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'#BAFTAsSoWhite' trends as race row explodes over all-white acting nominations... and even Academy boss admits she's 'very disappointed with the lack of diversity'
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 7, 2020 | Eve Buckland

Posted on 01/07/2020 6:38:04 AM PST by C19fan

#BAFTAsSoWhite is trending on Twitter after a race row erupted over the all-white acting nominations.

Academy boss, Amanda Berry, admitted she was 'very disappointed' over the lack of diversity following Tuesday morning's announcement, which saw not a single actor of colour honoured in the major acting categories.

BAFTA was heavily criticised after the nominations were revealed, with movie fans taking to social media with the hashtag to call out Lupita Nyong'o's snub for Us, while Margot Robbie was nominated twice in the Supporting Actress category.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: race
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Here we go again. As Ricky Gervais joked the list of industry dead people was not very diverse in 2019 so just skip it and hope for dead people of color in 2020.
1 posted on 01/07/2020 6:38:04 AM PST by C19fan
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Awards must now have affirmative action nominees.


2 posted on 01/07/2020 6:39:35 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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And to think some of the left were offended by what he said, only to live up to every word RIGHT HERE!


3 posted on 01/07/2020 6:40:08 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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I guess that the next step is to dictate to the members the people for whom they shall vote.


4 posted on 01/07/2020 6:41:09 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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which saw not a single actor of colour honoured

Maybe none of them merited it?

I guess that's racist...

6 posted on 01/07/2020 6:41:26 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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Why don’t they just create a separate but equal token awards?
Problem solved


7 posted on 01/07/2020 6:41:37 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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Blah, blah, blah


8 posted on 01/07/2020 6:41:42 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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Hideously white!


9 posted on 01/07/2020 6:42:13 AM PST by Jakarta ex-pat
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A year or two ago, blacks won every category. Good grief they are greedy.


10 posted on 01/07/2020 6:42:23 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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How many were LGBTQWERTY?

How many were disabled?

How many were Trans-mutations?

How many were poor and refugees from an evil American war?

How many were Climate change Social Justice Warriors?...................


11 posted on 01/07/2020 6:43:11 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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These awards are so stupid that it takes a village of idiots to care!


12 posted on 01/07/2020 6:44:05 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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Love to see liberal socialists FAIL in their own virtue signalling, bringing on self doubt and guilt and apologies for being born white..

Is it not true that we now have gene therapy so that any human can become black?

It will make a fortune for the Company that markets it to this sordid collective of LEWDZERS !


13 posted on 01/07/2020 6:44:07 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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NAACP and IMAGE awards were supposed to take care of that. I guess they want it all.


14 posted on 01/07/2020 6:44:08 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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I love it how Hollywood is immolating itself over identity politics.

It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of folks.


15 posted on 01/07/2020 6:44:34 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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How many wyppl nominated at the BET awards?


16 posted on 01/07/2020 6:46:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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Acting awards is like getting an award for getting your shoes on the right foot,sometimes egos need to be crushed just to keep them sane.


17 posted on 01/07/2020 6:46:37 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Awards must now have affirmative action nominees.

My wife is a teacher in the public school system of one of the wealthiest counties in the country. The county runs a gifted and talented program for students who are, well, gifted and talented. The brass has now decided that a certain percentage of the program must be occupied by kids who are not gifted and talented, but have certain other identifiable characteristics. This, of course, waters down the program for the truly gifted and talented kids. Liberals ruin everything they touch.

18 posted on 01/07/2020 6:48:06 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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Well, when you SUCK at something, you should not be rewarded for SUCKING.

Contrary to the belief that everyone is a winner

19 posted on 01/07/2020 6:53:07 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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No one is willing to face up to the fact that g is heritable to some certain large extent, and matters.


20 posted on 01/07/2020 6:54:51 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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