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Matt Damon, Ben Affleck Production Company to Adopt Inclusion Rider
Hollywood Reporter ^ | March 12, 2018 | Patrick Shanley

Posted on 03/13/2018 7:41:42 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are adopting inclusion riders for projects made through their Pearl Street Films, according to head of strategic outreach at the production company, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni.

"On behalf of Pearl Street Films, Matt Damon, @BenAffleck, Jennifer Todd, Drew Vinton & I will be adopting the #InclusionRider for all of our projects moving forward," Cox DiGiovanni tweeted Monday, responding to Michael B. Jordan's tweet from last week in which he announced that his production company, Outlier Society, would also begin adopting inclusion riders.

An inclusion rider is a reference to the belief by some that there should be requirements in contracts that provide for gender and racial diversity.

While Stacy Smith, director of USC Annenberg’s Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative, first introduced the idea of the inclusion rider in a 2014 guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Frances McDormand brought the idea into the spotlight recently during her best actress Oscar acceptance speech at the 90th annual Academy Awards. According to Smith, the rider focuses on improving diversity in select below-the-line jobs (cinematographer, production designer, sound, 1st and 2nd AD, editor, visual effects and composer) and supporting roles that do not affect “story sovereignty” or interfere with financing or insurance.

A request for comment from Affleck and Damon was not immediately returned.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; antiwhiteracism; benaffleck; discriminiation; endwhiteshaming; francesmcdormand; hollywood; inclusionrider; mattdamon; puthiminhisplace; racism; waronwhites
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To: EdnaMode

(Raising my hand here)
So, if you’re a great white male editor or lighting guy, can you “come out” as gay or something to still get good gigs??? Or is your career pretty much done in the Industry?


21 posted on 03/13/2018 7:58:35 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

WE NEED WARNING LABELS FOR HOLLYWOOD!!

Nov 20, 2013 - Many cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have reported deleterious effects of television (TV) viewing on the cognitive abilities, attention, behaviors, and academic performance of children (Johnson et al. 2002, 2007; Christakis et al. 2004). Longer TV viewing was associated with lower intelligence
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/25/5/1188/311796

But did you know that TV can actually be harmful to you? Television viewing can, for example, increase your risk of premature death, reduce your level of intelligence, completely obliterate your ability to concentrate, physically impair the growing child brain, and increase your risk of developing neurodegenerative brain ...

https://www.eruptingmind.com/effects-of-tv-on-brain/


22 posted on 03/13/2018 7:59:00 AM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: robroys woman

It would be kind of fun if people DONT fall in line and actors who don’t include these SJW riders get more work. Heh heh. Why wouldn’t you want the best people for your crew? Why do you care whether they have a penis, a vagina, dark skin, light skin?


23 posted on 03/13/2018 8:00:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

How about sticking to the writer’s original characters instead of making Little Orphan Annie and Dorothy Gale black. Imagine the outcry if we made the cast of Oprah’s The Color Purple all white.


24 posted on 03/13/2018 8:01:02 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: A_Former_Democrat

That’s just the way Democrats like it: white rich liberals in the top positions and minorities being “the help.”


25 posted on 03/13/2018 8:01:33 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: eyeamok

Emma Watson put a warning label on herself. She can't spell - "Times Up"

26 posted on 03/13/2018 8:08:20 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: EdnaMode
And the stupidity continues unabated.

Does my heart good to see Hollywood types commit slow suicide.
27 posted on 03/13/2018 8:09:51 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: EdnaMode

What pathetic virtue signalling...”oh I’m so great! I support the right for unqualified people to take positions over those that deserve it!!”.

They’re basically saying “don’t hire white males”. They’re OK with discrimination....knowing it won’t hurt them. Pathetic.


28 posted on 03/13/2018 8:10:11 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

So the chances are they will have to hire 2 unqualified people to do the job badly, as opposed to the previous white guy who knew what was going on.


29 posted on 03/13/2018 8:15:37 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: EdnaMode

Black Mexican General Custer


30 posted on 03/13/2018 8:16:41 AM PDT by TheNext
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To: EdnaMode

Nothing like affirmative action to make your product suck.


31 posted on 03/13/2018 8:17:11 AM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: bgill

LOL. She should have paid more attention in grammar. Or is she the one who dropped out of school in 7th grade to pursue a career of putting out to become a star?


32 posted on 03/13/2018 8:18:20 AM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: TheNext

You just, but they made the gods in Thor multi-racial.

There are black Klingons now on Star Trek.

There were complaints about the lack of diversity in DUNKIRK! Rewrite history to add black soldiers? Sure. Facts don’t matter to leftists.


33 posted on 03/13/2018 8:18:45 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: EdnaMode

I’ll celebrate by watching a few episodes of Amos and Andy on Youtube.


34 posted on 03/13/2018 8:20:24 AM PDT by anton
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To: EdnaMode

Notice how many blacks there are in commercials these days? And in ad world, every black family lives in an upscale neighborhood and drives a Lexus or a Subaru.


35 posted on 03/13/2018 8:22:52 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: EdnaMode

inclusion riders


..or restricted covenant..that no white straight male can be hired.

They dress it up anyway they want, it is pure and simple discrimination.


36 posted on 03/13/2018 8:22:59 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: eyeamok

“We hear people say things like,
‘I hate these hateful people.
I’m sure that nothing’s sure.
I’m absolutely confident there are no absolutes,
and I can’t tolerate your intolerance.’

It’s self-refuting at every turn. The reason we see this is because we started teaching this type of nihilism and intellectual relativism and intellectual mush some three, four, five decades ago.

- President Everett Piper, Oklahoma Wesleyan University


37 posted on 03/13/2018 8:26:52 AM PDT by donna (Chelsea Manning is Obama's legacy.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"So discriminatory hiring is okay if it is to push a quota agenda?"

The left always exempts itself from rules and standards that it applies to others.
38 posted on 03/13/2018 8:27:43 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: EdnaMode

Two white guys in charge. Hmmmmmm....


39 posted on 03/13/2018 8:29:03 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: donna
"It’s self-refuting at every turn. The reason we see this is because we started teaching this type of nihilism and intellectual relativism and intellectual mush some three, four, five decades ago."

It - the long march through the institutions - started to gain steam back in the late 60's when I was in college.
40 posted on 03/13/2018 8:29:25 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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