Why Hollywood is FAILING - The Devil's in The DEI

[@johnny718bravo]

Activists: "We didn't read the comics and source material." Us: "We didn't watch your shows and movies."

[@crimsonmoonrise9785]

Activists: "Then you're racist sexist homophobic and transphobic"!!!!!

[@Johnny_Coolbreeze]

So love this comment because it’s so true.

[@michaelfields7088]

Hollywood: Racists!!!

[@cherryfireice8216]

I literally refused to watch Hulk and Echo. Couldn't take the &%$#@. Ugh.

[@andrewwalling5173]

Nailed it!

[@NPC-30]

DEI = Didn't Earn It

[@kingandrewcecil348]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@sianais]

And every "diverse" talent that pops up during this mess will be thought of as such even if they actually have talent. This thing has never been about helping "diverse" people it's about wrestling power from talented people for contract workers who can't renegotiate contracts or leave because they have no skills. These shills have to prop up the companies even if they screw them over because they can't survive without them.

[@chenchen6150]

Doctrination, Exclusion, Infiltrate

[@VenomBroly]

Death of Entertainment Intentionally

[@jaredpowell1216]

Yeah because it aint right if it aint white...

[@GigglewithFelix321]

Hollywood is flooded with activists instead of writers, producers, directors, and show runners. That's literally what happened.

[@TransKidsMafia]

Please pray for the Palestinian trans kids of Gaza

[@johnwolf2829]

"Evil cannot be creative...." and it can never admit they were wrong. But it is even worse now; Directors and Producers thought they could write. Now, no writer with any self-respect will work in wHorrywood because of hideous pay & conditions. The death=spiral continues. IMHO, this can't change. Look for something else; foreign or independent does not matter, Hollyweird and Dis-me are dying or dead, forever. There is no saving them now.

[@Isaac556x45]

​@@TransKidsMafiaI pray that they repent of their sins and live according to God's law and put their faith in Jesus Christ.

[@tobishades]

Hee hee to that 💯

[@eodyn7]

@@Isaac556x45 He was being sarcastic

[@acacia_w]

It's not about equality or even equity. It's about power.

[@watchman1872]

Bingo!! At the top of every far left movement today you will find sociopaths and psychopaths who are in it for themselves.

[@bperez8656]

And control DEI is about divide and conquer by social groups to conquer them more quickly And create corporate and govt control of all

[@easter_sunday]

"We make comic book movies for people who are not comic book fans, and that were created by people who are not comic book fans." ~Hollywood "Who are these movies for, exactly?" ~America

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

Even outside America no one knows who these movies are for.

[@pendaco]

~Rest of the world as well

[@7735a]

But it's the story we wanted to tell!

[@callibor3119]

If wokeism killed America then we blame Hattie McDaniels for being the first African American to win an Oscar, huh?

[@jacksonsilva4409]

They'll gladly say the movie isn't for us, but apparently "us" are the majority of people.

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

Hollywood needs to be replaced. It's irredeemable.

[@dirtyfishmadeclean3995]

I couldn't agree more. They are disgusting. They won't be getting any of my money.

[@Goromajima61]

Shame that the most countries just copy Hollywood instead going their own way

[@FlintG]

Yup its going to be just like the video game crash in the 80s all over again. I am sure they are going to be replaced sooner or later.

[@RossM3838]

Social media like KZbin is already doing that Many KZbinrs get more viewers than mainline tv shows like cnn

[@callibor3119]

You guys wanted to replace Hollywood since 1939???

[@liamhemmings9039]

The arrogance is bad enough, the lack of talent is beyond belief.

[@jamesgoesoff1992]

it is almost like there is a Dunning/Kruger effect for tallent instead of intelligence.

[@Blisterdude123]

I've never believed someone 'personally' has to be familiar with source material when adapting something. There have been enough instances in the past that prove it's not required to produce great entertainment. Sometimes an outsider perspective 'is' what you need. The problem comes with a lack of respect for that source material. You can be unfamiliar, but you should always have a respect for it. And you should be working with other people who 'are' familiar with it, for a sense of perspective. That's the problem, imo. A lack of respect, and a lack of voices involved who can supply that experience with whatever relevant material. Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, one of the greatest Trek movies, was directed by a guy who'd never watched Star Trek, Nicholas Meyer. But he respected the material, he recognised it mattered to people, and he was working with teams of people who had the experience and knowledge of Trek he lacked. He had the outsider perspective, which afforded him to see a picture maybe others couldn't, but he didn't disavow or ignore what made Star Trek.

[@callibor3119]

So, wait did wokeism start with Hattie McDaniels, too, back in 1939?

[@n4ughty_knight]

If they had talent, they wouldn't be communists

[@cherryfireice8216]

Worse, they are actually proud of their work and it's AWFUL writing.

[@googlespynetwork]

This is the real "cultural appropriation". People that don't give a crap about comics, producing movies about comics. And telling the comic lovers who are experts, to shut up and like it.

[@bperez8656]

It’s cultural destruction by monopoly companies and govt seek to divide and conquer the populace in order to control what we all think

[@poru208]

Johnny Depp nailed it last May: “I don't feel boycotted by Hollywood, because I don't think about Hollywood. I don't have much further need for Hollywood, myself,” Depp said. “It's a strange, funny time where everybody would love to be able to be themselves, but they can't. They must fall in line with the person in front of them. If you want to live that life, I wish you the best.”

[@knightheaven8992]

That is right on the money

[@GOBIAS.INDUSTRIES.]

For real - that's almost beautiful! 👏🏽🥲

[@Anonymus600]

That's a really awesome sentiment. I seriously wish him all the best, Johnny had enough shit thrown at him in his life - and on his bed.

[@Par-Blindspot]

Yea, after your woman shits on your bed you basically become nonchalant to most things.

[@PAGoTribe1963]

In its own way, that's quite inspirational.

[@besseljm1]

"Fight discrimination, with discrimination" Yeah this is exactly what Ibram Kendi calls for in his books. It's literally their playbook and its disgusting and vile.

[@elskeletor3566]

Or you could sue them for breaking the law DEI is illegal.

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

Imagine vilifying and discriminating 80% of the population of your country. 😂

[@Langley_Ackerman19]

​@@JoJo-vg8dzSounds dumb but it's happening.

[@callibor3119]

Hattie McDaniel, won an Oscar. Is that discrimination?

[@Skullheadification]

Holy shit, I didn't know this guy and just went to his wikipedia page, what he's saying is crazy wtf Stuff like : "Europeans are simply a different breed of human." "They are socialized to be aggressive people. They are taught to live by the credo, “survival of the fittest.” They are raised to be racist." "Whites have tried to level the playing field with the AIDS virus and cloning, but they know these deterrents will only get them so far." How can he have any other job than flipping burgers ?

[@Quincy_Morris]

This reminds me of an interview with the actor who played M’Baku in Black panther. He basically said “when I heard I got the part I didn’t know about the character so I went to a local comic shop and the owner went in the back and handed me a stack of comics and said ‘this is every comic where your character appears.’” This is what actors and directors SHOULD do. If you aren’t into comics then you better become an e pert fast.

[@liamphibia]

It's something like Bella Ramsey where she was strongly told not to play the games for reasons I don't understand. But Bella had to watch the gameplay in secret. At least she turned in a decent performance as Ellie.

[@boosterkidrg]

Damn....If he actually read them and did research, it makes sense why his character was great and pretty much steals every scene he is in...

[@lokeshr9794]

Yes he is a comic book fan

[@ProudGirlDadX2]

Jon Berthal did the same thing when he landed the role as The Punisher. He did the right thing too by picking up Garth Ennis' Marvel Knights and Punisher Max series 🤘

[@ooodey3924]

not even good actor could save movies written by writers who hate the original sources.

