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As funny as your remark about the lack of interest on HN about the Kardashians, that is exactly the point of the article. His provocative statement points out
by PappaPatat 8y ago
As funny as your remark about the lack of interest on HN about the Kardashians, that is exactly the point of the article.
His provocative statement points out a problem you, me & HN will be subject to too: there can not be any exclusion anymore. And that (exclusion) exactly is what makes HN / Monty Python so great.
- smt88 8y agoYour comment seems to be saying that excluding minorities and women is good. You seem to be saying that racial bias can be a form of editing/filtering to ensure quality. Can you clarify? To read your comment as charitably as possible, you (and Terry Gilliam) either misunderstand what diversity advocates want or believe all minorities are less funny and would be underrepresented in a true meritocracy. Again, no one is saying that an ensemble like Python be injected with minority members. They're just saying that we should give more opportunities to the black or Arab or gay versions of Pythons, or we should at least cast diverse actors when we're creating an ensemble from scratch. A good case in point is Saturday Night Live: its biggest stars of the last 20 years have mostly been women or minorities, and it wasn't due to "affirmative action". Audiences picked them out of the crowd of actors they were seeing and loved their work.