Hollywood has been on a constant lookout for ways to virtue signal, even if it means criticizing itself. We’ve seen many examples of this in the last few years, like when the #OscarsSoWhite controversy prompted the Academy to implement new diversity requirements that films must meet in order to be nominated. Now, Hollywood has taken to demonizing decades-old TV shows to demonstrate its moral superiority.
“Friends” is one of the latest shows that’s fallen into critics’ crosshairs. The show premiered in 1994, but many are now slamming it for its “lack of diversity.” Marta Kauffman, one of the show’s creators, was even shamed into issuing a mea culpa for her sins, saying, “I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years. Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”
As part of her penance, Kauffman made a $4 million pledge to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to establish an endowed professorship in their African and African-American studies department. Lisa Kudrow, one of the stars of “Friends,” felt the need to weigh in on the controversy as well, saying that the show’s white creators had “no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of color.”
“Boy Meets World,” which premiered in 1993, is also being demonized. Trina McGee, the show’s only Black star, now claims that she was subjected to racist treatment during her time on the show. McGee tweeted that her co-star, Will Friedle, called her “Aunt Jemima.” She also tweeted out that he’d apologized – 22 years ago – and again more recently in a long letter. If this issue was settled more than two decades ago, why are we re-litigating it now?
We saw this same type of controversy arise a few years ago when John Wayne’s past racist comments “resurfaced.” USC removed an exhibit dedicated to the actor. There were even calls to rename Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. John Wayne died more than four decades ago. He lived in a different era, with less progressive standards. One doesn’t need to condone his words or actions to understand that renaming Orange County airport won’t solve anything.
Hollywood has far more pressing issues to deal with than using today’s standards to fix “problems” of the past. Major film studios such as Disney and Warner Brothers have been censoring their content at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party. Multiple films have been accused of promoting the sexualization of young children. Perhaps Hollywood should focus more on these real and dangerous issues instead of disparaging decades-old TV shows and actors for not being woke enough.
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“not being woke enough.” ???
Woke agenda is just reverse discrimination. The Woke agenda is to put Blacks or people of color on pedestals, give them jobs, positions and titles that they are not qualified for or earned, but only because they are black.
What happened to the Martin Luther Kings “Judge not by the color of one’s skin, but by the content of their character”??
Today it is “reward and support one for the color of their skin, and not by their character or their qualifications”
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing Tuesday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked the Supreme Court nominee: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”
Jackson, appearing confused, responded, “I’m not a biologist.”
Blackburn chided Jackson, claiming that “the fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about.”
Senators on both sides of the aisle have used Jackson’s confirmation hearing to air issues that have less to do with Jackson’s qualifications and more to do with their respective parties.
President Biden: “I am proud to announce that Karine Jean-Pierre ( an unqualified black LGBTQ female) will serve as the next White House Press Secretary.
But….. I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S..
Hey, Karine Jean-Pierre is just the latest example of affirmative action wokism. Every time she has a press briefing she shows how unqualified she is for the job.
But hey! She’s a woman of color and so very different than that pasty white redhead, so…
I mean, we got an affirmative action President, and man who got a Nobel Peace Prize simply for being elected, then ironically did not only not end any wars, but got us embroiled in a new one as he simultaneously turned back race relations sixty years while kicking off the public hatred of law enforcement officers that now plagues our society as the crime rate rises to all time highs Nation wide.
We got an affirmative action VP who has worked harder to not do anything than for doing anything. She is the prime example of the Peter Principle and failing your way up the ladder.
Affirmative Action is the Granddaddy of Wokism.
The Left keeps warning about Toxic Manliness, which is bogus, while I have been warning about and now find myself trying to fight against Toxic Wokism.
What always irks me when they keep bandering around those terms, is i’ve yet to see a single instance where ‘being white, or being male’ has EVER ADVANCED or benefitted me.
Schooling, always seemed to have benefits for women/miniorities over white males.
Work, same.
