Where are all the white people? - Representation vs Virtue Signaling in Hollywood

[@bridgetiswrong8684]

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[@stevengross2689]

St. JP, in my view your thoughts on the subjects presented here are correct and well-founded. Strong white hetero males are absent from almost all segments of current popular culture but we that possess such strength continue to shamelessly display it in our families. Meanwhile, the elitist, self deprecating producers of total drivel choose 'virtue signals' and ' hipness' over true creativity. The media landscape is covered with droll piles of bile, regurgitated ideas marketed as 'new' when in fact, it's rare to find innovative or fresh ideas or characters in any media---literature, music, theater, TV, comics, etc---most are monochromatic, poorly constructed and boring. Intellectual depth is replaced with superficial concerns and forced overcast diversity results in laughably unrealistic results. I participate enough to see the failure and then usually retreat to the written word (or hard bop). Regarding the BBC series cited in your narrative----here in the States it'll be interesting to see how Alec Baldwin does in his role as the Ashanti King Osei Kofi Tutu (due to start production after the completion of 'Rust').....and, man, it's great to hear somebody with a brain for a change---Thank you.

[@st.johnthephilosopher1087]

I think people were right to ask for more minority seats at the table particularly by expanding the table. But what we seem to have right now is an ever shrinking table with seats marked "No cis whites allowed." It's gross. The resulting creatively bankrupt products were the only possible result. What's saddest of all, is that this sort of thing plants the seeds for real racism, making the "anti-racists" the greatest incubators of racially bigoted attitudes and behaviors in modern history.