[@ottovonbismarck6310]

It's not just DEI. It's gotten to where you can't go watch a movie without wondering what perverts, what crimes, and what abuse you're helping bankroll. A movie that sounded good with my uncommon first name in the title finally comes out and I won't watch it.

[@zerocool5395]

As a mechanic, I imagine saying "I never did an oil change, never even changed a tire" but yeah, it's great to be working for the Ferrari F1 team, I look forward to work on the car... 😂😂😂

[@asumazilla]

It's an advantage, you don't want the engine maintained in the same way as before! Embrace new ways of doing it.

[@bukhosidlamini3154]

😂😂😂 with the way Ferrari has been performing, I wouldn't be surprised if this actually happened

[@thorin1045]

but do you have the right color and mental problem?

[@StripesZB]

It goes beyond just being incompetent or grossly mismatched for the position. The person in this situation not only wouldn't be of any help as a mechanic, they'd be putting political decals on the car. Because the goal of the job in their mind is not to care for a car, but to soapbox their political beliefs.

[@SH19922x]

Thats literally what will happen in F1 within the next 20 years, i guarantee it

[@thewizardstower2649]

White male writer here. I have close to a dozen books out and have dealt with DEI Woke lunacy for years. Thank you so much for this video, Gary!

[@knuxuki1013]

Oh, what have you written?

[@kingtchalla2289]

Yeah. What have you written?

[@ArniesTech]

You are white AND male?! How do you even dare to still breathe!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@HeatherViking1740]

It sucks

[@TyrianHaze]

I got a computer engineering degree during covid. Never even bothered to look for a job in the field that I studied for because I was already sick and tired of dealing with the dei bullshit while getting my degree. Just using the knowledge I gained to make money for myself. Not gonna let these companies make a single dime out of my work until they unfuck themselves.

[@markdollard1084]

In my home country of Ireland, the state sponsored film agency has been running female only training and funding schemes for the better part of a decade now. This concerted effort to remove men, specifically straight white men, from the storytelling world runs from the heights of Hollywood to the depths of Government funded short-film schemes. I can't help but laugh when I think back to the lofty filmmaking ambitions I used to have.

[@piotrswat169]

i bet usa funds the same bullcrap in pakistan.

[@--------RR007----------]

And they still are terrible at it.

[@malificajones7674]

The really ironic thing, is that they've proven that only swm are actually any good at creating quality entertainment for a western audience.

[@BPF80MCar-vi1pg]

Hey buddy its the jews

[@isfbuster6733]

It's not just films etc, that process covers everything in life these days

[@zenbear4149]

Love the email that says “I’ve fought for all the causes and forces that’ve brought about the horrors of current moment, but I’m sad now that I’m being affected.”

[@theALTF4]

self awareness is not in hollywood's talents catalogue, you know

[@claudiuskeat8336]

I used to be a feminist. Then got attacked by women solely for being a man. I stand by the LGBT community. And also got attacked by the community because I'm straight. Oh, the irony. How naive I was to believe in a cause that was fighting for "equality and inclusion" when in reality, I was signing my own exile.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

DEI: Division, Exclusion, Incompetence

[@kingandrewcecil348]

💯 my thoughts exactly!

[@Patterner]

one character swap away from DIE

[@TheMASTER4real]

Based.

[@alexedwards6509]

DEI isn't being weaponised. That's like saying "They weaponised their guns" DEI IS the weapon and it always was. It is the only reason it exists. Communist poison designed to replace ordinary people with political acolytes. And it isn't just Hollywood. The only people it won't effect are the nasty elites behind it.

[@GIBBO4182]

The sheer f’hing hubris of these people to think they can just ignore the source material!

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

They can and they do, and they still get paid, so what do they care?

[@mr.punisher5100]

"Wait so you're not talented? You're hired!"

[@lostvayne9146]

@@paulmurgatroyd6372 and since that is the case, why should we care.

[@GIBBO4182]

@@mr.punisher5100talent and experience is pretty low down the list of requirements for a writer/show runner these days!

[@artemisia4718]

I think they just don’t like reading very much.

[@hrothgarnogar]

9:55 YOU'RE IN A EUROPEAN COUNTRY. God forbid the people in the royal family in a European country are...EUROPEAN??? Would she also go to the Ashanti Kingdom in Ghana, see their royal family, and say "wow I can't believe the royal family here is astoundingly black". They're blinded by their own racism.

[@conrad152]

Well said !!!

[@alexmuenster2102]

>>can't believe the royal family here is astoundingly black

[@manuelhernandez2017]

Nah, if they are European royalty, they have to be portrayed by gay and transgender people who are all different races

[@30noir]

No, it only works one way. A cast is more diverse if more and more minorities on it and when they are all black - it is perfectly diverse. Don't question the logic. That is heresy against doctrine.

[@chargingrhino5636]

I'm excited for the upcoming biopic of Emperor Hirohito starring Michael Fassbender in the lead role. Because, you know...diversity.

[@richardgrayson3241]

"Shut up and entertain", Sweeter words were never spoke. 'Nuff said.

[@zegs112]

I'm a straight white male working at a local college. I was passed up for a promotion a couple years back to a FAR less qualified ethnic female. It has happened over & over within the administration. They just announced we are closing after the spring semester, we are all out of jobs & current students have to transfer (due to mismanagement). Thanks alot DEI! (College of Saint Rose employee - Albany, NY)

[@noble_norse7786]

Damn, I'm from the Capital Region and didn't even know Saint Rose is closing! Such a shame for such a once great institution.

[@Xiy114]

I remember when I was a little kid, that my dad would go for some job interviews. Then the interviewing hiring manager said that my dad was more qualified than most other candidates, but couldn't hire my dad because the affirmative action thing was going on and had to hire more people of color not because they were more qualified but because they had to hire a quota of non "white" people. Thankfully was ended. But I guess that is now back in swing? SAD! WE ARE BEING WREAKED.

[@624Eduardo]

Good, fuck united states of israel

[@624Eduardo]

Good, fuck united states of israel

[@624Eduardo]

Good, fuck united states of

[@BroadMeadow-d9s]

Imagine a movie critic saying: "I didn't actually watch the movie."

[@RAWDATION]

😂 right the gall of these people is incredible

[@IstariAzul777]

These people take joy in destroying the work of far more talented, defenseless creators.

[@deeem2628]

Welcome to communism

[@filmsceneinvestigation]

These people don’t have a creative bone in their body yet somehow find themselves in writers rooms. Bewildering.

[@moneyobsessed]

@@filmsceneinvestigation trust fund kids have to go somewhere...

[@Elba.Ginon93]

Well DUH they went to "College" and "Studied" some useless garbage, of course they are incompetent and jealous.

[@louiswilliamterminator2887]

They don't destroy anyone else's work..... it's only their own stuff that's rubbish 🤣

[@BrokenDownTramp]

Hollywood was ALWAYS about propaganda, never was about art and entertainment.

[@tomkruze2749]

Being 51 I am old enough to remember when the “Best most talented and experienced” person got the Job.

[@radioactiverantpodcast]

What ever happened to those days?

[@TyrianHaze]

@@radioactiverantpodcast feminism

[@byYouTube94]

@@TyrianHazeIf you played “6 degrees of separation” with feminism. You could legitimately make an argument that it was a root cause of what we’re seeing today…

[@kingtchalla2289]

Funny, I'm 51 as well and I don't remember those days.

