Posted on 03/17/2021 2:44:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Oscar nominees were announced this week.
The AP highlighted the record number of nominations of "actors of color" and "a record year for women."
Today, such declarations are important in this "woke" media world.
Future Oscars will have actual quotas for minority groups.
Actor David Oyelowo praised the new standards, saying, "Anyone and everyone who is on that list of marginalized groups that are now going to be represented, are cheering."
No. Not all are cheering.
"Black, white, Asian... none of that should matter," says musician Eric July in my new video.
July, who is Black, complains that quotas cheapen awards. "It's supposed to be based on merit."
When I told him that director Roseanne Liang calls the new rules "one of the bravest and most amazing things that the Academy has done," July responded, "No, it's not. ... It basically turns the award into nothing. They feel sorry for you, so they're going to... give you an award."
I pushed back, that most Oscar voters are older white men. Even when movies starring Black people did well (Samuel L. Jackson is America's highest-grossing actor), award shows gave fewer Oscars to Black performers.
July replies, "The hundred-meter dash top 10... all of them are going to be Black people... it doesn't mean that there is some sort of wrongdoing."
"But what about the legacy of American racism?" I asked.
"Of course, it's a thing -- you can't say that it isn't, but this battle was already fought and won... We went off a cliff to where we're talking as if there's a Klansman behind every single corner, preventing people from being great."
But in Hollywood, such facts matter less than wailing about how oppressed you are.
Patricia Arquette, accepting a supporting actress award, shouted: "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all. And equal rights for women in the United States!"
The Oscar audience stood and cheered.
But American women have equal rights, and there is no wage gap once you factor in job choices. (Men are more eager to work overtime; women more likely to take time off to care for children.)
Politics now rules awards shows. Among the Hollywood crowd, what's moral is pushing for a giant government that passes ever more well-intended rules, no matter how expensive and ineffective the result.
I won 19 Emmys criticizing capitalists. I won zero awards once I started criticizing government.
Today's awards celebrate people who love big intrusive government. Last year, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was given an Emmy for his COVID-19 press conferences. Cuomo accepted the award via Zoom, praising himself for offering "authentic truth," even though he'd lied about the number of people who died because of his policies.
"Don't expect the governor of Florida to get one of those awards," says July.
The Grammy Awards are eager to praise Democrats. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter all got Grammys for reading their audiobooks. President Carter got a bunch. Democrats were nominated for 19 Grammys since 2000. No Republicans were nominated.
"A lot of these awards just shouldn't even be seen as legitimate on that alone," says July.
Today's award shows aren't about recognizing what's best. They're about pleasing the left.
Maybe that's why ratings have been dropping for years. Viewership for the 2021 Golden Globes was down by 68%. The Grammy Awards fell by 55%.
Perhaps the public is wising up.
I’m certain the left will give Eric July the House N Award.
How dare he speak his thoughts!...
Very few professions are based on merit anymore. You never know if your minority doctor made it into medical school because he’s very smart and works hard.
The irony of the whole thing seems to be that the American Public is happy shoveling money to Samuel L. Jackson and other black entertainers. Beyonce also seems to be doing well. The public loves good entertainers and gives them lots of money. No evidence of racism here.
But the Hollywood academy? The insiders? The people who are changing rules so that they can seem like Good Guys? Well ... they seem to have a history of giving lots of awards to old white people. Not so much to black people.
"Physician, heal thyself" is good advice. Instead, these people are gaming the system so that their own racism can be camouflaged.
He’s wrong about the 100 meter. Usually it’s between the top two and top four, in international meets.
there will be no social justice until left-handed disabled biracial transgenders are represented...
Everyone is a marginalized victim group except Christian White Males.
Enough is enough.
And the Oscar participation trophy goes to...
Medical school? Medical school, you say? Ain't nobody got time for dat!
Future Oscars will have actual quotas for minority groups.
Besides being very racist this will tick off all the actual good writers and directors and producers and actors.
They made their bed so tough.
get woke, become a JOKE
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