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Of course, lurking around in the background of this issue lies another of contemporary progressivism’s petty pathologies: the utter inability to acknowledge progress. Because the simple fact of the matter is that movies and TV shows and all manner of other creative industries are now vastly more diverse than they were a decade ago. Great progress has been made. Great and durable progress, it seems to me. And we can’t have that! Few rules in American left-of-center circles are more lustily enforced than the prohibition against acknowledging that things have gotten better. And so all of the vast increase in diversity and representation in the past decade are ignored, the concept of proportionality is not discussed, how we recognize success is avoided, and all of these endlessly-gifed moments and countless breathless headlines are constantly aggregated and yet never allowed to inform our opinion of reality.