[@stephentg1]

It's one thing for DEI to give us terrible entertainment for the foreseeable future, but some jobs are life and death. Failure to get the best, most talented, and/or experienced airline pilot, surgeon, engineer... (etc.) not only could possibly result in deaths... it's statistically impossible for it not to result in deaths.

[@Kintabl]

No wonder 95% of stories in movies/TV shows are shit.

[@tenkenfilm6280]

I don't want them to “shut up and entertain” that ship has passed. They have tainted the whole entertainment industry with their hate and it's time someone else took over.

[@Fe7Ace]

Yeah I think I reached "shut up and go broke while you're at it" by now. There are plenty of other fun hobbies I really don't need them.

[@samblack5313]

If they think people will want to watch them play pretend just because they stopped abusing us, they’re in for a big shock. They made themselves intolerable to their main customer base

[@Sergeant_Fury]

Hollywood is writing the longest and most expensive suicide note in history.

[@Zapp33311]

The weird thing is movies/tv is so interwoven with society and if there’s no turning this around if we’re heading to some kind of “critical mass”. 🤔

[@zoecoelho8638]

Hello! I'm from Argentina, nobody says Latinx!!! 😂😂 It doesn't exist here!! Lot of love❤❤

[@robskalas]

It only exists here in corporate Woke media and Hollywood. Latinos here do not use the term.

[@ShamliseG]

Everyone knows, and you can try telling it to the liberals, but they apparently know more about your society than you do.

[@bernardoheusi6146]

As a brazilian first time I ever read it. WTF.

[@Langley_Ackerman19]

Agree with all of you. It's the woke's idiotic way of pandering to their mentally ill members who hate reality! 😂😂😂

[@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro]

I’m not Latina and I am American, but even I scoffed when I first heard that term. ‘X’ isn’t even pronounced that way in Spanish, and many Spanish dialects more or less leave that letter out entirely! It’s really hypocritical of the anti-white colonization harpies to attempt to Americanize the Spanish dialects of Latin countries from their moralistic high horses. Oh sorry, maybe I should use their language; how _generous_ of them to share their superior intellects with the ignorant subordinate populations of the lower caste.

[@CTomCooper]

Really says something when it’s “We never read or researched the comic books,” to another person saying “I was *told* not to read the comics.” There’s no plausible deniability of feigning ignorance. This is just deliberate sabotage.

[@dstokes8484]

It just explains why Deadpool was so good. It was made by fans of the comic *for* fans of the comic.

[@bellinghammond]

This video is another of those "through the Rainbow" moments where I realize that I am absolutely, definitely, "no-doubt-about-it" now living in Marxist Amerika

[@RogerS1978]

Lol has anyone, even an avid comic book fan read a ms marvel comic?

[@TotaledThunder]

Hollywood used to be filled with writers and actors who served in WWII. Men who experienced the world and humanity with high intensity. That's why they were able to create stories that captured truth. Our creative class now barely has a basic grasp on reality, so it's no wonder they can't create anything meaningful.

[@bellinghammond]

good point

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

👏👏👏👍

[@dr.embersfield1551]

"creative class" 😂

[@odysseusrex5908]

Well said.

[@stevenschultz9637]

Government functioned better under WWII vets too

[@Frigid_Knight]

The really hilarious part about the "J.E.D.I. Training" is that there was an article at some journal that talked about how the Jedi are "problematic" and the whole article reads like it was written by Palpatine.

[@andyharman3022]

Somehow Palpatine returned.

[@JCDenton3]

It makes sense considering these people are literally evil

[@briandarkwolf458]

You know, I started my college “career” studying to become a classical musician. There were a number of things that got in my way, but interestingly enough, none of those who stood against me in that field of study said it was my musical talent. In fact, they pointed to that being the only reason for tolerating me. Well, anyways, I always got into arguments with the varying artistic people I was working with for concerts, plays, ballets, etc., where they were always angrily telling me that their positions existed to “educate” the poor masses. Sound familiar? Well, you can imagine the shock on their faces when I would tell them as politely as I could that our job was actually to inspire and entertain our audiences and we should be thankful for the opportunity. Well, like I said above, I didn’t last in that field very long.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

What instruments do you play, if I may ask?

[@TheMASTER4real]

Go independent it’s better that way although it will be harder it will pay off in the long run and your fans and supporters will have direct access to you

[@briandarkwolf458]

French horn. My freshman year was rough enough I didn’t go back to that private college (They have a reputation for their music and arts programs). I did some time in the military and then when I got out I did a more business related degree. I’ve played in some orchestras since then, but kept running into the same attitudes and that took the fun out of it. I only play for my own enjoyment now.

[@philspear73]

That Levar scene will NEVER get old, NEVER! Can you imagine if a white actor said the same about having a black ancestor?

[@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro]

Even if it was a white guy being appalled and embarrassed that he had a Dahomey ancestor (you know, the African tribe that contributed countless numbers of men, women and children to the African slave tribe long before and after European clientele came and left, whose operations were made off of women forced to be warriors for their king), the fallout would be more intense than Chernobyl

[@zamar2158]

​@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro dahomey, igbo, sankofa etc etc. All over sub saharan africa capturing and selling their own people into slavery for thousands of years before european contact.

[@TheAyeAye1]

It also shows Mr. Reading Rainbow is extremely ignorant. The likelihood of black people whose families spent more than a single generation in any of the slave colonies in the Americas not having a substantial European ancestry is quite small. The people in the former pirate states of north Africa have a huge about of European DNA because they kidnapped a lot of Europeans before Europe got the upper hand in the enslaving contest in the Fourteen and Fifteen Hundreds. We all need to accept we're mutts and move on.

[@stephencollins9062]

The British had to go in and stop them eating their captive slave's.​@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro

[@infinitydreamzz]

​​@@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro "contributed" can be misleading. They are directly responsible for the transatlantic trade, they created and supplied the "merchandise" (YT keeps deleting my comments) Yet history only chooses one group to blame and gives them a complete pass, they even make them heroic Hollywood movies 😢

[@guyjperson]

I'm a lighting technician in "the Biz". This is happening at our level as well. Kids with a year's experience against my 25 years, are being hired by fitting the criteria. The DEI questions at the key level are overt. As for the census, I was hounded about it consistently for a year. I didn't HAVE to, but they kept at me. Never did do it. But I think the Union is doing it, because it's under pressure from the the Studios and in competition with other markets to keep the work coming in.

[@n4ughty_knight]

Now you need to be DEI + years of experience?

[@guyjperson]

@@n4ughty_knight Seems like DEI wins it. Having experience is a bonus

[@zamar2158]

​@@n4ughty_knight it doesn't happen. Dei candidates are there for dei not because they know how to do the job. They have regular folks for that. So their so called experience counts for naught.

[@Edwin.Serrano]

I am a straight Hispanic male, at least my Hispanic condition gives me some advantage, I always do my best in everything I do, currently pursuing a career in nursing and working in a hospital as a nursing assistant, can tell you for sure that I wonder how many of my co workers got the job outside being hot and having a vagina. Actually in my hospital there's a campaign to hire more male nurses as we are the only ones who don't run away when patients get violent or inappropriate (as in touching a female, tes very dirty bastards in a hospital bed). I guess things gotta go to hell.before they can realize they need us

[@T0MapleLaughs]

"Less movie releases in 2024 than 2023." Maybe because all the new hires currently can't do the job? It logically takes a while to train everyone up.

[@EstbXCIII]

The most disturbing part is how they demand "modern takes" and "fresh perspectives" in the making of historical flims and games. These things are completely contradictory to history. It is LITERALLY the rewriting of history.

