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 Annenbergs 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.
Satan is clapping his hands in glee. Another win against America's Judeo-Christian base.
The important thing is to have less Whites, because Whites are all privileged oppressors.
That has been true for all of the centuries of feminism.
And the father actually cares for his kids.
Of course not; that is too stifling.
All films produced by firms or companies adopting that rider, will be performing a public service.
Perhaps they can adopt a thingie like "PG" or "XXXX" so we don't even have to waste time reading the reviews...
It can cover all identity politics : sex, national origin, color (except white), religion (except Christianity), sexual orientation (except heterosexual, can't fit all 60 perversions and deviancies).
I can then extend my 4 year record of not patronizing public movie theaters indefinitely...
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck better be preparing to find themselves a new (real) job...
Will there be inclusion riders for movie theatres as well that require White customers to take their lives into their own hands every few times by attending a film with a mostly-Black cast?
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