely possible for a "diverse" movie to win but nope, still not good enough, it can't just be a possibility, it has to happen every year (then it would be an argument over "how" diverse a movie is)

Nothing is ever good enough for these clowns, literally all they can do is whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine like a bunch of fucking babies.
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They're narcissistic authoritarians. Everything has to be about them all the time because the primary purpose of art is to properly educate/indoctrinate people into their cult of moral uprightness.

But if they get what they want, they can't rest on their laurels because then they won't get to whine and get more attention/asspats. Being happy means they lose social power, so yes, they'll literally never be happy.
 
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frozenrunner said:
They're narcissistic authoritarians. Everything has to be about them all the time because the primary purpose of art is to properly educate/indoctrinate people into their cult of moral uprightness.

But if they get what they want, they can't rest on their laurels because then they won't get to whine and get more attention/asspats. Being happy means they lose social power, so yes, they'll literally never be happy.
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When are people going to learn to tune these assholes out?
 
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King was in a band with amy tan, so I assume friends with her. She is very successful and counts as "diverse".
 
Hey, remember a few years ago when The Birth of a Nation was purchased for a record breaking price at Sundance in the wake of a wave of social media protests about the lack of diversity in the recently announced Oscar nominations? And remember how the director/screenwriter/star, who the press had been trying to build up as the Next Big Thing, was accused of committing a rape years prior and his accuser took her own life? And remember how the movie turned out not to be very good and flopped and how the only movie titled The Birth of a Nation that people still talk about is the racist, albeit groundbreaking, one from 1915? Good times.
 
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Hey, remember a few years ago when The Birth of a Nation was purchased for a record breaking price at Sundance in the wake of a wave of social media protests about the lack of diversity in the recently announced Oscar nominations? And remember how the director/screenwriter/star, who the press had been trying to build up as the Next Big Thing, was accused of committing a rape years prior and his accuser took her own life? And remember how the movie turned out not to be very good and flopped and how the only movie titled The Birth of a Nation that people still talk about is the racist, albeit groundbreaking, one from 1915? Good times.
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I watched that movie a few years ago. The 2015 one. About 3/4's of it.

It's so mediocre. The filming was too dark, the story wasn't intriguing, the dialogue was corny, the acting was stilted, and it felt like another slave history film. No matter how hard people try nothing will ever beat the fictional genealogical epic Roots.
 
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