[@frocat5163]

Levar Burton's reaction to having a recent white ancestor is a perfect summary of the racism double standard. If I (a white dude) had a black great-grandparent I didn't know about and I reacted the way he did when I found out, I'd be labeled one of the worst r@cists of all time.

[@Par-Blindspot]

No one wants have a Morally corrupt Slave Owner as an Ancestor.

[@toad1971]

Your comment is spot on! Levar Burton is a hateful person who is so blinded by his hate he cant see his own bigotry.

[@rogershore3128]

Do you want to be a fly on the wall if he's forced to meet his white relatives. Will he choke before or after he meets them?... I have never laughed so much in my life..... He should have been asked afterwards "Are you are white?"

[@MMAVoodoo]

And it's even more repulsive when they somehow see their worldview as the higher ground.

[@drejohnson4599]

White Mom"White ask White Child when U lost Who look For" White Child "A Big Black Man" Don't Bout U But Yo Nerd ain't Provin Nuttin His Grandmother Was Probably Grape From Confederate Just like From WS Playbook 101 Play Dumb 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@GUISNIP]

I’m a jobbing actor living in Vancouver, also known as Hollywood North. I’ve been at it for 25 yrs and, well, I’m a middle-aged white man. Still audition 2-3 times a week, but the roles are now all described as “open ethnicity”. I haven’t landed a job in over 3 yrs, despite a decent track record. My actor pals in the same demographic joke that it’s a waste of our time to audition since we will always lose out to the DEI mandates. Luckily for me I’ve gone into another field all together and don’t need to act to pay the bills.

[@Par-Blindspot]

LOL imagine all the years minorities suffered like you did for only 3 years.

[@kingtchalla2289]

No worries. White men still run media, Wall Street, Hollywood, NBA, NFL, Silicone Valley and the U.S. Congress. I think ya'll will be okay.

[@T.R.R.Jolkien]

Make your own movie on your iPhone

[@socalstr]

There is exactly ZERO that is Hollywood about anything in Canada.

[@crazyralph6386]

Hang in there, this madness won’t last forever. The overall consensus is that people are done with this blatant tokenism.

[@cy-villian]

DEI ... Division, Exclusion, Incompetence

[@Matthew10950]

DEI...Didn't Earn It.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

To be Diverse, Evil must be given position. To be Inclusive, Evil must be excused. To be Equitable, Evil must be compensated.

[@spndusk2362]

That's not how I'd phrase it. Maybe switch some letters around that abbreviation. See what else you come up with and that will be the true agenda.

[@BowlCrossy]

Alternatively, Discrimination, Exclusion, Incompetence.

[@davidfletcher369]

Truth

[@Tomyironmane]

I used to really look up to LeVar Burton as a kid. Hearing him speak up in favor of cancel culture and mob rule is heartbreaking.

[@kathleenking47]

I heard that..really sad😢 I'm also black It's like John Wayne, saying he overtly hated blacks...

[@NarrativeArcade]

I knew since 2021 things are about to get really bad. I'm an indie screenwriter and in 2021, I started getting nonsense feedback. Prior to that I always received actionable feedback but now I get literal moral lecturing telling me what I can or can't put into a screenplay. And I know those checklists unfortunately all too well. Decided to launch a channel instead and go my own way. There is no place in Hollywood for newcomers that only care about good storytelling.

[@papalaz4444244]

MAchine ELves LMFAO

[@sillypuppy5940]

I know. There's certain types of characters that absolutely cannot be villains. Certain others that cannot have anything derogatory associated with them. Why? Because those sort of characters are angels, and/or persecuted; therefore all their actions are by definition righteous. Which leaves villainy to one demographic only. It's writing for children by children.

[@markmunroe-hz8rf]

Have you tried any indie studios?

[@jbw3118]

Equity, diversity, inclusion are all four letter words that used to mean something. Its also about control.

[@NarrativeArcade]

​@@papalaz4444244it's a dope pilot. I had it optioned once but it never went into production. Still pitching in film markets.

[@HickoryChip0]

Watching Lavar Burton find out he has a white Confederate great great grandfather was one of the best things I've ever watched

[@McDLT666]

How could that idiot not know he has white ancestors? Dude talks like people's impersonation of white people.

[@Red_Devil_2011]

It's also funny how he's so conceited that he couldn't tell that he's obviously mixed. What an awful hateful person.

[@TylerBird-tw4qv]

Ikr? Literally wanted to fight and started crying. 😂 Oh the horror poor Lavar😢😂

[@rogersmartinjr.8588]

So beautiful to watch. Before, he wanted people cancelled. Then after finding out about his heritage, now he wants open dialogue with the other side. Kick rocks.

[@zamar2158]

Is that kunta kinte? Lol

[@SaSpursFan]

It’s not just in Hollywood. It’s everywhere.

[@balance1619]

its mostly hollywood and the mainstream media. i play a ton of video games(own 201 on steam) and you almost never see this. its being rejected in sports, WBNA is a huge meme. its been rejected in anime/manga you almost never see it there either cause a lot of the workers are japanese and could care less about the american woke culture

[@gabrielcastejon7914]

Whoever is finding these clips for the editing needs a raise. Good stuff

[@johnw7602]

There is one important lesson the "Entertainment" industry has taught me, that is, I no longer need them to be entertained. Their plan to phase themselves out is now complete.

[@Dan-440]

Between books and being physically active, you begin to feel sorry for those who spend so much time being entertained.

[@toudou621]

Same here gotta admit that I have to thank them actually... I just swifted so naturally away, truly a masterclass they did

[@TheJakecakes]

Reality and history is truly stranger and more interesting than anything they could offer.

[@tonyjunior92]

@@Dan-440 i get what you’re saying, but aren’t books just another form of entertainment?

[@christophercatiller2422]

When the guy says, "When the DVD comes out, I'm going to read a full comic book just to see where we went wrong," reminds me of Nancy saying, "We need to pass this bill to see what's in it."

[@chickey333]

Same thing here.

[@Beer_Dad1975]

That was Taika Waititi - who to be fair was in fact a huge nerd up until a few years ago when his head got to big. I believe he was into comic books as a kid - just not Thor presumably. Now he's into Rita Ora, and his own reflection too.

[@alexman378]

@@Beer_Dad1975He’s a talentless unprofessional moron whose biggest success was gaslighting entire audiences into thinking he’s good for about five years or so. Mercifully, people came to their senses.

[@Langley_Ackerman19]

Yeah and both are senile and needs to he removed.

[@Mecks089]

I thought physical media was dying?

[@7shinta7]

There's a man in disbelief, bursting out in tears and almost willing to resort to violence just because of the reveal that he had a white ancestor?! Isn't that kinda... racist? Imagine if the roles were reversed...

[@shykorustotora]

Didn't you hear? Black people can't be racist, racism is a one way street lol

[@JustAnArrogantAlien]

Yes. These wackos are *intensely* racist. The whole DIE/ESG/HDTV alphabet soup has always been a scam for the Woke to project their own bigotry onto everyone else.

[@drawingdead9025]

If the roles were reserved that actor would literally never work again.

[@goldmoutdog19]

I really dont understand why that bothers anyone, how does an ancestor being white change anything about them

[@7betJesus]

they’re too stupid to know any better

[@jcorbett9620]

I think the only thing funnier than LeVar Burton finding out he had a white great, great, grandfather that fought for the Confederacy, would have been that he was also a slave owner or trader.

[@spndusk2362]

The minute he got to the "JEDI training" bit I nearly lost it. I really thought I was living in Clown World for real. WTF are they doing over there?!

[@Makon0006]

Oh we are living in a clown world. The problem is it just isn't actually funny.

