And you're putting words in my mouth here - I mean it only as that there should be examples of MANY cultures to balance out the picture. (and possibly better aggregation that gives "girl" scores, "Black dude" scores, etc rather than one-size fits most as we use right now.
I took it (and on a reread, still take it) as "We need more diversity ADDED to the pool of reviewers to give all movies a fair shake even if they're outside of the normal white male target demo". Which is true, that would make for better reviewing, especially for those niche groups.
My kids are growing up in a neighborhood with black, Asian, Hispanic, and Indian kids. If one from each family becomes movie reviewers than there is little to no added diversity since they all grew up in the same place, went to the same schools, and had the same general upbringing.
Color and gender do not tell you shit about the types of diversity that would truly matter in a movie review.
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