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Category Archives: Hollywood
Does Diversity In Hollywood Mean Fewer Jews?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Put Morgan Freeman in every movie and make sure the credits proclaim ‘This film is based on a story’ by a Dontravious or Shaneeka along with ‘technical assistance’ provided by some other minority and you … Continue reading
Celia Finkelstein: ‘I have no current plans to kill myself.’
Celia’s Twitter bio says: “I’m an actor and a writer and I have no current plans to kill myself.” Wow. She links to her IMDB page from where I take this lovely photo. According to her IMDB bio: “Celia Finkelstein … Continue reading
Anti-Gentilism Or Pro-Globalism?
From the Chateau: Does anti-Gentilism or pro-Globalism primarily motivate diaspora Jewish Leftism? Submitted for your consideration, two insightful comments, the first arguing for the former explanation and the second for the latter explanation. Arguing the anti-Gentilism case, reader Name Redacted … Continue reading
Chris Rock’s Oscar Monologue
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Did anyone just see the Chris Rock Oscar monologue? Holy crap, I was not expecting that all! It had some of the most “HBD-influenced” commentary I have ever seen in a mainstream media event. I … Continue reading
Was The TV Show ‘Friends’ Sexist?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Apparently, Friends‘s worst sin is the fact that Chandler was hyper-upset and paranoid whenever people accused him of being gay. Apparently, being upset for being confused as gay isn’t allowed, since, according to the left, … Continue reading
#OscarsTooWhite
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I think any White ethnicity or social class that’s been repeatedly slandered by Hollywood should delight in seeing them have to take their own medicine. White Southerners, Germans, Englishmen, WASPs, Russians, European aristocrats, European peasants, … Continue reading
NYT: Coaching Stars to Avoid a ‘Racist Against Whites’ Moment
New York Times: Concerns peaked after Charlotte Rampling, the British best actress nominee from “45 Years,” told a French radio station last month that talk of a boycott was “racist against whites.” Her publicity team, aghast, quickly went to work, … Continue reading
Hail Caesar
Comments to Steve Sailer: * So they actually made the Commies the bad guys? Hard to believe. Is this some kind of sea change? This is mainstream Hollywood, where the memo is that the various trans/gay/questioning/racial/ethnic/gender groups have been oppressed … Continue reading
Old White Guys
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Don’t forget possible candidate Michael Bloomberg who will be 74 in another 8 days. Of the group, Trump is the only one who appears to be much younger than his actual age of 69. And, … Continue reading
The Orthodox Jew On Top Of Glenn Beck’s Empire
The movement to diversify Hollywood is a movement to drive out Jews. Hollywood is a Jewish industry. Making it more diverse makes it less Jewish. It’s not whites who run Hollywood so much as Jews who run Hollywood. From the … Continue reading