[@kaybigg]

I have no clue either.. I don't know if I'm laughing at that name or Nerdrotic's reaction... No adult should come up with such an idea unless his target audience is actual kids.. How do they sleep at night carrying so much misery??

[@infinitydreamzz]

George Orwell

[@adam872]

Yeah that was it for me. Are they kidding?

[@dongusmalongus1915]

Can people stop using the acronym DEI and instead switch to DIE, like come on it's an acronym that actually makes it sound like the evil it is and people piss it away. Also Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity flows so much better than Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

[@Galadriel_De_Beauvoir]

I'm Brazilian and I had no idea how this DEI thing was rooted in American institutions until I decided to do a clinical fellowship in the USA. Most high-end university and hospital websites are full of "DEI opportunities" - honestly, I would feel completely embarrassed trying to get a place through this kind of route, as if I were some kind of victim. I mean, when it comes to work, we should always look for the most qualified. It's not just Hollywood that will collapse, and that's kind of scary.

[@T-1001]

Not just the US. The RAF (airforce for my country - the UK) put instructions out to not hire white male pilots. In a country that is 87% white they refused to hire white males to boost DEI quotas and now we have a shortage of pilots.

[@ProjectKhopesh]

Indeed. Life would go on without Hollywood. This ethical cancer is killing a lot of other institutions, and it's not going to end well.

[@kingtchalla2289]

No worries. White men still run Hollywood, Wall Street, Silicone Valley, Congress, NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. Any white man complaining about not "working" because of a minority is simply because their not good enough. Period. Full Stop.

[@pedroalejandro1122]

I left North America and now live in Costa Rica, which is much more monolithic in its culture and I absolutely love it. What you describe is happening in so many different industries that it’s becoming a massive problem to productivity and output because we give opportunity to those who may not have earned or deserve it but solely based on skin colour. We are seeing the beginnings of widespread failure to levels we haven’t seen since the depression years. The entertainment industry is just the most visible example and luckily the stakes there are low because ultimately it is just entertainment but as these policies get put into other power structures, we’ll see the real damage done

[@skyevens8756]

Yes it is happening already.

[@justaguy105]

I love that LeVar Burton just found out that his great-granddaddy was a white man. He was shocked and almost started crying

[@dariusq8894]

Most people don't know this, but Bruce Lee was 1/4 German. The difference? Bruce Lee, despite having endured racism, was not himself a raving racist.

[@patrickhenry8425]

Everyone has experienced racism. Everyone. @@dariusq8894

[@zamar2158]

Actually in his heart levar would have been thrilled. But he will never ever ever admit to it.

[@indiajohnson]

When it comes to African Americans and the diaspora, it really shouldn't be that much of a surprise though regardless of skin tone.

[@notneb82]

Ain't it funny? His great grandfather was a Democrat and so is LeVar!

[@tsnovak20]

And this is just the entertainment industry. This is happening in Aviation, airlines, doctors, politics etc… people should be seriously concerned!

[@warpcorebreach2186]

In college classes the writing department classes were 50% to 70% female students (non-fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, novels). In screenwriting classes, there were 20-30% female students. No one was keeping the girls out of the screenwriting classes; they just preferred traditional forms of writing on average. I can't imagine the numbers have changed too much over the years with academic preferences, so this ratio means if they are going out of their way to pick DEI candidates and lots of female writers, it means they are doing so by ignoring a huge amount of male writers just because of characteristics irrelevant to the job description.

[@Sorain1]

Oh wow, given the massive shift in who attends collage in recent years, screenwriting classes are going to be a dying breed for lack of students.

[@dongusmalongus1915]

Can people stop using the acronym DEI and instead switch to DIE, like come on it's an acronym that actually makes it sound like the evil it is and people piss it away. Also Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity flows so much better than Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

[@fraggelsmurf]

It has been like this in IT since forever. Few women studying the field but they still demand 50% at the workplace.

[@fraggelsmurf]

It has been like this in IT since forever. Few women studying the field but they still demand 50% at the workplace.

[@Hyggeliste]

My wife was recently hired by a US firm. Today she came to me and complained that she had to take Diversity training. I jokeingly said, that she didnt have to worry, she was diverse as a female. She looked deadly serious in the eyes and said, "that is not enough anymore". This is so stupid.

[@pandakicker1]

Nothing will ever be enough for insane people who's entire "morality" is built on shifting sands!

[@TheShoguneagle]

Do what I do with computer-based wankery: click play, zone out into another reality, click “complete.” And brain dump anything that managed to slip through.

[@richcotton4974]

Aye, I don't remember who the two guys are, but using different aliases they wrote and submitted a dozen academic papers on a variety of issues in one year. One of the papers that they submitted, something to do with sexism, posing as a white female writer, was rejected because "her" being a white woman speaking about women's issues is offensive to women of color. That and their papers that did get accepted really exposed the incredibly dangerous mindset dominating academia.

[@wagner5424]

@@richcotton4974James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian.

[@richcotton4974]

@@wagner5424 thank you. I know I am also off on the specifics of the paper I mentioned of theirs but the point is still I valid, I think.

[@whowhowhowhowhowho8139]

They choosed untalented, disrespectful, arrogant, activists. And specially! You can see in some of their faces they actually despise the comics. Who would have thought they would fail.

[@sansoosavage]

When freshmen math and English classes teach “where is your activism!?!”; we’ve pinpointed the problem.

[@Zathren]

Dang. Writer after writer, all of them never cared about the comics or their characters. No wonder it's all gone down hill since Infinity War.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

How can the woke writers do a modern take on the material if they've never actually seen the material. It's just corporate bullshit for "we do whatever we want."

[@halburd1]

since? where the fk were you the last decade?

[@AbstractM0use]

It's funny how they keep saying "Latinx" despite most Latinos and Latinas saying they hate the term.

[@witoldkrasuski2784]

Those are 6% Latinx

[@soullesstaco9897]

Think that is the only term that has every pissed me off my whole life. Don't have any family or friends that would ever use it. Older Generation has never heard it before.

[@ThingAnderson]

Because they don’t actually care about Latinos/latinas or representation or any of that nonsense. The goal is to create division.

[@ThingAnderson]

Because they don’t actually care about Latinos/latinas or representation or any of that nonsense. The goal is to create division.

[@someguyontheinternet2399]

These people are arrogant enough to think they can reinvent language overnight when humanity has spent centuries refining it

[@williammaize5093]

crazy that writers have gotten more Jedi training than Rey

[@CloudWalkBeta]

This comment wins the ‘made me spit my drink’ award XD

[@DevinWatson-k3v]

Yes good one, she was always a natural though

[@HANKHILLFORTXGOVERNOR]

​​@@DevinWatson-k3v thats why it failed. People want flawed, they want real. You cant be natural with a light saber.

[@daste1263]

Mint

[@lordgoofus2364]

This industry proudly brought to you by the Ministry of Truth. Exclusion is diversity. Bias is equality. Voluntary participation is mandatory. Censorship is freedom.

[@Neo2k2]

Bye Hollywood. It’s been a nice ride, I’ll stick to old classics.

[@locomotionlotion779]

I’m in the UK, but I have a friend who works for a city in Maine. He can’t even employ the people that he needs for his department, because his DEI coordinator prevents him from selecting the qualified people. That’s ACTUAL insanity. So now, people in his town aren’t receiving the services they pay for, because the coordinator insists on an African being employed, who can’t speak any English, with absolutely no experience with that department. HR won’t approve the applicants that are actually already qualified. It’s wild.

[@Par-Blindspot]

LOL imagine how every one else felt when only Slave Master descendants got good jobs without any merit.

