Posted: Aug 03, 2018 5:02 pm
purplerat wrote:
As to the hiring of actors, I think the inconsistency you point out is a matter of a historical power imbalance in the tv/film industry. It's a business controlled by white men for the benefit of white men. Or at least that's the way it's historically been. That's why seeing a minority or woman get a leg up is seen as a positive move while the continuing dominance of white men not so much.
Whoever gets a leg up is going to have to be a ruthless bastard. I don't see any reason why women and non-white people of any stripe should not have an equal chance at being ruthless bastards and making whatever they can of it.
purplerat wrote:The internet outrage machine ... ultimately undermines the larger goal of equality...
Ruthless bastards do not give a fuck about equality. Regardless of rhetoric they generate or that is generated for them, they are not representing their ethnic and/or gender categories in their quest for the top, whatever that means for them. If you think spreading that kind of privilege around is a manifestation of equality, then you're as racist or sexist as anyone in the internet outrage machine.
What really undermines the larger goal of equality is unbridled ruthless bastard-ism. Them that has, shall get... And it still is news. In this case, we support equal opportunity, don't we? Don't we just fucking support equal opportunity?