Posted on 09/17/2015 3:42:14 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Matt Damon opened his mouth and let the truth about the left's superficial commitment to "diversity" slip out.
Now, liberal ideologues are furiously whacking the relentless GOP-bashing actor for his "white privilege." There's even a Twitter hashtag -- "#damonsplaining" -- that erupted this week to mock his unforgivable political transgression.
Here's what happened. Damon (along with his progressive pal Ben Affleck) co-produces the television series "Project Greenlight," which gives wannabe filmmakers the opportunity to compete for a shot at directing their first feature film. The current season's prize script features a man who weds a black prostitute after being abandoned at the altar. On this week's episode of the show, aired on HBO, Damon dressed down black female producer Effie Brown for pushing the judges to give special consideration to a directing duo consisting of a white woman and a Vietnamese-American man.
An impatient Damon retorted: "When we're talking about diversity, you do it in the casting of the film, not in the casting of the show."
An offended Brown responded as if the wind had been knocked out of her: "Hooh! Wow, OK."
Damon went on to remind Brown that the rules of the competition called for judging candidates "based entirely on merit." And that politically incorrect principle set his loony liberal friends' hair on fire.
Huffington Post huffed that Damon was "tone-deaf." CBS News reported: "Internet outraged after Matt Damon interrupts black woman filmmaker to explain diversity." The holier-than-thou white leftists at Jezebel.com sneered at Damon for donning his "Smart White Man" cape. One enraged YouTuber headlined the exchange: "Matt Damon goes 'Massa' on producer Effie Brown."
Poor dear. Damon is guilty of a classic Kinsleyan gaffe -- accidentally telling a political truth -- and I'm enjoying every second of these chickens coming home to roost
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This is too funny. It’s poetic justice, seeing this self-righteous liberal getting a dose of his own medicine.
ya beat me
I know a flaming lib. She just got in trouble at work for referring to someone as an `Oriental’. She’s unhappy about the unfairness of it all.
Oh well, whatchagonnado.
It was a good moment when matt damon was offed in the movie intersteller
It is always fun when a lib finds that the goalposts have been moved and that they are playing with last year’s script.
LOL!
Damon went on to remind Brown that the rules of the competition called for judging candidates “based entirely on merit.” And that politically incorrect principle set his loony liberal friends’ hair on fire.
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Love it. Liberal forgets to be P.C. and accidently tells the truth.
I know a flaming lib. She just got in trouble at work for referring to someone as an `Oriental’. She’s unhappy about the unfairness of it all.
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What is wrong with “oriental”? Why is it un P.C.?
I wonder if Obama is planning to move some black projects into Matt and Afleck’s neighborhoods? We would find out how tolerate these hypocrites are. Of course that won’t happen.
What’s good for thee is not for me.
Racist micro-aggression, or so I've been told.
Well, as the libs like to say “rugs are oriental, people aren’t”.
Their complaint is that “oriental” means “from the east”, meaning east of Europe of course, so it’s a “eurocentric” term.
Maybe you can only use it as a reference to trains and rugs .
noun 1. the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
Oooh! Ooh! I know this one! (I learned it watching "Real World San Francisco" back when I watched that crap in the early 90s.)
"Oriental" is used when referring to an object, i.e., a rug, a vase.
"Asian" is used when referring to a human.
PC has so many rules to learn.... and then, as you know, they can just change 'em on a whim!
You see Token, people really enjoy seeing African-Americans on the news... Seeing African-Americans on the news, not hearing them. That’s why all African-Americans newspeople learn to talk more... wha, how should I say... white. [Sees that Token isn’t following] Token, all the great African-Americans newspeople have learned to hide their ebonic tribespeak with a more pure Caucasian dialect. There’s no shame in it, and I think it’ll really help our ratings.
southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Quest_for_Ratings/Script
Proof that people in Hollywood should be required to have license to speak in public without a script writer.
Then again the script writers probably need a license as well.
Interesting, this is the same Mat Damon who criticized Donald Trump for his “racist” remark against Mexican. Mat stated that he found it offensive because his wife is from Argentina.
What a complete idiot!
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