CNN Diversity Police Give Hollywood a Taste of Its Own Medicine
So, the Academy Award nominations have been announced, and you know what that means: another article about lack of diversity in Academy Award nominations.
CNN.com points out that even Javier Bardem, up for best actor, doesn’t count, because he’s “European.”
Making him white – and of course, a monster.
Anyway, CNN frets that the diversity among movie audiences isn’t reflected in the awards, something I’d like to agree with, since I hate Hollywood.
I mean, Tinseltown is a place where if you’re in the military, you’re a psycho; if you’re from a square state, you bully gays; and if you wear a suit, you’re racist. The only person who retains any nobility in a Hollywood film these days are animated and transgendered.
So it’s fun to see the film industry get a dose of their own medicine.
Except, it’s wrong.
To me, it’s racist to assume a diverse audience expects “diverse” movies. Meaning, blacks can’t enjoy The Social Network because everyone is white; and Greeks will hate Black Swan, because the ballerinas aren’t hairy.
Fact is, all people want the same thing – good movies that tell great stories – color be damned.
Here’s my solution: get a diversity expert to assign the roles. Why couldn’t Mark Zuckerberg be played by a Korean lesbian? Frankly, The Kings Speech would have been far more entertaining if said King was played by that big gal from Precious.
Even better, I would have enjoyed Black Swan more if Kevin James was the swan, not Ms. Portman. As a pudgy white guy, It would make me feel better about myself.
And that’s the point. As a nation now perceived as a collection of diverse groups who share no common ideals – making sure everyone feels good about themselves ensures no one will be happy.
Which is why Sex and the City 2 got robbed.
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Hey you moronic vermin!!
Submitted by Patriot II on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:37pm.
Stick diversity in your butt..............right next to political correctness......just shows how completely stupid this country has become and how much bullshyt they have swallowed from the communists in this govt!!!!
I hate this diversity stuff
Submitted by octavioj on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:49pm.
So what? I sometimes enjoy movies with all black casts, sometimes they simply do not fit the narrative. And it also permeates TV as well. Did anyone notice every new sitcom now MUST have a gay character? MUST have an African-American? And recently MUST have a Hispanic character? Good thing most of the writers are still reasonably good and they can fit those characters in.
Kevin James as the Black Swan . . .
Submitted by ajkrik on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:50pm.
. . . now that might actually be a funny movie!
On a similar note ...
Submitted by IgnatzJFahrquar on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:51pm.
Ohio's new Govenor, John Kasich -R, is being hammered by the "usual suspects" in regard to his all white cabinet.
Pretty much any minority group in the State (and probably more than few, out of it) are up in arms and even say that a few of the chosen cabinet members should be dropped and replaced with minorities.
Kasich's reply ... basically, "Go pound salt". He has stated that he chose the members on skill, in addition to the fact that a few minority candidates were approached/offered, but turned the position down.
I'm hoping he stands firm.
Ken Blackwell's comment
Submitted by jgarcia on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 10:58am.
One of the very few times I have ever been impressed by Mr. Blackwell comments:
Former secretary of state, Republican Ken Blackwell, said he is assisting Kasich in finding people to fill remaining cabinet positions.
"It's unfortunate that people are not willing to sit down and put together a network of contacts that would give the governor choices, but they are willing and ready to play political games of one-upmanship," Blackwell said. (sou
Don't feel sorry
Submitted by ArchieBunker on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:52pm.
Don't feel sorry for Spaniards, yes, they are technically "Hispanics" (the original ones if you will,) but they have as much right to the government spoils system known as (Affirmative Action) as Italian Americans or Greeks for that matter. Many of these white European descendants of colonizers play the "me poor Latino" card in our universities, at major corporations etc. Don't be fooled by a Hispanic surname. They are not "minorities".
Social diversity
Submitted by Zepppo on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:55pm.
The problem isn't racial diversity. The problem is obviously that movie makers focus too much on making money and not enough on increasing social conciousness. This is why we need to borrow more money from the communist, so the government can finance movies that will better showcase our hoorible treatment of minorities and dissidents in this country. We need to make more people aware of the terrible injustices (and crimes against humanity, like arresting people in front of their children or in the middle of the night for crimes they committed) that go on over here. We need to be saved from ourselves, not see another mindless piece of entertaining fluff.
Maybe Michael Moore or John Kerry, or Keith Olbermann or Katie Couric or Bill Gates or other bleeding heart millionaire and billionaire liberals, who think other millionaires are too rich, will use some of their millions to fund these movies so more talented black female directors can get a well-deserved oscar for their works of fiction like "An Inconvient Truth" did.
I Await
Submitted by Gothampc on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 1:35pm.
I am breathlessly waiting the opinions of Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Rosie O'Donnell and Joy Behar. Surely something of this magnitude should elicit a comment about their chosen profession.
When the
Submitted by sam12663 on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 2:14pm.
Congressional Black Caucus allows white people to join, I will worry about diversity.
I guess we need affirmative action in Hollywood now.
Screw 'em all.
