Author: Hollywood Makes Anti-White Sentiment Worse
Jeremy Carl's 'Unprotected Class' exposes discriminatory views in La La Land
“Hamilton” is one of the most revered pop productions of the past decade.
Tony Awards. Critical raves. Mass adulation.
Author Jeremy Carl doesn’t disagree. He also points to other elements of the show that reflect a disturbing trend. He shares more in his new book, “The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart.”
“…by casting minorities, overwhelmingly African American, for almost every part except for that of the most notable, uncomplicated villain (a white actor), an unsettling message is being relayed,” he writes in the book.
Carl explored the challenging subject on The Hollywood in Toto Podcast.
“The Unprotected Class” arrives at a time when “Male and pale is stale” is the catchphrase behind the scenes at Disney. Prominent authors describe a landscape where being white and male puts a target on their backs (before backpedaling under extreme social pressure).
A bombshell 2022 report at The Free Press categorized how Hollywood discrimination works.
Howard Koch, who has been involved in the production of more than 60 movies, including such classics as “Chinatown” and “Marathon Man,” and is the former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, said: “I’m all for LGBT and Native Americans, blacks, females, whatever minorities that have not been served correctly in the making of content, whether it’s television or movies or whatever, but I think it’s gone too far. I know a lot of very talented people that can’t get work because they’re not black, Native American, female or LGBTQ.”
Plus, comic actor Tyler Fischer is suing his former management for allegedly telling him being a straight, white male made it impossible to find work for him.
The author acknowledges Hollywood’s racist past, from keeping minorities off screen to over-corrections like the “magical Negro” trope. And Carl cringes at characters like Long Duk Dong from “Sixteen Candles,” while admitting the 1984 John Hughes film has value above and beyond that bald stereotype.
The current thinking can still be unproductive when it’s not outright discriminatory.
“‘Hamilton’ is artistically a terrific product, but that doesn’t mean you can’t interrogate some of the racial ideology behind it,” Carl said.
Also worth discussing? The addition of minority names added to Hollywood projects to boost their diversity quotas, whether or not they contributed significantly to the work in play. Carl says he learned that firsthand from conversations with author and screenwriter Andrew Klavan.
Progressive thinking is primarily to blame for the cultural winds blowing through Hollywood, Carl argued.
“The Left controls the commanding heights of the culture, and they want to tell a certain type of story in a certain type of way and have a certain type of view of what should be represented,” he said of the trend.
To hear more from Carl, and find out the newest cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome, check out the full podcast.
Basically, yeah. Some of us would still like to have some sort of career in the film/television industry and the little work I did get in the past was let’s just say low.
I understand that specific groups of people were kept out of the industry in the past. I also understand that specific groups of people when given roles in the past were minor on purpose or promoting stereotypes? However, casting a white male or white person always as a villain now is getting boring and how is that also not a stereotype. I barely watch now anything new.
So, in essence, generations like me who did not do past crimes have to pay for other people’s past crimes who are long dead?
How is that fair at all?
Lastly, being whatever you are should not limit you in roles. In other words, this idea that someone with dark skin now must always be good or someone with light skin is always a bad person, how does that fully show the true representation of yourself as a person? I would think that actors would want to expand on many types of roles to be a full-fledged actor or maybe I mean work on their acting muscles? Not sure if this last comment of mine makes sense?
Gee movies that feature a one legged Tarzan; a black Cleopatra; a Chinese Henry V; a Puerto Rican Custer are fine with me. After all I loved the Oz movie that featured Munchkins as big as the Hulk that were wymen who looked like the Hildabeast. Then again so do the folks at Disney.
I rarely watch anything made after the 90’s. Anything made in the last 10 years I skip completely unless a friend or reviewer I trust says it has no wokeness in it. Tonight, I watched “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” and had a great time. I have an extensive collection of phyiscal media. I need nothing more from Hollywood, they are welcome to close their doors.
I’m Black and don’t like the increased attempts to over-represent(there’s no other way to describe it) nonwhites. Also, there’s a TV show called “Hudson and Rex” and there’s a demographic that is seldom represented(odd considering this is a CANADIAN show); the White FEMALE. ALL of the shows regulars are male and/or nonwhite. White females are guest stars and one-offs at that. Just as disturbingly, they too often portray White women as bad people.
There’s another unwritten rule that black men can’t be villains any more. Imagine if James Earl Jones wasn’t allowed to voice Darth Vader? Tony Todd as Candyman. Actors love playing villains.
I just hope that, as white actors who are busting tables at some greasy spoon in LA because they can’t get roles due to their paleness, they stop to reflect on the occasions where they helped create and feed this woke beast that is now devouring them.
Hollywood is over correcting its own racial and sexist discrimination by doing the same thing again and again. I thought the movies in the 1980s and 90s were very good and had a lot of good stories with a diverse cast, but Woke, DEI, and ESG is clearly reverse discrimination. Woke has been fought since the Harvard lawsuit on racist admissions. No one wants race to be a factor to decide. The progressive liberals haven’t stopped their agenda despite many trips to the Supreme Court. So here we are. Woke movies and shows are terrible. The public voted at the box office and streaming ratings. They don’t like it. Diversity can’t be the plot nor can they replace the audience. If they believe in identity politics, some races aren’t represented. Mainstream representation is enjoyed by all races.