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Jewish entertainers including David Schwimmer and Debra Messing excoriate the Oscars for excluding Jews from its new diversity standards brought in after George Floyd's death
Daily Mail ^ | January 10, 2024 | Ishita Srivastava

Posted on 01/10/2024 6:54:53 PM PST by Angelino97

Over 260 Jewish Hollywood artists have sent the Academy Awards a letter claiming that they are being excluded from its diversity standards.

The letter, which states the exclusion is 'discriminatory,' was created by the Jew in the City's Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation and was sent to the Academy yesterday.

It has been signed by actors including David Schwimmer, Debra Messing, Ginnifer Goodwin, Mayim Bialik and Josh Gad; comedians, writers and producers.

In 2020, notably after George Floyd's death, the Academy issued a set of 'standards' as part of its diversity initiative.

These standards recognized commonly 'underrepresented' identities, including women, the LGBTQ, an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or those with cognitive or physical disabilities.

Some of the racial groups include Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, Black/African American, Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native, Middle Eastern/North African and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. Religions are not included in the standards.

As of this year, movies will only be nominated in the Oscars' Best Picture category if one of the lead actors or a significant supporting actor is from one of the underrepresented racial or ethnic groups in the Academy's list.

The letter starts by stating: 'While we applaud the Academy's efforts to increase diverse and authentic storytelling, an inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism.

'It erases Jewish peoplehood and perpetuates myths of Jewish whiteness, power, and that racism against Jews is not a major issue or that it’s a thing of the past.

'Systemic racism against Jews in the United States included segregation, redlining, quotas, and gatekeeping, and was the motivation for the founders of Hollywood to start an industry where antisemitism wouldn't harm them.'

The letter highlights that Jewish people are an ethnic group and not just a religion.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; hollywood; oscars; stopantisemites
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These standards recognized commonly 'underrepresented' identities, including women, the LGBTQ, an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or those with cognitive or physical disabilities.

Jews are not exactly "underrepresented" in Hollywood.

1 posted on 01/10/2024 6:54:53 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Not sympathetic when they are part of the people who are trying to destroy my Country.


2 posted on 01/10/2024 6:56:31 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Angelino97

More Hollywood crybabies. 🙄


3 posted on 01/10/2024 6:56:38 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: Angelino97

There is a hierarchy of “victims”.

Jews are down near the bottom.
Muslims are near the top.

Maybe it would be best to support a political ideology that sees humans as individuals, with individual rights and value. Or, you can stick with the Collectivist approach and just pit one group identity against a different group identity. But remember — Jews are down near the bottom.


4 posted on 01/10/2024 6:59:53 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Angelino97

There are jews in Hollywood??


5 posted on 01/10/2024 7:00:25 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Angelino97

Jews are just mad the leftists kicked them out of their special victim class and now consider them oppressor white people.


6 posted on 01/10/2024 7:03:18 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: cowboyusa

I trust that you mean Leftists who are Jews but not conservative Jewish Republicans.


7 posted on 01/10/2024 7:03:19 PM PST by Rockingham (`)
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To: Angelino97

And Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity. Anyone can become Jewish.


8 posted on 01/10/2024 7:07:37 PM PST by Fai Mao (Strarve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Angelino97

Well Debra, now you know what they think of you....................


9 posted on 01/10/2024 7:08:03 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Angelino97

I am so sick of this diversity nonsense…..ugh !!!

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10 posted on 01/10/2024 7:10:32 PM PST by Mears
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To: Red Badger
Well Debra, now you know what they think of you.

They think she's one of those icky white people.

11 posted on 01/10/2024 7:11:32 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Rockingham

Yes.


12 posted on 01/10/2024 7:16:12 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Angelino97

True. Neither are “LGBTQ”.


13 posted on 01/10/2024 7:25:12 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: MV=PY

Just Jack Woltz...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thQiI5eaE6c&t=5s


14 posted on 01/10/2024 7:29:13 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: cowboyusa

“Not sympathetic when they are part of the people who are trying to destroy my Country.

That is quite a generalization. There are Conservative Jews you know - Or perhaps you do know.


15 posted on 01/10/2024 7:32:43 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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To: Fai Mao

“And Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity. Anyone can become Jewish.”

It is a belief system not a race.


16 posted on 01/10/2024 7:34:19 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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To: cowboyusa

I don’t recall destroying the USA. I fought for her.

Perhaps you mean gentile white women who are the electoral force behind every Democrativictory since Jimmy Carter.


17 posted on 01/10/2024 7:39:19 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: cowboyusa

Those Jewish actors now realize that the Democrats and Hamas want THEM thrown into the sea too. But, they will still vote for those who want to kill them.


18 posted on 01/10/2024 7:57:15 PM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there , a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Angelino97

First they will ban the Saturday people, then they will ban the Sunday people. Later, the Saturday people will be required to wear the symbol that indicates they are Jewish, and the Sunday people will be required to the symbol that indicates they are Christian.

Sound familiar??????


19 posted on 01/10/2024 8:27:43 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Angelino97

“As of this year, movies will only be nominated in the Oscars’ Best Picture category if one of the lead actors or a significant supporting actor is from one of the underrepresented racial or ethnic groups in the Academy’s list.”
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Best picture means just that - not some movie that checked all of the Leftist boxes. Nice way to further discredit the Academy and the Best Picture award.

What past winners would be disqualified? I’ll start:

Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting

That’s just 1970-1973. There are dozens of others.


20 posted on 01/10/2024 9:00:24 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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