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Damning study finds a 'whitewashed' Hollywood
Sacramento Bee ^ | February 22, 2016 | JAKE COYLE

Posted on 02/22/2016 5:59:28 AM PST by artichokegrower

In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are "whitewashed," and that an "epidemic of invisibility" runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: black; lgbt; television; white
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LGBT people


LGBT people? Every freakin' TV show I turn on now has a gay guy in it.

1 posted on 02/22/2016 5:59:28 AM PST by artichokegrower
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LGBT people? Every freakin' TV show I turn on now has a gay guy in it.

Or a homosexual in real life playing a straight guy as in: How I met Your Mother, White Collar, Big Bang Theory.

2 posted on 02/22/2016 6:02:17 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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LGBT people

LGBT people? Every freakin’ TV show I turn on now has a gay guy in it.


I totally agree, and every, every white guy is portrayed as a farting couch potato who can’t make any decision except the wrong ones; gratuitous gays, blacks and women are in charge of everything. This is why I shed cable/sat 12 yrs ago...I turn it on at the gym on some exercise equipment and only parts of FauxNews and CNBC and ESPN are safe to watch, but even they delve into the counter-culture. Ugh!

Like Rush says, you can’t reason or make these people happy no matter what.


3 posted on 02/22/2016 6:03:06 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for Cruz or Trump; if one doesn't win, vote the other or lose your Republic.)
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To: N. Theknow

Another thread reported the homosexual actor who plays Sheldon on Big Bang Theory is playing God in a play that demeans and ridicules Him.

I’m sure the homo pervert would never play satan (aka allah).

Hollywood is a cesspool of evil.


4 posted on 02/22/2016 6:05:33 AM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: artichokegrower
...an "epidemic of invisibility" runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people.

Seems impossible as every TV show of the last 20 years has a gay character. A loveable, quirky, good-hearted holier-than-thou and oddly sexless gay who shows all the dumb straight men the right way to be. As well as The Numinous Negro. Or Latino or Latina.

5 posted on 02/22/2016 6:08:12 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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LGBT "invisibility".

They are not invisible at all, they are ubiquitous. Unreal.

The only thing invisible in Hollywood is my money. Absolutely no participation in their brainwashing since 2000. No tv, period.

6 posted on 02/22/2016 6:13:06 AM PST by Atomic Vomit (http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
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“I totally agree, and every, every white guy is portrayed as a farting couch potato “

And I totally agree with all you say.

I enjoy the photography in the new Hawaii 5 0 but don’t watch it any more because of the two main characters spending so much time trying to be funny with each other. At least it’s a fairly clean show. Overall, the new show doesn’t hold a candle to the original one.


7 posted on 02/22/2016 6:13:11 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: newfreep

When are these brave avant garde types produce a play with a Gay Prophet Muhammad.


8 posted on 02/22/2016 6:13:20 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: artichokegrower

Buck up, cupcakes. I have no intention of making any more accomodations for you softshelled wilting lilies.


9 posted on 02/22/2016 6:15:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: MCF

Or maybe they should just start their own movie company.See how that works out.


10 posted on 02/22/2016 6:15:21 AM PST by refermech
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To: Blue Jays

Nearly every product commercial on television features a "confused" white male adult who is then "educated" by his very wise black neighbor.

11 posted on 02/22/2016 6:15:57 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Lazamataz

Bullseye.


12 posted on 02/22/2016 6:19:28 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: MCF

Leftists embrace satan (aka allah) and worship his evil.

They will never no anything that could humiliate their idol.


13 posted on 02/22/2016 6:20:16 AM PST by newfreep (TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Lazamataz

And in every single commercial “dad” is a clueless idiot who can’t tie his own shoes.

L


14 posted on 02/22/2016 6:22:16 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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And of course they are always WHITE bumbling clueless dads.


15 posted on 02/22/2016 6:24:50 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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The "clueless dad" is almost assured.
It is especially comical in automotive commercials...since that industry was created and supported almost exclusively by white males for nearly a century.


16 posted on 02/22/2016 6:27:13 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: artichokegrower

Get back to me when they release a study on producers and studio heads.

Especially how they force actors to prostitute themselves in order to get parts in films and television.


17 posted on 02/22/2016 6:38:14 AM PST by Bratch
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Yeah all those clueless, bumbling, white guys. The same ones that sent rockets and men to the moon with their slide rulers and Trig tables.


18 posted on 02/22/2016 6:39:04 AM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: artichokegrower

The great thing about the USA is that each one of the whiners who complain about the makeup of the current Holly weird has the opportunity to make the change themselves. All they have to do is work. Write something that others want to see. Get the backing to put it on TV, the stage, or radio. And then advertise. But, they would rather whine about lacking opportunity. If the consuming public wants to see what the whiners are offering then they will be successful.


19 posted on 02/22/2016 6:39:11 AM PST by Purdue77 ("...shall not be infringed.")
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To: Rummyfan

While rarely the main character, the Mayor, Chief, Director, or other head honcho is often a minority.

See Bones, Castle, NCIS, Blacklist, Closer, How to Get Away with Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, Empire, Rosewood, Blue Bloods.


20 posted on 02/22/2016 6:43:57 AM PST by Boojum
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