[@boobah5643]

If that's the case, it's _incredibly_ illegal. The problem, of course, is that any way of sorting applicants for aptitude that results in $CATEGORY disparity is, necessarily, $CATEGORist, no matter how obviously it tracks ability (for example, requiring firemen to have the strength to carry a person out of a burning building is sexist, because women are less likely to have that much physical strength.) So, since any legitimately useful way of determining aptitude is 'illegitimate,' it's difficult to prove that someone was hired (or not) to make the numbers, and very hard to convince someone whose job is preventing $CATEGORist lawsuits to risk it by hiring for merit.

[@Degarth]

2% of Maine's population is black those jobs are going to be open a long time.

[@TincMetals]

Remove HR Horrible Rot

[@rpgadventurer32]

The UK governments, going back to the 50's and 60's, are the ones that started this mess in the first place, and later the EU and the US. They are the first once that pushed this insane DEI policies beside the left wing in the US. The self destruction of the UK is one of the most unbelievable things to have happened to a nation. It's mind boggling.

[@manwiththeredface7821]

3:49 I had to fill out literally the same thing (about my sexuality, race, religion etc.) in retail. IN THE UK. IN 2021. I chose "Unspecified" on all questions but the mere audacity of them to ask these pissed me off. They had the right to ask me about whether or not I could do my job but my sexuality etc. was none of their business. Thank God I left that company...

[@misterballista]

Lol. I feel you. I used to work for Mencap, a big national charity for people with learning disabilities, and they introduced a mandatory "race bias" training module which basically said all white people are complicit in a oppressing black people, British culture is inherantly racist, etc, etc. When I objected to its content i was hauled infront of senior managers who attempted to bully me into doing the module and when I pointed out that the woman who founded Mencap was white and they were essnetially demonising her, I was told that this was a "highly problematic and inappropriate" statement, then when i continued to refuse to do the training I was fired. What's most amusing is I'm mixed race. Self-employed is the only way forward IMO.

[@Imtherealmckay]

Imagine hiring dentists, surgeons, and childcare professionals based on ethnicity rather than qualifications and expertise? It would definitely lead to unwelcome consequences. Would you book a seat on a plane with pilots who are diverse but less qualified to fly in difficult situations?

[@aintnunya8058]

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but that is exactly what is happening around you. At least two major airlines have announced with pride that their hiring of new pilots will be based on diversity and inclusion.

[@Imtherealmckay]

@@aintnunya8058 OK. I'll answer this with one word - "Taxi!"

[@questerperipatetic4861]

NASA announced the next crew to the moon will be ethnic hires. How humiliating for those astronauts, forever to be known as 'best of class' instead of 'best of all', even if in fact they were the very best.

[@RayasPater]

45 seconds in and all I can say is " Gary, Thank You for the Work That You Do. " Sincerely.

[@johnthewalrus7308]

17:50 It is amazing how comfortable LeVar Burton is being so openly ugly towards the idea of being mixed race. It never enters his mind that his attitude towards another race could be wrong.

[@lorddracula-kn6bz]

So Glad he's a Washed Up Has-Been Nobody is Interested in Working With Anymore.

[@crazyralph6386]

He’s just a vindictive and jealous piece of garbage, knowing that all his white co stars have had a better post TNG career than him.

[@jjbees7911]

Even the Nazis thought they were the good guys. Every person we consider "evil" in history delude themselves into thinking they are doing the right thing. What makes it all worse is the have examples from the past that it is not the right thing to do.

[@FacitOmniaVoluntas.]

That’s what happens when modern media tells you that you literally can not be racist if you’re not white. Many black People specifically have adopted an ideology of black supremacy. In their mind, everything about being black and POCs in general are objectively smarter, more attractive, more creative, stronger, and just generally better than white people. Many of them don’t even consider us human. If you really listen to them, there’s quite a few BLM activists who call for genocide against white people. But who cares. They’re black, so they can’t be racist.

[@Threemore650]

He looks mixed ffs.

[@SilenTide]

“I didn’t read the source material” “I don’t really like this stuff”… We know, some of us have 2 or more brain cells to rub together. Do something else.

[@doubledip3181]

I remember back in the 70s and 80s how movies and Hollywood were bigger than life now the whole industry has been completely gutted. I can't imagine a single scenario where I would ever enter a movie theater again. Years ago it was an experience with the pop corn smell mixed with the carpet smell it was glorious today I wouldn't care if they never made another movie again.

[@kathleenking47]

They could go back to a modified HAYES CODE 1933-1966

[@doubledip3181]

The movie business has been wrecked. Everything has a shelf life the movies had their time. Even if they changed everything I still wouldn't go back. I wouldn't spend my money on an industry that has hated me for decades.

[@rickbase833]

Isn't it illegal to hire based on race/gender/sexuality/insert ism here?

[@loki76]

Not when it is against white people. Only the other way around. Apparently.

[@Mynameisjoof]

Just saw The Godfather for the first time. No diversity hires and a phenomenal movie. I’m sure Hollywood would mess it up if they tried a movie like that today

[@HabitualJoker]

There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of movies like this

[@donaldvonglitchenberger4108]

you can guarantee that robert duvalls character wouldn’t be a german mick today. he would def be a person of color. And anyone else that isn’t playing an ethnic italian in the movie

[@Goromajima61]

Any movie until 2012

[@Blackatchaproduction]

You mean you think it's a good movie because there's no non "white" people in it. How thinly vield we are

[@muznick]

They are bound to remake it for "modern audiences". In other words: female, black and gay.

[@Sanj1n]

The first part is exactly the reason why Hollywood is failing.

[@callibor3119]

Hattie McDaniel is who failed Hollywood?

[@79klkw]

How about the remake of Mr. And Mrs. Smith? How sickening! Nobody has any creativity left? Do the minorities like this?? I doubt it! Would I want a new fresh script, or to remake something another artist already did, just because someone wanted the stars to be minorities? Can you imagine ME saying that I was ashamed of a black ancestor on national TV? DOUBLE STANDARD?

[@johnnyt71982]

Sad thing is all those speaking out anonymously because they don't want want to lose any hope of working again, will never work again anyway for the exact reasons they're speaking out.

[@jordanerdman90]

As a writer this really bums me out, I want my writing to be enjoyed by the audience for its quality, not because I fit on some executives bingo card. As someone that loves movies, this is making me yearn for a new indie scene, let’s bring back the drive-in! Let’s let the box office decide not executives.

[@n4ughty_knight]

I think it's time for you guys to start underground film clubs. Charge cheap tickets and you'll be earning more money than any current Hollywood movie.

[@rasalasblack]

Being just a "diversity hire" is the worst insult in a talent-based workplace. You're just a hired mascot trying to do a version of rocket science.

[@dongusmalongus1915]

Can people stop using the acronym DEI and instead switch to DIE, like come on it's an acronym that actually makes it sound like the evil it is and people piss it away. Also Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity flows so much better than Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

[@brodel20]

They have to buy all the IP and cram their messages into it, because any original work they produced would be complete failures. I experienced this back when I worked there. Now, let it all burn.

[@Sorain1]

Solid example of what they create when they try to be original: High Guardian Spice. Yup, _that_ bad.

[@tomb7901]

DEI destroys art. It doesn't produce art, it produces propaganda.

[@peterrehm490]

I love how they throw around the "R" word like a rock of proverbial justice.

[@firion666]

You mean capital of Latvia?

[@JoJo-vg8dz]

They are anti wht R.

[@firion666]

@@JoJo-vg8dz anti-Riga ofc

[@blahblah6497]

There is MORE than enough evidence to file a MASSIVE class action lawsuit against the WGA and also against the Studios! Plus, I am sure that there are plenty of top notch attorneys who would LOVE to take the this on. I hope these people realize this pretty quickly. The studios and Unions would not want the even more salacious information to come out in discovery.

