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In reply to the discussion: They Dared Me to Post This... [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)that say about your attitudes toward this subject matter, one you regularly insist you want to discuss honestly? Why don't you actually discuss these things?
Here's what I think. I think you and some other straight white folk of good will want to believe that if you can pay minority people off, you will never have to deal with racism and homophobia and misogyny as free standing subjects. This is simply not the case. Make everyone rich, the straight white rich people still treat the minority rich people differently as not as well.
At the highest levels of business in rooms where everybody present is very well off compared to the larger world, minority people will still find less options and opportunities than their straight white male counterparts. It's very cutesy to rant that those with plenty should not complain about inequality, but what happens when the Oscars come out? Gee, people say 'where are the minority nominees'? Where indeed.
If the minority directors of films do not have as many option because the executives are all straight white men, then the films that get made are going to trend white. And that means that the writers, actors and eventual nominees in the films made will not please the public because they will be all white, like those in charge are all white.
So the reasons the Oscars are 'too white' have to do with discriminatory treatment of very well off persons, has to do with who gets to be in charge and who remains second fiddle. Has to do with a millionaire not getting the same treatment as another millionaire.
When it suits their agenda, the 'social issues don't matter' crowd certainly do not hesitate to exploit social issues. Here's your thread about the Oscars..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026091089
Social issues don't matter. But the Oscars matter? And the Oscars are 'too white' but that's not a 'social issue'? And the reason the Oscars are 'too white' is not that high earning executives and producers who are minority members do not get the same powers and options as their white counterparts?
Just trying to figure out what your actual position is.