Hollywood’s “old boys club is dead,” writes the Free Press. “But a new one—with its own litmus tests and landmines—is rapidly replacing it. ‘This is all going to end in a giant class-action’.”
The outlet spoke to “more than 25 writers, directors, and producers—all of whom identify as liberal, and all described a pervasive fear of running afoul of the new [woke]dogma.”
“Best way to defend yourself against the woke is to out-woke everyone, including the woke,” one writer told the Free Press, which would go a long way towards explaining the self-humiliation Stephen King and Rob Reiner engage in daily by way of Twitter.
How do you out-woke the woke? Easy. “Suddenly, every conversation with every agent or head of content started with: Is anyone BIPOC attached to this?”
For those who don’t know, “BIPOC” stands for something-something people of color.
The result is McCarthyism 2.0:
“Everyone has gone so underground with their true feelings about things,” said Mike White, the writer and director behind the hit HBO comedy-drama “The White Lotus.” “If you voice things in a certain way, it can really have negative repercussions for you, and people can presume that you could be racist, or you could be seen as misogynist.”
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Another writer, who, like most of the writers we interviewed, was afraid to speak openly for fear of never working again, said: “I get so paranoid about even phone calls. It’s so scary. My close friends and my family are just like, ‘Don’t say anything.’ It is one of those things, ‘Will I be able to sleep at night if I say anything?’ Getting jobs in this town is so hard, and I’m very grateful to have a great job. If there’s any so-called ding on my record, that would just be an argument against hiring me.”
It is, said Sam Wasson, the author of “The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood,” not so different from the McCarthy era, when everyone in Hollywood professed to believe something that they thought everyone outside Hollywood—the country, their audience—believed. “Hollywood was never anti-Communist,” Wasson said. “It just pretended to be. In fact, Hollywood was never anti- or pro- anything. It was show business. There’s no morality here.”
One industry professional after another tells the Free Press that managers and agents constantly tell them that the production is not hiring white men.
“Now, they’ll just say, ‘Sorry, diversity quotas. We’re just not allowed to hire you,’” a white male comedy writer explained. He says his agent also dumped him.
One writer showed the Free Press email proof of the open discrimination.
“This one a dead end — they are going to limit the search to women and bipoc candidates,” read one email. Another said, “There are some internally that don’t like the idea of hiring a white guy. I wish I had a better way to frame it. Hate this shit.” One more laid it out in just a few words, “Studio now telling us this job must go to a female / bipoc writer. Sorry — it sucks.”
Some have pushed back on this notion by saying there is no discrimination. Blaming “woke” is just an easy excuse for an agent or manager who failed to do his job, they say.
But.
The racist left isn’t exactly in hiding.
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