[@McDLT666]

An army of Jewish lawyers would come out of the woodwork to defend hollywoke.

[@Edwin.Serrano]

​@McDLT666 Jewish are not that rich, maybe you mean American-European Jewish wanna bes

[@TheOriginal_Unaleska]

​@@McDLT666would they? Considering the political climate between Jews and Palastine, they might be less inclined to do so.

[@infinitydreamzz]

​@@McDLT666I'd have to agree with the previous comment. These people are not Israel friendly, plus Jews are not only white but also historically overrepresented in Hollywood so they wouldn't like a change in the status quo? I think ..

[@infinitydreamzz]

​@@McDLT666but those people are not their friends, not to mention J are a group that have been doing historically well in Hollywood so they have no need for this, not to mention they are w ..

[@heretech7025]

I worked in the hotel industry (for a major hotel chain) for about 15 years then about a few years ago we started to get a lot of emails like this. Our management training started to feel real strange. Any time I questioned about the ethics and how unfair some things were against certain people I was shut down pretty hard to told to get in line and shut up. Thankfully im not in that industry anymore. Its not just hollywood. Weird stuff too. Like standing in front of everyone and sharing traumatic experiences we had with everyone like some weird group therapy. Had people breaking down in front of everyone. And you could probably guess what demographic of people they never invited to share their experiences with everyone.

[@knuxuki1013]

Oh god, what is happening

[@xminusone1]

Yeah, I.. I can guess. As I said elswhere, They want to control everything, but they're not even able to look after their own kids.

[@Par-Blindspot]

Yea Whites not having the spotlight is unfair.

[@heretech7025]

@@Par-Blindspot lots of white people got the spotlight though.

[@davidfletcher369]

Sure, I hear ya, tell 72% of a countries population to shut up cause 2% of them have money and influence. When did majority rule stop being the fairest way to resolve difficulties? This madness only works on white majority countries cause it turns out, we actually give a shit. Try telling any other country to leave their political power up to their white minority and see how that goes.

[@PavisGladius]

This video needs to blow up in social media. Get the word out

[@caliberjacket5871]

Oblivion NPCs, nice touch

[@eodyn7]

Oblivion is one of the greatest games ever made.

[@gabler7992]

@@eodyn7 it's not. calm down

[@irelandgrt]

​@@gabler7992It was incredible in 2006. Bugs and all.

[@chrisw6164]

@@gabler7992It is, noob

[@joshyoder871]

@@eodyn7 Daggerfall was better...

[@josephnolan8217]

That scene of tropic thunder where they all come out and say they never read the script or book reminds me of that intro. Hollywood can't read source material, many can't read period.

[@maxbrandt6]

EXACTLY! Many of them wouldn't know a comic book from a coloring book!

[@josephnolan8217]

@@maxbrandt6 make hollywood read again!!! 📚

[@Ceyx000]

"I dont read the script, script reads me."

[@64onehotmama]

Tropic Thunder my all time fave comedies😂

[@aammoojanhastam3397]

They focused so much on minority that the majority was left out.

[@BlankCanvas88]

Well said!

[@greenmachine5600]

Story and writing is more important. Don't white wash or black wash characters

[@fyrchmyrddin1937]

What made you imagine it was actually about inclusion? It was about power. Just like good ol' Mao.

[@soonerbmama6727]

Unhoused/homeless the same damn thing. I saw a comment recently applauding a lady who said “unhoused” instead of homeless. 🤦🏻‍♀️ What a doofus.

[@andyharman3022]

And 40 years ago, "homeless person" was the new euphemism for "bum".

[@kathleenking47]

Like fentanyl users?

[@zhouenlai2569]

This is all very, very familiar. My grandfather grew up in the USSR. When applying for university (or for that matter for anything else) you also had to fill out forms, revealing whether your parents/grandparents have been workers or peasants (good) or academics, landowners or traders (all bad). Parent's Party membership also mattered, of course, as did active participation in various state run groups. Like war, Marxism - Leninism never changes...

[@WK-47]

I've heard something similar, people in former Soviet states who are old enough to remember living under some flavour of Marxism telling Westerners, "We've seen what happens when you go down this road. Do you have any idea what it looks like?" It's hardly worth repeating quotes about "those who do not learn history", because people with these kinds of ideas wielding this kind of power deny or revise it as they please, if they even know it in the first place. That might be what's most staggering, such people preferring to disregard the deaths of millions of human beings within just the past century if it means justifying their beliefs in the moment.

[@chee.rah.monurB]

This is all going to implode one day.There's no way this won't backfire.People are already fighting back against Judt Stop Oil,& woke media concistently fails to make a profit.

[@TyrianHaze]

@@WK-47 The people implementing these things know exactly what they are doing. They are just dressing it up as something new while robbing us blind without having to actually implement communism. They are just taking us straight back to feudalism.

[@MusicismoreImportant]

Well in USA , it was an escape / opportunity for Sergei Rachmaninoff,Nadia Comaneci,zedd, Ayn Rand, Issac Asimov 🇺🇸

[@comedyoferrors77]

Gary, could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video addressing the treatment of straight white males in marketing / commercials? I know it’s not your typical subject matter but the not-so-subtle social programming happening in marketing needs to be discussed. I’m sure I don’t have to point out how SWMs are always now portrayed as weak, feminine, or incompetent in any commercial, if they’re portrayed at all. No one in the media talks about it for fear of being called rrrrrrrracist and I believe someone with a platform like yours is the only one that can call this out. It’s a soft form of racism and a directed effort to diminish SWMs in society.

[@jakeharkunc5792]

Dude I was just thinking when’s the last time I saw a straight white couple for an tv commercial? Everything is interracial or alternative now it’s absurd.

[@7shinta7]

It's funny how advertisement has changed. I still have some VHS from the 90s with commercial breaks on them. If you compare these to todays commercials it's mind blowing. Today it's just forced diversity and girl-bosses showing completely incompetent males how it's done. Oh, and they all sound like they're talking to children.

[@ministryoflies1344]

I agree...in the UK wokeness in adverts has gotten so bad I just can't turn the TV on anymore. Especially the anti white Christian adverts at Christmas!😮

[@CultureWatcher5000]

It just gives me the message that those products aren't meant for me or people like me. In a sense, they're boycotting themselves.

[@DarkSun123456789]

Couldn't agree more, and not just for TV. When i watch Twitch sometimes i (german) get obviously german ads. For example an internet provider shows me a black girl getting out of school, giving her black female friend a "secret" handshake, coming home to her bi-racial parents with a black mom and a white dad. You can probably count how often that constellation happens with your fingers for the entirety of germany, but i's represented in advertising. Or a 80-90% POC actors advertisment for a soft drink. Or a second internet provider with a female girlboss rapper i never heard of.

[@DrewbattleTheGreat]

I’m black and the DEI thing is so weird to me. I always watched great popular black TV and movies there was never an issue. It’s literally just reverse racism

[@Maxie962]

There is no "reverse" racism. It's *just* racism, plain and simple.

[@theknifesong]

@@Maxie962 Yes it's very much discrimination based on race, gender, and sexual orientation

[@ThorneWorthington]

How can white Leftists be your heroic saviors if you fail to feel oppressed? Be considerate and feel oppressed. Do your job. Recently some theater in London asked white people not to attend on a certain day so that the black performers could recover from being oppressed by "white gaze". Now THAT'S some Olympic-grade feeling oppressed. Use that as an inspiration. I don't mean to give you a hard time, but it just doesn't seem like you're trying.

