Reporter gets shut down asking about Oscar’s new diversity requirement.

[Anonymous]

This policy is brought to us by the same people who invited migrants to come with promises of free education & health care, & then were surprised when millions showed up. And got rid of cash bail & were shocked that crime increased. On and on. Their plans are stupid, superficial, & driven by emotion. They are children.

[Anonymous]

Politics in the entertainment forum? Yawn.

[Anonymous]

This whole thread is about politics, moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is about politics, moron.

DP..what kind of rude response is this? Reading fail? PP was pointing out that political posts don't belong in the entertainment forum.

[Anonymous]

Everything is political now. Sports, education, medicine, entertainment, immigration, law enforcement, the weather, cars, food, math, science….

[Anonymous]

Totally ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Because they apparently have to bent over backwards to overrepresent 13% of the population in every show, movie, ad, commercial, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be an exemption if it is a historical piece….

If the movie was about the Russian Revolution in 1918, I would expect the cast to be all Russian. I would not expect to see any Asian, Latino, African Americans as they were not present there at that time.

Would be weird to see a Latino Russian army general?

I think the larger question is the retelling of the SAME stories over and over that at their core are exclusive. All sorts of people lived during WW2 around the world, but we see the same folks stories told over and over again. By same folks the same ones that occupy the history books and newspaper headlines. Yes, I mean Oppenheimer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be an exemption if it is a historical piece….

If the movie was about the Russian Revolution in 1918, I would expect the cast to be all Russian. I would not expect to see any Asian, Latino, African Americans as they were not present there at that time.

Would be weird to see a Latino Russian army general?

I think the larger question is the retelling of the SAME stories over and over that at their core are exclusive. All sorts of people lived during WW2 around the world, but we see the same folks stories told over and over again. By same folks the same ones that occupy the history books and newspaper headlines. Yes, I mean Oppenheimer.

Because they make movies people want to see. It's all about the money. If other movies were profitable, we'd see more of them. Global audiences don't want those other stories.

[Anonymous]

Troll post from a right-wing new site that embarrassed itself

"We do have a big plot line about a girl of color who is being subjected to racism. "

Uh oh, they went woke!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Politics in the entertainment forum? Yawn.

They deserve an award for finding a way to make the dumbest forum in DCUM even dumber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A much better way to promote industry diversity is via training and apprenticeship programs aimed at underrepresented groups. The biggest barriers at this point are not in getting hired on a film once you are in the industry, it's getting the requisite training and developing contacts to get started in the first place.

They are trying to do it backwards with "hire more diverse casts, crews, writers and directors!" Ok, that's a great hiring program for people who already have the bona fides to get hired. Who, diverse or not, are likely to be in that position due to family connections or other privilege.

If you actually want diversity of voices in the industry, every studio, agency, union, and trade group should have an apprenticeship program with open applications (no nepo babies allowed) and a preference for underrepresented groups (so you are more likely to get a spot in the set design apprentice program if you are from a underrepresented group).

Then you'll have a more diverse pool of people to hire.

Do you mean like this:

Standard C: The film’s production, distribution or financing companies offer paid internship or apprenticeships and training opportunities for people from underrepresented groups.

Which is one of the three ways that a film can qualify?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any of you folks yapping about diversity hires realize how effing bigoted you sound with your blanket assumptions that the minorities are de facto unqualified?

I mean, can you even really hear yourselves?

My Gen X heart is now broken as you hurl the expected “bigoted” pseudo-insult at me. Even worse, you said my opinion was just “yapping”! How shall I go on?!

[Anonymous]

Hopefully they replace everyone with ai