Posted on 08/11/2025 2:31:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Hollywood’s "progressive snowflake era" is over, with studios turning away from DEI and socially conscious programming, a New York Times column argued on Saturday.
"Hollywood is rapidly shifting away from the socially conscious framework that for more than a decade has driven its narratives, casting and green lights," editor-in-chief for The Wrap, Sharon Waxman, wrote in a guest essay for The New York Times.
Waxman pointed to the recent sale of an "anti-woke" reboot of the 1992 Paul Veerhoven film "Basic Instinct" as an example of how Hollywood is pivoting away not just from diversity, equality and inclusion in its business practices, but from a social justice-oriented outlook at the box office as well.
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Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad is further evidence of Hollywood’s anti-woke shift, Waxman claimed. Upon the launch of the advertisement, both Sweeney and American Eagle received backlash, with critics claiming the ad was hinting at eugenics.
However, according to Waxman, it failed to penetrate the Hollywood power centers in Burbank or Beverly Hills, and Sweeney was left unscathed from the controversy.
"It’s had no echo in Burbank or Beverly Hills, where not so long ago, Ms. Sweeney might have had to apologize for her insensitivity and make a donation to the A.C.L.U," she wrote.
Waxman claimed that after a string of controversies that beset Hollywood — including the #OscarsSoWhite campaign and criticism of a lack of diversity among creators — the industry set out to course-correct by emphasizing diversity in its hiring practices and storytelling. Yet, the efforts to hire additional non-White directors, screenwriters and showrunners left many creatives in Hollywood feeling like they’d been pushed aside.
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Woke is being ignored by thinking people. Good.
Translation: Hollywood lost a lot of money going woke. Woke producers, writers and artists produced unwatchable garbage.
My thoughts exactly.
‘Hollywood lost a lot of money going woke.’
Exactly. You go woke you go broke.
I'll believe it when I see a Captain America - or any superhero - movie fighting people who hates the American citizens and values. I'll believe it when I see movies from books and change their race, sexuality and personality (like what someone is saying about James Bond, making him a different race and making him bisexual). I'll believe it when I see better television show that has parents who are loving and normal, instead of shows that has the dad - if there is one - looking dumber than Joe Biden. 😀
I’m indifferent towards woke media and advertising, Hollywood movies and television not so much because I’m jaded, but because they suck. With the ever-present booming of AI, my instincts are to shield myself from any harmful effects it may generate with more of the same kind of indifference, but will that be enough to keep it at bay whenever it comes a-knocking? I pay for satellite TV and there are some good shows on, but the reruns are getting even older now. It just seems like a lot of technology is being wasted on inferior content and that I’ll never get my money’s worth.
No interest at all in that demonic crap. Maybe it will foster a renaissance in live theater.
They desperately need the money - woke doesn’t put butts in seats, let alone bucks in the register till, and the studios no longer have an ocean of money to use to cover for the failures of woke projects.
Given that Arabs, Persians, and Latinos are all classified as “white” when they commit a crime, I’d say “white” is the most inclusive category.
Be nice to see a decent series that doesn’t have any LGBTWRSTUVWXYZ freak show participation.. I have up years ago. First fag that shows up I’m done with any series.
Just tell me that the days of righteous fat black woman lesbian characters co-parenting cross racial children adopted after their persecuted single parent Asian-Mexican mothers were shot down by serial rapist NRA members as they left their double shifts washing dishes at the Cracker Barrel.....are over.
I first noticed it when “White Jake” was replaced by “Black Jake”...and then followed by blacks featured in 95% of commercial with the remaining 5% reserved for homo perverts.
This woke crap is what makes TV & movie reruns from a couple decades back and older enjoyable. We have ROKU and Prime for TV which both have lots of old stuff to watch. What is sickening about Prime is their constant pushing of the woke crap. It’s like straight white men and hot white women don’t exist.
I think this pushing people of color, fat people, homos and the communist agenda actually makes people more bigoted. And people to be more bigoted could be by design and intent, which further divides the country.
But even the way blacks were portrayed in movies was racist. Hollywood is truly a den of iniquity.
When will the advertising industry get the message ?
“They desperately need the money - woke doesn’t put butts in seats, let alone bucks in the register till, and the studios no longer have an ocean of money to use to cover for the failures of woke projects.”
Not even 10% of the population have gone full woke and of those, only a few of them would go see a movie like Snow White. There needs to be a way to tell that 10% to piss off and I think The AE ad was a great start.
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