The entire framing of @StephenKing’s statement is problematic, because his statement sure comes across to me as though he thinks that diversity is the enemy of good storytelling, that to choose diversity will decrease the quality off storytelling.
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Of course the guy who writes the exact same characters in every single story wouldn't care about diversity
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I just ‘love’ people who cry for neutrality and individual choice and ignore the history of bigotry as though it never happened. Art? Who decides what is best?
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Well, I know a guy who decides art...
@ArtDecider But in all seriousness, diversity allows for greater quality, since there's a wider range of art and storytelling available.
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He might not have a point even then, because getting art from a variety of viewpoints is a net good all of its own. If you'd seen 99 excellent movies by/about white American men, seeing another one would benefit you less than even a just okay film about any other type of person.
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What the hell? "...I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality." As if quality is well defined and something 100% agreed upon. Many quality works had been rejected mulitiple times.
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Wasn’t that the point of Persig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? If you don’t use a quantifiable adjective as a modifier for “quality” you go nuts?
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Even more subtle are the effects of implicit bias. Even if the judges are all woke, implicit bias will steer them.
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