{"id":74638,"date":"2015-09-16T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74638"},"modified":"2015-09-16T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T15:50:15","slug":"wp-matt-damon-faces-online-backlash-after-dismissing-diversity-behind-the-camera-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74638","title":{"rendered":"WP: Matt Damon faces online backlash after dismissing diversity behind the camera in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

These articles on diversity never seem to mention the Jew-Gentile split. Hollywood has always been a Jewish industry and there’s no evidence that is changing, even 100 years in<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What does diversity mean? Is it only about blacks and women? Do Gentiles need quotas in Hollywood?<\/p>\n

WaPo<\/a>: Actor\/producer\/screenwriter\/humanitarian\/dreamboat Matt Damon is not one who often runs afoul of liberals. He stumped for <\/span>Barack Obama<\/span><\/a> \u2014 at least until the two \u201c<\/span>broke up<\/span><\/a>,\u201d as Damon put it, over drone warfare and NSA surveillance. He runs a charity that focuses on water programs in Africa. He even wants to stop the delivery of junk mail because <\/span>it\u2019s not environmentally friendly<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Damon seemed to spend much of his liberal political capital on Sunday. In an episode of the HBO series \u201cProject Greenlight\u201d \u2014 a reality show, created by one-time Hollywood Cinderellas Damon and pal Ben Affleck, in which newbies compete for a chance to make a $3 million movie \u2014 Damon held forth on diversity in the entertainment biz. He said, more or less, that it\u2019s not always important.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re talking about diversity, you do it in the casting of the film, not in the casting of the show,\u201d Damon said<\/a>. Translation: Diversity is needed among actors onscreen, but not among filmmakers behind the camera.<\/p>\n

What was worse, for many viewers: Damon\u2019s remark came in conversation with Effie Brown<\/a>, the African American producer of many films, including last year\u2019s critically lauded \u201cDear White People<\/a>,\u201d and a judge on \u201cProject Greenlight.\u201d Thus, it seemed that a white male \u2014 a very famous, Oscar-winning white male \u2014 was lecturing a lesser-known artist of color on how Hollywood works.<\/p>\n

Brown was visibly shocked: \u201cWow, ok,\u201d she said. She had been discussing the need for sensitivity in a script with racially charged subject matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to urge people to think about, whoever this director is, the way they\u2019re going to treat the character of Harmony, her being a prostitute, the only black person who gets beat by her white pimp,\u201d Brown \u2014 the only black woman in the room at the time \u2014 said.<\/p>\n

Damon doubled down in an interview later in the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like you would undermine what the competition is supposed to be about, which is about giving somebody this job based entirely on merit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Outrage on social media was directed to the hashtag \u201cDamonsplaining\u201d \u2014 a take on \u201cwhitesplaining,\u201d defined by the Urban Dictionary<\/a> as \u201cthe paternalistic lecture given by Whites toward a person of color defining what should and shouldn\u2019t be considered racist, while obliviously exhibiting their own racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou highlighted the problem w\/even well-meaning white ppl,\u201d one user wrote Brown on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cThey still think they know better how to represent [people of color] than PoC.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just the Twittersphere that was up in arms. There was also the online petition-sphere. One such petition demanded the actor apologize to Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile raising concerns that an all white male directing team might not be the best choice to properly direct a movie about a Black female prostitute who is slapped by her white pimp \u2014 Matt Damon decided to cut her off and whitesplained diversity to Effie Brown,\u201d an online petition read<\/a>. \u201cDamon told her that diversity behind the camera doesn\u2019t matter. Matt Damon couldn\u2019t be more wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative news outlets, meanwhile, offered outrage about the outrage \u2014 or just cackled. Breitbart<\/a>: \u201cLeft Eats Liberal Matt Damon for Offering Opinion about Diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These articles on diversity never seem to mention the Jew-Gentile split. Hollywood has always been a Jewish industry and there’s no evidence that is changing, even 100 years in. What does diversity mean? Is it only about blacks and women? … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74643,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions\/74643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}