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Diversity Is Crap

I was browsing a comic book in the store yesterday, surprised to find superheroes obsessed with being gay?? Now this seemed rather strange to me because I understood comics are power fantasies of heroes doing good. And why did they all keep talking? Text covered half the page, enough so it was boring to readers of any age. When I looked into it online I saw mad lefties slur anyone who dared point this out, they bad-mouthed all concerns. I guess I now understand why manga fills the sales rack, woke comics read like root-canals; Diversity is crap. I went down to the cinema, wanted to blow off steam, relieve stress by watching heroes stomp hard on villains mean, and see some really hot people, fantasies of beauty, instead I got feminist girl trying to lecture me. Twig-thin girl fighting full-sized men, doing it with her fists?! Stopping to make quippy remarks on how men deserved this? This is supposed to bring us joy, a relief to our minds? If cinema is joyless slog then It just wastes my time... all the pedos in Hollywood telling me what I lack? Then wonder why their films don’t sell: Diversity is crap. I was looking for a novel, saw one with an award, took a chance that it might be just what I was looking for. But the damn thing had no structure, poor characters, no arcs, with little real consistency, and much lacking in heart. So I left a two-star review, and commenters god mad, said I must be a real ‘racist’ to think this book was bad?? That the writer came from 'the streets,' and his ‘struggle was real,’ maybe, but the man’s writing craft didn’t make readers feel. The idea I should like something because someone is black is nonsense if they have no skill, Diversity is crap. I saw a story on the news of a bridge that fell down, killed seven people when it went plunging hard to the ground. Word came out that the engineers missed several safety steps, but then the news buried it all, though it wasn’t done yet. Turns out that they hired the team so they could look diverse, rights faces, genders, all of that, but none who’d done real work. This didn’t ‘help the narrative,’ so it all ‘went away,’ much like the seven people who didn’t come home that day. Physics, however, doesn’t care, that much is a clear fact. It ruins all that it infects, Diversity is crap. Excellence, now strive for that.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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