Quality vs. Diversity?

Steven Hale
3 min readJan 16, 2020

False dichotomy, big time.

West Indies playwright and screenwriter Eulalie Spence

Stephen King’s recent twitstorm about writers opting for quality over diversity is an old argument. It’s time to stop thinking fallaciously about films not made by and not focusing on white American men. There is no quality problem, only a perceptual mistake — a very serious one.

What we call Hollywood (i.e. the American film industry) isn’t deliberately racist, sexist…

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Steven Hale

Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.