{"id":1210695,"date":"2022-01-12T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1210695"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:34:59","slug":"hollywoods-wokeism-has-everyone-scared-i-get-so-paranoid-about-even-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywoods-wokeism-has-everyone-scared-i-get-so-paranoid-about-even-phone-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s Wokeism Has Everyone Scared: \u2018I Get So Paranoid About Even Phone Calls\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhollywoods-wokeism-has-everyone-scared-i-get-so-paranoid-about-even-phone-calls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1210695&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An article decrying the wokeism that is running rampant throughout Hollywood, particularly marginalizing white men and silencing any opposition<em>, <\/em>noted that one writer admitted,<em> \u201c<\/em>I get so paranoid about even phone calls. It\u2019s so scary,\u201d while a showrunner asserted, \u201cThis is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kiefer and Peter Savodnik, writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/hollywoods-new-rules\">Common Sense<\/a>, started their column by recalling a time a few years ago when a prospective story suggested by the editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter about the unintended consequences of Hollywood\u2019s efforts to diversify was mocked by reporters who dismissed the idea that white men were being frozen out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the meeting, a reporter approached another editor about pursuing it,\u201d the authors continue. \u201cThe editor told the reporter to drop it. No one, he said, at The Hollywood Reporter\u2014one of a handful of trade publications that covers the ins and outs of the entertainment industry\u2014was going to risk blowing up their career over this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the 2015 Academy Awards, which were targeted in the #OscarsSoWhite supporters, in 2020 the Academy launched&nbsp;its Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a movie to qualify for Best Picture, producers not only had to register detailed personal information about everyone involved in the making of that movie, but the movie had to meet two of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/news\/academy-establishes-representation-and-inclusion-standards-oscarsr-eligibility\">Academy\u2019s four diversity standards<\/a>\u2014touching on everything from on-screen representation to creative leadership,\u201d the authors note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers\u2014all of whom identify as liberal, and all of whom described a pervasive fear of running afoul of the new dogma,\u201d the authors state, then quote one writer who said, \u201cBest way to defend yourself against the woke is to out-woke everyone, including the woke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, every conversation with every agent or head of content started with:<em>&nbsp;<\/em>Is anyone BIPOC attached to this?\u201d the authors write.<\/p>\n<p>One writer told the authors:<\/p>\n<p><em>I get so paranoid about even phone calls. It\u2019s so scary. My close friends and my family are just like, \u201cDon\u2019t say anything.\u201d It is one of those things, \u201cWill I be able to sleep at night if I say anything?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roch\u00e9e Jeffrey, a black writer for \u201cGrownish,\u201d \u201cSanta Inc.,\u201d and \u201cWoke,\u201d snapped, \u201c\u201dI don\u2019t care if white people aren\u2019t comfortable because black people are uncomfortable all the f***ing time. I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve had to bite my tongue so as not to offend white sensibilities, so I don\u2019t give a s*** if they\u2019re nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One director told the authors that the fear is \u201cthe audience stops trusting us. They begin to see us as a community twisting ourselves into a pretzel to make every movie as woke as possible, every relationship mixed racially, every character sexually fluid, and they decide that we are telling stories set in a fantasyland instead of a world they know and live in. If that happens, and they decide to throw themselves instead into video games 24\/7, we will lose them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors opine:<\/p>\n<p><em>Movies and shows that were once widely acclaimed but are now verboten, writers and directors said, included \u201cBlazing Saddles,\u201d even though it was co-written by Richard Pryor; \u201cThe Bad News Bears,\u201d even though it featured a multiracial cast; \u201cTootsie,\u201d because transgender activists; and \u201cRocky\u201d (\u201cbad guy CANNOT be black,\u201d a director explained in an email). Nor would \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d get greenlit. (\u201cThe munchkins? Forget it,\u201d the director said). Nor would \u201cAll in the Family,\u201d probably the most influential show of the 1970s. (\u201cArchie Bunker\u201d\u2014the main character\u2014\u201cis basically a Trump voter,\u201d a producer explained.) \u201cSouth Park,\u201d which debuted in 1997, has been grandfathered in. \u201cOtherwise, no way,\u201d another producer said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article decrying the wokeism that is running rampant throughout Hollywood, particularly marginalizing white men and silencing any opposition, noted that one writer admitted, \u201cI get so paranoid about even phone calls. It\u2019s so scary,\u201d while a showrunner asserted, \u201cThis is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.\u201d Peter Kiefer and Peter Savodnik, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}