Cops, are less likely to ticket/arrest a woman than a man, and even if they do, are 70% or so LESS LIKELY TO charge a woman, with the SAME level of crime as a man is..
SO EXACTLY What benefits has my MAN CARD ever given me??
The guilt manipulated socially indoctrinated American public has been duped to cease rewarding pursuits and people of excellence, into elevating the people with the least amount of gray matter upstairs, no matter what skin color displayed on the outside. The dumber the person, the easier to indoctrinate. Too many people are being educated and indoctrinated in subjects way too complex for their simple minds to embrace in creative ways, and so the destruction continues to the point they all now even work in the highest offices of the Executive branch of the Whitehouse, hired on worthless educational credentials paid for in redistributed dollars of honest wealth creating American laborers. By educationally empowering these people of limited mind capacity, whose capacity for morality is just as small, has only resulted in highly empowered, highly overeducated criminals, now in charge of a country convinced that social redistribution of honest wealth is not the dishonest theft by any means or definition that it clearly now is. The 20% of any human population that creates 80% of the wealth has now become the new enemy of the Democrat Party, except of course their own-well healed fearless leaders of the party. This cannot not end well.
Education? Surely you jest. Don’t you mean INDOCTRINATION?
i hope the liberal morons in ************ just eat themselves up until it all implodes.
Next Hollywood will have a W rating just like X movies but these will warn that too many Whites or Whites only are displayed as actors in said movies. Their problem is that they will be as successful in promoting racial equity as providing safe gun violence scene shootings like the ones done to Brandon Lee and by Alec Baldwin. There are Legions of White viewers longing for the days when they can see representatives of their own race portrayed in movies other than either race prejudiced and malevolent privileged, or harmless Swiss cheese brained dumb and dumber idiots. Just let the viewers, not the actors vote in best actor and actress, not the Hollywood social experimenters, and the fraud of their wokeness will soon be revealed as the box office returns again soar back to movies that display real values, not imaginary drug, sex, violence and mind boggling distortions of workable human values movies, whose scripts appear to have been written inside a smoke filled Chinese opium den.
If you’re waiting for me to turn my eyes to the truth, it ain’t gonna happen. Diversity, equity, that’s all one hears. Have not seen a Hollywood picture in a movie theater since Saving Private Ryan. I want no part of this culture. Just erase the “ure” and you got it. An understanding of all this ****.
If they want to ban racist things from the past, then let’s start with the “Democratic” Party? This CRIMINAL RACIST Party is the most racist organization in the world. If we are going to cancel shows from past era’s, then why not ban the party that started it all? The “Democratic” Party brought us slavery, and a war to fight it, they brought us the KKK and Jim Crow Laws, so, why hasn’t this racist organization been banned and cancelled like all the “racist” shows they are attacking?
BECAUSE like always, THEY BLAME OTHERS for what they, themselves, are doing AND HAVE done…
Commiewood formaly known as Hollywood should be quarantined. All sentient life there has been exterminated. The only things left in that cesspool is brain dead zombies.
As i’ve often joked. IF A Zombie apocalypse ever DID break out LEFTISTS Would be safe, as they have no brains for zombies to want to eat!
Put your money where your mouth is, Hollywood. Never allow another episode of Friends to be broadcast or streamed anywhere. Immediately cease sales of all Friends related merchandise and memorabilia. Calculate how much money the show generated, adjusting for inflation, and donate that amount to BLM and other groups grifting off of victim culture.
Hollywood should rename itself to HELL.
it’s tiresome. and hey, look over here. the mullahs who your taxes financed into your very own nuclear suicide, not that they haven’t warned you, are stuffing even more biden bucks into their murderous craws. all that money will go to also pay their proxies all over the world who will get rid of the leftovers. a pun.
No, no, no! Do not make a donation. Take every single dime that anyone made from that show, and give it back! Every single dollar. Put your woke, leftist, knee bending money, where your pathetic mouth is! Give it ALL back. Just a bunch a hypocrite’s.