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~~Leo656~~ · 05-10-2021, 10:10 PM

It's like the entertainment industry as a whole in recent times is being "punished" for the fact that people of certain ethnicities very often tend to pursue other careers.

I mean, sure, times have changed since I was in high school. But I doubt they've changed THAT much. My school was very diverse, but the entire Drama department (both actors and "crew" people) was white kids. I had a lot of friends in Drama so I remember how it was quite vividly. Tryouts were open to everyone and they always had opening for backstage crew as well, but the fact is it was almost 100% only white kids who joined Drama. Nobody was being "discriminated" against, it's just that Black and Hispanic and Asian and Indian kids all did other sh*t and didn't care about acting or being a stagehand or whatever. I think there was like one Asian kid and one Black kid, but that's it. You had to try out to get into the Drama club and most non-white kids simply didn't give a sh*t.

I mean, this might sound "mean" or whatever but a lot of stereotypes exist for a reason. Of all the black kids I was friends with, or even knew casually, not one of them had any aspirations to be an actor, or a director, or a producer; their preferred career opportunities were almost always either "Sports Star" or "Rapper" (none of them made it to either, but that's not my point). The Indian kids all went into Computer Science. The Asian kids were all into chemistry, and some of them were also into Computer Science. And so on and so forth. None of the non-white kids had any aspirations whatsoever to be involved in movies or TV, either in front of or behind the camera. If they wanted to be, the opportunities were there. They simply had other interests; that should be "allowed".

And yeah, that's all anecdotal, but in my experience that does sort of seem to be the case on a macro level as well; acting and production is just a thing more white people aspire to get into, therefore you're going to have more white people than non-white people both in front of and behind the cameras. How can you rightly "penalize" someone for that? It's like saying we should penalize and boycott ballet because not enough men are represented; they're not represented because men generally don't give a sh*t about doing it in the first place. And that's perfectly fine.

Not everything is as simple as checking boxes and making numbers even. Nobody gave a sh*t about any of this kinda stuff until about 5 years ago, and now it's The Most Important Thing In The World.

Except the truth is, most people still don't give a sh*t.

I mean nobody's ever given a sh*t about the goddamn Golden Globes in the first place, but this nonsense isn't exclusive to this one thing, is my point.

05-10-2021, 10:10 PM	#2
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	It's like the entertainment industry as a whole in recent times is being "punished" for the fact that people of certain ethnicities very often tend to pursue other careers. I mean, sure, times have changed since I was in high school. But I doubt they've changed THAT much. My school was very diverse, but the entire Drama department (both actors and "crew" people) was white kids. I had a lot of friends in Drama so I remember how it was quite vividly. Tryouts were open to everyone and they always had opening for backstage crew as well, but the fact is it was almost 100% only white kids who joined Drama. Nobody was being "discriminated" against, it's just that Black and Hispanic and Asian and Indian kids all did other sht and didn't care about acting or being a stagehand or whatever. I think there was like one Asian kid and one Black kid, but that's it. You had to try out to get into the Drama club and most non-white kids simply didn't give a sht. I mean, this might sound "mean" or whatever but a lot of stereotypes exist for a reason. Of all the black kids I was friends with, or even knew casually, not one of them had any aspirations to be an actor, or a director, or a producer; their preferred career opportunities were almost always either "Sports Star" or "Rapper" (none of them made it to either, but that's not my point). The Indian kids all went into Computer Science. The Asian kids were all into chemistry, and some of them were also into Computer Science. And so on and so forth. None of the non-white kids had any aspirations whatsoever to be involved in movies or TV, either in front of or behind the camera. If they wanted to be, the opportunities were there. They simply had other interests; that should be "allowed". And yeah, that's all anecdotal, but in my experience that does sort of seem to be the case on a macro level as well; acting and production is just a thing more white people aspire to get into, therefore you're going to have more white people than non-white people both in front of and behind the cameras. How can you rightly "penalize" someone for that? It's like saying we should penalize and boycott ballet because not enough men are represented; they're not represented because men generally don't give a sht about doing it in the first place. And that's perfectly fine. Not everything is as simple as checking boxes and making numbers even. Nobody gave a sht about any of this kinda stuff until about 5 years ago, and now it's The Most Important Thing In The World. Except the truth is, most people still don't give a sht. I mean nobody's ever given a sht about the goddamn Golden Globes in the first place, but this nonsense isn't exclusive to this one thing, is my point.