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Steven King’s Not Woke?
Has yet another beloved figure fallen from grace?
Steven King’s tweet about diversity in the Oscars has the internet up-in-arms. It’s not hard to understand why. He tweeted,
“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 … I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.”
Has the world blown this comment out of proportion? Or have we just discovered a dark truth about this famous author?
What did he mean?
Now that I’ve read King’s tweet a couple of times, I find it to be poorly expressed. It seems absurd for someone like me to be criticizing his writing, but as an average reader, I find myself guessing at the point he’s trying to make.
What does King mean when he writes, “I would never consider diversity in matters of art”?
