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Oscar-Winning Actress Emma Thompson’s Diversity Solution: ‘Kill’ All the Old White Men
Brietbart Big Hollywood ^ | 13 feb 2016 | Kipp Jones

Posted on 02/14/2016 9:29:22 AM PST by drewh

Two-time Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy this week, and suggested the industry’s diversity issues could be remedied by “killing off” the Academy’s many older, white members.

“It’s hilarious,” the British actress told the Belfast Telegraph earlier this week in regards to the Oscars nominating controversy.

In January, the controversy was renewed after the Academy announced its acting nominations included no people of color for a second straight year.

“It’s no change there. It’s not as if it’s ever been awash with people of color. Let’s face it, the Oscar membership is mainly old, white men,” Thompson noted of the issue of diversity within the Academy’s membership.

Membership changes will eventually remove voting privileges from many older, white Academy members; however, Thompson feels the process of purging the older white people could be expedited.

“That’s the fact of it. Either you wait for them all to die, or kill them off slowly. There’s so many options, aren’t there?” she said.

The actress, who won Oscars for her roles in films Howards End (1992) and Sense and Sensibility (1996), previously described the British public as “racist” for its response to Europe’s migrant crisis.

“We have to open our door to more refugees. The idea of 3,000 people in Calais who have been through unspeakable things makes me feel very ashamed,” Thompson said last September. “We’re not even missing our quotas. That’s really shaming. So I think it’s got a lot to do with racism.”

Thompson added: “If these people were white, European, that were coming from some dictatorship in Bosnia. If they were coming I think we would feel quite differently about it … We’ve got plenty of room for them.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: california; emmathompson; hollywood; howardsend; senseandsensibility; unitedkingdom; usefulidiots
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To: drewh

Shut up and act, Enema Thompson.


61 posted on 02/14/2016 10:36:06 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: drewh

Emma is why good directors don’t let actors go off script.


62 posted on 02/14/2016 10:37:16 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: drewh

What a clueless, stupid, moonbat bit*h.


63 posted on 02/14/2016 10:46:08 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same reason.....Mark Twain)
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To: drewh

Look the left want to kill off Old White Men

The Right want to kill the left

The lefts target is based on race and gender... so the left is racist and sexist genocide

The right target is based on the lefts racist and sexist genocide


64 posted on 02/14/2016 10:49:24 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriot%s are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: drewh

I wish I had a nickel for every time my life has been threatened because of my race, religion, sex, age and political affiliations. And they expect me to quietly surrender my guns? Molon labe.


65 posted on 02/14/2016 10:56:22 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: drewh

Careful, Emma. If they decide to kill off the old white females, you’re over 50.


66 posted on 02/14/2016 11:00:57 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (Welfare: It's a Safety Net, Not a Hammock.)
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To: drewh

Let’s see Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, I would like to remind her that she has achieved her wealth and fame due to old white people.


67 posted on 02/14/2016 11:01:41 AM PST by kalee
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To: drewh

This is reminiscent of the “self-hating Jew” syndrome except that now it’s “self-hating whites”. There are quite a number of them and growing. And they’re usually the more successful ones.

I believe it’s an insanity that stems from a dissonance of what they’ve been brainwashed into believing (all races are equal) and reality (all races are not equal). To cope with that conflict they would prefer destroying their own race than change what they believe.


68 posted on 02/14/2016 11:05:41 AM PST by aquila48
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To: RegulatorCountry
***She's pushing 60 and white,***

Long past carousel. Time to send a sandman for her.


69 posted on 02/14/2016 11:06:43 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: drewh

Start with your ex first!


70 posted on 02/14/2016 11:14:39 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: drewh

The best solution - give every person who ‘performs’ an Oscar - a ‘participation’ award.

That’s fair. Here’s my nomination: Trump singing Green Acres:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCkmOCsI-hc


71 posted on 02/14/2016 11:14:50 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary has 416 'superdelegates'... Bernie has 14... Wake up democrats - the election's rigged.)
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To: drewh

It has been pointed out that the White Male is the New N*****.


72 posted on 02/14/2016 11:21:56 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Duke of Milan

Did she ever do Shakespeare? Other than perhaps playing “Desdemona”?


73 posted on 02/14/2016 11:25:23 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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74 posted on 02/14/2016 11:26:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: drewh

OK, Emma, let’s start with all those old gay white men. How about Elton John?

Does that work for ya?


75 posted on 02/14/2016 11:29:25 AM PST by sevlex
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To: drewh

Damn. Always liked her as an actress, but as her fellow Brits would say, apparently she’s gone round the bend.


76 posted on 02/14/2016 11:38:47 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: drewh

Wow! And she looks so normal. I guess one never knows who is a total complete padded room type nutcase these days. Her and those like her should all be sharing that padded room with the fancy girdles that wrap their arms around their backs.


77 posted on 02/14/2016 11:47:05 AM PST by Boomer (Liberal Propaganda is like visual/audio Meth. It ruins the mind and rots the teeth.)
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To: drewh

They have their own black awards shows are included in ours and still it is not enough FU


78 posted on 02/14/2016 12:01:42 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: drewh

emma thompson is just issuing a very loud and very public mating call for young non-white pool boys

because no one else meeting her (ahem) needs


79 posted on 02/14/2016 12:31:32 PM PST by SteveH
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80 posted on 02/14/2016 1:05:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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