Speaking as a Black person in the United States, I am quite amazed by the gross amount of insult I can endure. But I do not know how much longer I can endure it. And, so, Effie Brown’s expression speaks multitudes; it is the very reaction I have when White liberals feel compelled to tell me about myself and what I…
Every time I hear a white artist™ talk about how creative white people are, I think about American music.
Rock, blues, jazz, hip hop, gospel, soul, funk, techno, house, disco were all largely created by a group that has never been more than 20% of the population.
Every time I think of a “creative” white man, I think of…
I read down most of the replies, and am puzzled by the fact that most of the comments are about how he said it versus WHAT HE SAID. HE SAID THERE DOESN'T NEED TO BE DIVERSITY BEHIND THE CAMERA! I can only assume that the overwhelming race of the posters on this board is white.
Intersectional feminism. PLEASE LOOK IT UP.
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Nothing is more annoying than entitled white liberals who think they know everything, and immediately get defensive whenever someone calls them out on their BS when they are wrong. I’m mad that she practically had to humble herself, even before giving her opinion, because she knew people would look at her the wrong…
There are plenty of women and POC who go to film school. Even using just women as an example. This is not a stem field where they are hurting for applicants. About 50% of film school graduates are women. So why is the percentage of women in this industry so fucking low? Even if it was 40% or 30%, how sad is it that…
From what I remember you did. One was called Birth of A Nation, the other was called Soul Man.
What they can’t see is that the project never had any integrity. While they can always nod their heads when we say that film is a corrupt system which shuts out certain races and genders, that’s in the abstract. None of them is going to admit that their personal film is contributing to that. *They* had to have picked…
Okay, Matt, here’s the deal with undermining the “integrity” of film—it’s already undermined. I know you don’t understand that, because you, a white male, your white male friend, your white male comedy mentor, and your white male director succeeded super early by telling the story about a put-upon white male boy…
I didn’t say that he doesn’t deserve to win. My point is that he was chosen because he is going to be “good television.” After his interview, everyone in the room clearly did not want to work with him. But it was obvious that his is a personality that will create drama and be demanding and impossible to work with. And…
Too much success and too much time in Hollywood has given Damon the “I know what’s best for you little girl” vibe.
And this is why we get Affirmative Action.
I always love when white people tell me what racism is when they rarely have to deal with it or just read about it in a book. I have literally had two white women in my life tell me that having guns pulled out on me when I was 14 by the cops when I was just walking home from school was somehow my fault because it…
Basically this show is a case study in why institutional racism in Hollywood isn’t going anywhere for a long time. Almost everybody in the room was a white guy, almost all the applicants were white guys, and what did they do? They hired a white guy. Because apparently accounting for a different perspective in hiring a…
And of course the person they ultimately chose is so white he is almost translucent. Damon says the only factor in choosing him is “merit” but it seems apparent they chose him because he is going to be the biggest pain in the ass and create the most drama. I imagine most Hollywood directors are pompous and pretentious…
They picked the bald white artsy dude because they all knew he would be controversial and cause a lot of friction during the process of trying to make a broad comedy as he specializes in sardonic art films and this will make for better ratings. They likely do not care overmuch about how good or bad or politically…
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are insufferable assholes and I don’t know why we keep rewarding them for it. Ben made a terrible white savior movie and then played himself in Gone Girl. What about that qualifies him for comeback status? I will never get over the time that he was like “I don’t want to be seen as some…
The funny part about the rhetoric of people like Matt Damon is the fact that they keep pushing the fallacious reason that things right now are based on strict merit.
But the cynical side of me thinks it was included because he felt he had made his point well and wanted the world to hear it.