Diversity is a Constitutional
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 4:02pm.
Diversity is a Constitutional requirement because of the 14th Amendment when there is state action and the entity is a 'white' one. (Doesn't apply to things like the Black Caucus).
That doesn't mean people necessarily want it in their entertainment. Probably why latinos mostly watch their own 'Spanish' channels. Here in San Francisco, there are multiple 'Asian' channels. Then there are channels like BET. Why no diversity at BET?
NAACP Image Awards? LINK
BET Awards? LINK
ALMA Awards? LINK
Besides, how many roles can they give Halle Barry?
Thats nonsence Mostly...how
Submitted by bassndude on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 5:48pm.
Thats nonsence Mostly...how is it that diversity dont apply to the black cacus. It would apply to a white cacus! If it is constitutional, it is equal for all under the law. If one group is exempt, it cannot be, by defination, constitutional.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Hey, I'm on your side. I
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 7:46pm.
Hey, I'm on your side. I don't think there should be a Black Caucus either and I definitely don't think it is Constitutional. Just saying, for some reason THEY get away with it.
Unfortunately, mostlymoderate, "THEY"---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 12:16am.
aren't getting away with anything; they are being racist and no one has the guts to call them out for it.
I would have absolutely no problem whatsoever with any all Black organization that legally attempts to further the aims of it's members while doing so in a considerate manner.
"Considerate" meaning not screaming like a mashed cat about how racist whites would be for having an all white organization.
Liberals, Democrats, members of academia, and minorities all talk piously about the virtues of diversity so long as they are allowed to define it's essence in their terms.
That SUCKS.
MD
Academy Awards
Submitted by truckinmann on Sat, 01/29/2011 - 9:29am.
Why would anyone actually care about the academy awards? The whole show is just a bunch of elitist, millionaire, pantywastes, gathering together to tell each other how good communism is and how evil the capitalist society, that made them rich for portraying someone they aren't in real life, is. Their are no blacks nominated this year? So? Who cares? They've done this to create controversy, pure and simple. They figure it's one way to get people to watch them show off how wealthy and beautiful they are while pretending they promote diversity and tolerance. Don't be surprised if some lamebrained lib actor or actress comes up with a "fairness in nomination ribbon" for the academy awards.
The Oscars are nothing but a big circle jerk
Submitted by falcon on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:05pm.
There, I said it.
The Academy Awards are nothing more than a self-aggrandizing, patting each other on the back, fawning, kiss-up spectacle, and why we don't tune out is totally beyond me.
Why don't we think more about the real issues of the day, instead of focusing on whiny, leftist, elitist "actors" who couldn't truly "act" their way out of a wet paper sack? Why do we care who makes it to the final 12 on "American Idol?" Why do people in general want to bury their heads in the sand?
Had "American Idol" been around in 1775, it's doubtful we'd even be America today, because the Minutemen would have been glued to the TV instead of fighting the Redcoats.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
The Eternal Whine
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 8:18am.
There's always something to whine about for the diversity set, and it's always something unimportant. Because of its very nature as something unimportant, a big hue and cry must be made, or otherwise, people might stop obsessing about race for a single second in the day and I don't know, do something important? Shut. Up. Already. About. It. No-one cares and the more we get lectured to by racists because we're supposedly racists, the less we care. I don't want to hear ludicrous comparisons to firehoses, dogs, and slavery anymore, when no-one alive has experienced slavery and segregation is a distant memory. Anything to keep the hate alive, and to keep your power base of uninformed minority groups from becoming Americans, I guess. I wish we could arrest all the diversity mongers as traitors. That would make my day.
Visions and Principles blog
One of the video projects I work on concerns diversity...
Submitted by falcon on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:08pm.
...and the sad thing is, most of the company employees we interviewed for this series said what they thought the company wanted them to say. They didn't say how they truly feel about diversity. And when I spoke informally to other employees, they decry the fact that people are being put in jobs for which they have no qualifications, but they're "diverse," so they get the nod.
I think the person behind this series is so focused on making everyone "diverse" that she's making everyone the same, and she doesn't get it. It's not about diversity. It's about inclusion and valuing the talents everyone has. Not about making sure there's one of every kind of ethnicity on a team. If you don't have the skills I need, you don't play. I don't care what your color is.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Greg, you crack me up
Submitted by falcon on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:00pm.
Your post reminds me of the line uttered by "Syndrome" (totally appropriate name, that one) from The Incredibles - "And when everybody's super - no one is."
When we focus so much on "diversity" we lose sight of the fact that everybody has talents and abilities that set them apart from others. And that makes them - dare I say it? - unique. Diversity removes "uniqueness" from the equation in favor of mixing up the colors into some gray melange, where no one has value.
And it's the planet-destroying Liberals that are doing this. Their goal is the destruction of America first, then the destruction of the human race - if we don't get around to destroying the planet first in wars over resources (as in "spreading the wealth", meaning taking what belongs to someone else and giving it to others that didn't earn it and don't deserve it).
Sorry to ruin the mood, Greggo.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.