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The spreadsheet that shook the theater world: Marie Cisco’s ‘Not Speaking Out’ list
LA Times ^ | June 9, 2020 | Jessica Galt

Posted on 06/11/2020 10:13:48 AM PDT by C19fan

Marie Cisco was fed up. America was in turmoil, rocked to its core by the brutal killing of George Floydat the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis. Protests against systemic racism and injustice had been raging for five days, and the nation’s theaters were excruciatingly silent in expressing support. Cisco, a producer who has worked with the New York-based National Black Theatre, the Public Theater, Lee Daniels Entertainment and the Apollo Theater, was not surprised by the crickets coming from these institutions — self-professed bastions of liberalism and equality — but she felt hurt and angry all the same. So Cisco created a public Google spreadsheet and titled it “Theaters Not Speaking Out.” It was open for anyone to edit, and it had a simple directive: “Add names to this document who have not made a statement against injustices toward black people.”

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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywoodreds; mccarthywasright; politicalpurge; race
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To: Wuli

“Systemic racism”, “disparate impact”, etc, are just ways to pretend racism is still a real problem when we can no longer find any evidence for it.


21 posted on 06/11/2020 10:43:48 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

Well, they are all shut down because of the COVID lockdowns, and most are laid off right now, so maybe there is nobody at the office to write apologetic press releases.


22 posted on 06/11/2020 10:59:03 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: uranium penguin
We have reached the point of the cultural revolution.

Here's the issue: at some point a real pushback needs to start or we are done as a nation. However the Pentagon is totally woke, big tech is tracking us all and silencing all dissent from woke speech. The big corporations have signed off on fascism and will be on board with silencing customers and firing employees who speak out. The media is serving up straight up revolutionary propaganda and because of the aforementioned censorship by bug tech their voice is rapidly becoming the only voice.

The left has marshaled their forces, we're still laying in our beds thinking 'gee, what's all that noise outside?'

23 posted on 06/11/2020 11:01:43 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“And it will soon be clear that “systemic racism” is the new name for Capitalism.”

It already is; capitalism is just another aspect of “systemic racism” according to the new and approved “correct thought”.


24 posted on 06/11/2020 11:04:50 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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To: A_perfect_lady

That’s been the case since the term was created. Amazing that so many are blind.


25 posted on 06/11/2020 11:13:40 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: DiogenesLamp

The new dictators need to write the script with the exact words to be spoken—breaking silence is too risky otherwise.

:-(


26 posted on 06/11/2020 11:15:56 AM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Stravinsky

Well, I think many of the left have made a deliberate attempt to smokescreen it. Words like “progressive” and “transformative” and “authentic” are the pretty butterfly wings meant to distract you from the fact that in the end, it’s just a bug.


27 posted on 06/11/2020 11:27:12 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: dfwgator
What was the ribbon supposed to be for?

Oh, I was one of those people who never felt the need to watch that show, Seinfeld I think it was.

28 posted on 06/11/2020 11:28:22 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Boogieman
“Systemic racism”, “disparate impact”, etc, are just ways to pretend racism is still a real problem when we can no longer find any evidence for it.

I'm waiting for someone with a platform to point out that our black athletes getting rich off Nike shoes made by slave labor in China are immersed in this "racist" system while still claiming that they, billionaires, are oppressed by me, teacher living in one bedroom apartment who spent 14 years paying off her student loan.

29 posted on 06/11/2020 11:29:43 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: higgmeister

“Oh, I was one of those people who never felt the need to watch that show, Seinfeld I think it was.”

Nobody “felt the need to”. They watched it because they thought it was funny.


30 posted on 06/11/2020 11:44:35 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: higgmeister
Oh, I was one of those people who never felt the need to watch that show, Seinfeld I think it was.


31 posted on 06/11/2020 2:15:00 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: dfwgator

Just wait, it’ll be pulled from all reruns and streaming services soon.


32 posted on 06/11/2020 2:21:06 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming

If for nothing else, Michael Richard’s comments.


33 posted on 06/11/2020 2:24:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Magic Fingers; TangoLimaSierra
I think it was the fact that it was Northerners living in a metropolitan area that I had no affinity for.   I still to this moment have idea why anyone would laugh at "a show about nothing" as they say.

To that same degree, I cannot understand watching ice hockey.

34 posted on 06/11/2020 2:26:53 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: malach
When I read people, including some FReepers, writing that there is no such thing as race, there is only one human race, I despair.
Biologically there are some groups of animals that show marked physical similarities and others that are not so similar. Biological description was brought to a type of science in the 17th century. If it is time to revisit it, it is not the time to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that everyone is highly similar except for a few trivial characteristics. Simple observation, which is the foundation of science, shows that this is not the case.

Are you some kind of Darwinist?

35 posted on 06/11/2020 2:53:47 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Modernism began two thousand years ago.)
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To: higgmeister; TangoLimaSierra

“I still to this moment have idea why anyone would laugh at “a show about nothing” as they say.”

That’s not exactly surprising, since you didn’t watch it.


36 posted on 06/11/2020 3:25:33 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: C19fan

Madame Defarge knitting her list of names.


37 posted on 06/11/2020 3:28:23 PM PDT by airedale
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To: uranium penguin

The penalty is death by decapitation by guillotine or being torn apart by the mob if you appear on Madame Defarges list


38 posted on 06/11/2020 3:30:09 PM PDT by airedale
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Yep, a not-so-subtle attempt at virtue signaling - similar to “never heard of him/her”, “I haven’t owned a TV since 1957”, blah blah blah.


39 posted on 06/11/2020 3:30:47 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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