The Anonymous
Bag On My Head
Why do some attempts at social engineering and racial apartheid work, while others don’t? It often comes down to whether the machinators choose to acknowledge human nature or ignore it.
So let’s take a look at the first industry-wide attempt to make Hollywood less white, and we’ll reason out why it failed.
Leftists have long sought to de-whiten Hollywood’s on-camera talent.
I stress “on-camera,” because behind the scenes, in terms of studio heads, producers, and network execs, Hollywood is content to be exceptionally not diverse.
But “diversifying” the faces in front of the camera has been a long-term project for those who think that trading the Grace Kellys for the Leslie Joneses will heal the nation or whatever (the “Phase 2” in between “Phase 1: Ban white actors” and “Phase 3: Utopia” is something the Underpants Gnomes have yet to elucidate).
2002 brought the first major push to decrease the number of white faces in films and on TV shows. The NAACP, in partnership with television networks and movie studios, forced casting directors to hold daylong meet-and-greets with “undiscovered” nonwhite actors.
A little “inside baseball”: There’s a time-honored pecking order in Hollywood regarding casting. Actors are represented by agents, who vet the actors for ability and sign them to exclusive contracts. Producers hire casting directors to find actors for their projects. The casting directors inform agents of the roles they’re casting, and the agents submit the appropriate actors.
Casting directors never see unvetted talent; it’s beneath them. So it was a great ignominy when the NAACP/networks/studios coalition demanded that casting directors see every nonwhite bum who demanded entry into their office.
And many of those nonwhite bums shambled in without even the standard headshot and résumé (as reluctantly confirmed by the L.A. Times, some of those “actors” literally brought pieces of paper with crayon scribbles saying “me actor, make star, give money”). I’m not sure I can properly convey how unsettling this was to casting directors. The process had been disrupted. Agents vet the talent, and then send the vetted actors to the casting directors. And now the “coalition” was forcing casting directors to meet with unvetted filth, while at the same time cutting agents out of the picture entirely (which pissed off the agents).
And there was another factor that doomed the 2002 diversity aktion. The NAACP, staffed as it is by simpletons who likely couldn’t pass a third-grade standardized test, hadn’t bothered to even try to know the mindset of the black actors they were supposedly helping.
The 2002 “diversity push” failed because it ignored human nature and the intricacies of the system it was attempting to alter.
https://www.takimag.com/article/lessons-from-hollywoods-great-replacement/
So let’s take a look at the first industry-wide attempt to make Hollywood less white, and we’ll reason out why it failed.
Leftists have long sought to de-whiten Hollywood’s on-camera talent.
I stress “on-camera,” because behind the scenes, in terms of studio heads, producers, and network execs, Hollywood is content to be exceptionally not diverse.
But “diversifying” the faces in front of the camera has been a long-term project for those who think that trading the Grace Kellys for the Leslie Joneses will heal the nation or whatever (the “Phase 2” in between “Phase 1: Ban white actors” and “Phase 3: Utopia” is something the Underpants Gnomes have yet to elucidate).
2002 brought the first major push to decrease the number of white faces in films and on TV shows. The NAACP, in partnership with television networks and movie studios, forced casting directors to hold daylong meet-and-greets with “undiscovered” nonwhite actors.
A little “inside baseball”: There’s a time-honored pecking order in Hollywood regarding casting. Actors are represented by agents, who vet the actors for ability and sign them to exclusive contracts. Producers hire casting directors to find actors for their projects. The casting directors inform agents of the roles they’re casting, and the agents submit the appropriate actors.
Casting directors never see unvetted talent; it’s beneath them. So it was a great ignominy when the NAACP/networks/studios coalition demanded that casting directors see every nonwhite bum who demanded entry into their office.
And many of those nonwhite bums shambled in without even the standard headshot and résumé (as reluctantly confirmed by the L.A. Times, some of those “actors” literally brought pieces of paper with crayon scribbles saying “me actor, make star, give money”). I’m not sure I can properly convey how unsettling this was to casting directors. The process had been disrupted. Agents vet the talent, and then send the vetted actors to the casting directors. And now the “coalition” was forcing casting directors to meet with unvetted filth, while at the same time cutting agents out of the picture entirely (which pissed off the agents).
And there was another factor that doomed the 2002 diversity aktion. The NAACP, staffed as it is by simpletons who likely couldn’t pass a third-grade standardized test, hadn’t bothered to even try to know the mindset of the black actors they were supposedly helping.
The 2002 “diversity push” failed because it ignored human nature and the intricacies of the system it was attempting to alter.
https://www.takimag.com/article/lessons-from-hollywoods-great-replacement/