[@TromaDogg]

​​@@Maxie962I've always thought that too, however if you think about it, 'reverse racism' is a fitting term for idiots who racially discriminate against *themselves*

[@spndusk2362]

no its called anti-whitism.

[@MoonbeamGardener]

Last week I showed my kids Frequency. I described it as, "a detective and a fire fighter work together to catch a serial killer.". It dawned on me, that despite it's flaws, Frequency was an original movie, not some sequel or prequel, like so many movies are nowadays. My 14 yr old pointed out that the main character had a traditional family with a mom, a dad, and a kid. I miss creativity and Hollywood not being anti-family.

[@phonepunk7888]

Back in medieval times you would have roaming bands of flagellants whipping themselves publicly to show how pious they are. This is the same thing.

[@mrcliff3709]

Whipping yourself does take some dedication. But these pansies would cry if they saw the whips

[@n4ughty_knight]

Woah, woah, woah, at least they flayed themselves to be free from sin

[@frankie3041]

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock: “Behaviors are going to have to change. This is one thing we’re asking companies. You have to force behaviors. At BlackRock we are forcing behaviors.” And those “companies” include Hollywood studios and TV Networks and streamers.

[@crazyralph6386]

His kind has been doing this for centuries

[@Jadty]

Oy! Stop noticing!

[@pandakicker1]

@@crazyralph6386 Yeah, but this is a new level of idiocy. This is not how they get richer, this is how they completely destroy society (their income).

[@yossarian_lives]

Blackrock (and Vanguard) needs to be broken up like Standard Oil was.

[@TyrianHaze]

What they don't tell you: "Also, we forgot to mention, we are shorting all of these companies to make huge profits during their downfall, and then using those same profits to buy those companies for pennies on the dollar LOL"

[@be2keen]

When I feel like watching fictional TV, I simply watch Miami Vice, Magnum PI, Columbo, All in the Family, Get Smart... You get the point

[@joeschmo622]

Mannix, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, Peter Gunn, too.

[@d3w3yd3c1m4l]

"We don't respect the fans enough to study the source material."

[@DoubleGaijin]

What kills me is that it's spilled into every genre of media and entertainment now. Even Anime which was the Helm's Deep of Non-woke entertainment until the Rainbow Orcs crested the horizon and stormed the gates. Prime example being the recent localization drama with Dragon Maid, and then theres the slap in the face to Batman that Rocksteady just pulled. I already know the answer but I still find myself asking "How the fuck did we get to this point?".

[@McDLT666]

It started in the Frankfurt schools and made it's way into the colleges. Same group of people that brought communism to Russia and then fled to America when it failed.

[@patrickhenry8425]

Who owns the banks and media?

[@TheMASTER4real]

Complacency and a failure to call out this bs back in the early 2010s. Millennials spearheaded this socialist/communist revolution we are witnessing because they wanted to live a fantasy world where they never grew up. We as a people forgot this country was built on Christian traditional values and morality. We allowed the slippery slope of gay marriage to take place instead of vehemently condemning Barack Obama and his administration for even attempting to pass such a blasphemous and absurd law. Marriage wasn’t created by us it was created by God and if we understood that back in 08 we wouldn’t have allowed this evil to seep in to the point that we are dealing with Defiantly Evil and devious people in our government, entertainment, and business.

[@Gurt_The_Hurt]

Does this analogy mean Gary and the fellowship are Gandalf and the riders of Rohan? It fits

[@infinitydreamzz]

Not only how did we get to this point, but also how quickly we got to this point, and how is it happening across all sectors off society and in many different countries simultaneously. There must be some kind of coordination

[@ROCCATEER92]

I lost my shit at "J.E.D.I. Training". 😂 One of those moments where the reality exceeded the parody.

[@nicknevco215]

Shit the force is female only gay men allowed

[@Brian_Boru]

An acronym intentionally chosen to antagonize. These people are cruel, vindictive and they like to play mind games.

[@falkenlaser]

J.E.D.I. in this context stands for “Justification for Exclusion, Division, and Incompetence”

[@HappShib]

"shut up and entertain" it amazes me how far hollywood have strayed from their one job

[@smit7120]

Hollywood from its beginning has always been a propaganda machine people are just becoming aware of the radical message they are sending

[@wakeupuk3860]

WOW !! Throughout the 1960's I was the kid on the street who had all the DC/Marvel Comics that I copied and drew from. At school would be told off by my Junior and Lower Secondary school teachers to NOT keep including superheroes in my HW. I did this because my parents would always take me on holiday to Cornwall and the beach cafés always had American imported DC/Marvel Comics which I spent all my saved up pocket money jobs for neighbours I had done that year beforehand. So I think I can say, because I grew up learning by effectively studying DC/Marvel Comics, I knew the 'canon' of that world very well. Later in life I obtained a degree and became a teacher, thus I just can't fathom and compend that if you were a writer and been to University which in most cases writers are, if you are chosen to write for films or TV any project you would know that having there years experience of state all your references and Bibliography the need to know your topic BEFORE writing a story about it To see at the beginning of this video we saw so many writers paid to write scripts for superhero films all stating they had NEVER read the comics even the superhero they were writing about..... I have one and overall thought..... WTF !!!!

[@CrispyB8con]

First studio (old or new) to toss DEI to the curb, hire all these fantastic writers and other members of the business based on merit and starts telling good stories, is going to make BILLIONS of dollars.

[@THEBUGSAREBACCCCKKKKKKKKKK]

then you are as dumb as them That will be the plan, the ole switcheroo to fool the drones into giving them .money again despite their decisions Don't be ignorant, don't buy their products again, they don't change, they just change the paint, foundations are.still rotten and scummy

[@dongusmalongus1915]

Can people stop using the acronym DEI and instead switch to DIE, like come on it's an acronym that actually makes it sound like the evil it is and people piss it away. Also Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity flows so much better than Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

[@S_raB]

A24 is already doing this. Granted it's not a studio so much as a production company, but they do still make their own films on occasion. Regardless, almost everything they produce is great quality.

[@sarahy9513]

​@S_raB you have to be joking. A24 is so deep in DEI that if DEI were the Atlantic Ocean, A24 could give guided tours of the Titanic.

[@BobbyWanKenobi]

About the whole D.I.E. stuff being "optional"... In my country, and many post Soviet countries we have a saying, that something is "as voluntary as a May Day parade". It comes from communist times, the May Day parade, 1st of May was a celebration of Labour, one of the most important communist holidays. There were parades, social events etc. etc. and of course, they were "voluntary", but you if you didn't go, the state or party members might start to inquire as to why not, because how can a worker living in workers paradise not appreciate the labour of others and of the communist party.

[@floydiandreamscapes5145]

If only all the Woke commies in America could live 6 months under a communist government, America's culture war would be over in 7 months.

[@n4ughty_knight]

Been spending most their lives, Living in a worker's paradise

[@Punky_Brewski]

I've seen this even in screenwriting competitions and internship and mentoring applications. In the last 4 years I have observed that competition finalists/winners have been (overwhelmingly) pushing a message and schooling the audience and their writers bios have been riddled with buzzwords. I've even seen emails encouraging new writers to focus on their "trauma" and "what makes them different" in their bios. Leading to paragraphs that focus on who the writer is and not what they love about writing or why they want to write or the kinds of stories they're passionate about. The love of the craft and creating solid stories is a very distant second to "the message".

[@knuxuki1013]

It's weird and honestly frightening

[@stevenschultz9637]

They fail to understand that conformity is a defense mechanism

[@shawdowsanddust5301]

My default setting when it comes to Hollywood is "You're Not Getting My Money Ever Again". They will never get me back.