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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by wolverine876 on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:48AM (#29839039)
> In the 1990s there were loads of superstar Black actors.

I think if you look at overall black representation among actors, you will see it was very low. If you look for some in your memory, you will find them of course.

Even now, almost everything is led by a white person. Even in animation, almost everyone is white. Or look at sci-fi movies, where there are often as many or more alien species as non-white humans.

> The woke with their CRT and racial segregation policies (telling children that race really matters a lot) have ruined everything.

What is being told the children by whom? What does CRT say? If you dispute that race has a large (though certainly undesireable) impact on life, you are living in a sci-fi fantasy.

> ruined everything

I think it has, or threatens to, burst many bubbles, which 'ruins' many fantasies. Just talk to people with actual experience of it, such as black people, and you will find out just how isolated we have been from reality. Most white people don't do that because they don't have many black people in their personal network, which should be a signal.

Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by grog454 on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:45PM (#29848701)
>Even now, almost everything is led by a white person. Even in animation, almost everyone is white. Or look at sci-fi movies, where there are often as many or more alien species as non-white humans.

If not "almost everything [was] led by a white person" it would be an under or over representation of multiple races, at least if it is supposed to be a "representation" of the western world*. You can google "us race demographics" and it will conveniently bring up a table showing 76.3% white and 13.4% black. I think some people forget that a motely crew of exactly one of every race is someone's utopian ideal with no basis in reality. And it's not hard to extend that idea to any arbitrary subset of humans in almost any context.

*The entire world isn't any "better": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_world

Edit: googled "actor demographics":

There are over 19,730 Actors currently employed in the United States. 32.1% of all Actors are women, while 63.9% are men. The average age of an employed Actor is 37 years old. The most common ethnicity of Actors is White (59.5%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (15.6%) and Black or African American (13.9%).

If someone's personal experience with actor demographics doesn't reflect that, its most likely because what they typically watch doesn't reflect it and not because of a systemic imbalance.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by cloverich on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:38AM (#29841232)
> completely defined by their racial group

I don't know much about CRT but when I google high ranking results[1], the very first tenet is literally the opposite of your claim: Recognition that race is not biologically real but is socially constructed and socially significant.

[1]: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...