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Stephen King Says Art Should Be Judged On ‘Quality’ Not ‘Diversity,’ Gets Torched By Leftists Online

Emily Zanotti
Stephen King Says Art Should Be Judged On ‘Quality’ Not ‘Diversity,’ Gets Torched By Leftists Online
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Author — and reliable progressive critic of President Donald Trump — Stephen King made waves with the leftist online outrage mob Tuesday when he suggested that the Oscars honored “quality,” and that Oscar voters didn’t need to be concerned about “diversity.”

The Oscar nominations, released Monday, made their own waves in among leftists who complained that no women were nominated for Best Director (even though Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” received a Best Picture nod) and that few people of color were nominated overall. The Academy Awards, they said, lacked “diversity,” and “#OscarsSoWhite,” a hashtag from several years ago, began trending again as social justice warriors grappled with knowing that the progressive elite Oscar voters had once again failed to honor women and minorities.

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