{"id":1928734,"date":"2023-05-11T06:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T10:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-brown-richard-dreyfuss-and-the-difference-between-cultural-capitulation-and-cultural-sensitivity\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T10:47:11","slug":"michael-brown-richard-dreyfuss-and-the-difference-between-cultural-capitulation-and-cultural-sensitivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-brown-richard-dreyfuss-and-the-difference-between-cultural-capitulation-and-cultural-sensitivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Brown: Richard Dreyfuss on Cultural Sensitivity vs. Capitulation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fmichael-brown-richard-dreyfuss-and-the-difference-between-cultural-capitulation-and-cultural-sensitivity%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=1928734&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--><h2>Cultural Capitulation vs. Cultural Sensitivity<\/h2>\n<p>There is a massive difference between cultural capitulation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-super-fan-wokeness-is-ruining-the-theme-park-experience\/\" title=\"Disney Super Fan: \u2018Wokeness\u2019 Is Ruining The Theme Park Experience\">cultural sensitivity<\/a>. We should resist the former and practice the latter.<\/p>\n<h3>What is Cultural Capitulation?<\/h3>\n<p>Cultural capitulation means bowing down to the latest cultural fad, of kowtowing to the most current manifestation of what is PC, of becoming slaves to whatever the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-brown-richard-dreyfuss-and-the-difference-between-cultural-capitulation-and-cultural-sensitivity\/\" title=\"Michael Brown: Richard Dreyfuss on Cultural Sensitivity vs. Capitulation.\">societal elites decide<\/a> is acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>A current example would be the cultural mandate that requires us to give our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/va-school-to-appeal-ruling-to-reinstate-teacher-who-opposed-using-preferred-gender-pronouns-at-school\/\" title=\"Va. school to appeal ruling to reinstate teacher who opposed using preferred gender pronouns at school\">preferred gender pronouns<\/a> or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transsexuals-pen-letter-asking-u-s-based-medical-organizations-to-reject-ideology-in-favor-of-evidence\/\" title=\"Transsexuals Pen Letter Asking U.S.-Based Medical Organizations To Reject Ideology In Favor Of Evidence\">deny biological realities<\/a> when talking with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-board-threatening-dr-jordan-b-petersons-license-over-tweets-pushes-radical-gender-race-theories\/\" title=\"Canadian Board Threatening Dr Jordan B Peterson\u2019s License Over Tweets Pushes Radical Gender, Race Theories\">trans-identified person<\/a>. We rightly say no to that mandate for many reasons. (For a listing of relevant articles, go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/topic\/gender-pronouns\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<h3>What is Cultural Sensitivity?<\/h3>\n<p>Cultural sensitivity means recognizing what could legitimately offend someone in another culture or be easily misunderstood. This is something we often learn the hard way, especially when traveling to other countries or hosting people from other cultures. There are cultural taboos of which we know nothing until we cross a forbidden line.<\/p>\n<p>The difficult question is to be able to determine when something is a matter of unacceptable cultural capitulation and when it\u2019s a matter of legitimate cultural sensitivity.<\/p>\n<h3>Richard Dreyfuss on Artistic Expression<\/h3>\n<p>All this can be illustrated in a recent interview on PBS\u2019 Firing Line with the famed actor Richard Dreyfus. He was asked by Margaret Hoover for his views on the new Oscar rules in which a film would not be eligible for best picture unless it met certain requirements for inclusion and representation.<\/p>\n<p>He responded, \u201cThey make me vomit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How so? \u201cBecause,\u201d explained, \u201cthis is an art form, it\u2019s also a form of commerce, and it makes money, but it\u2019s an art. And no one should be telling me, as an artist, that I have to give in to the latest most current idea of what morality is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cAnd what are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people\u2019s feelings? You can\u2019t legislate that. And you have to let life be life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a minority or a majority in the country that has to be catered to like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the Jaws actor opined, you have to let art be art without worrying about meeting some kind of hiring quota. You need to hire the best people who can do the best job. That\u2019s what art and creativity require.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, to bring in an argument that Dreyfuss did not raise, you could require the NBA to draft more White basketball players or Silicon Valley to employ less Asians. Ability and success would now become secondary to skin color or ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, to some extent, there are quotas like this that exist. Hollywood is not the first to go in this direction. But to say, \u201cYour film cannot be considered for the best picture Oscar because you didn\u2019t meet our quota,\u201d is to put stifling limits on artistic expression.<\/p>\n<p>Dreyfuss wouldn\u2019t have it for a minute, also saying that we can\u2019t be required to walk on eggshells because it might offend a certain portion of Americans. In a similar spirit, Cindy Adams wrote in a 2022 op-ed piece for the New York Post, \u201cWokeness is killing everything, including comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Dreyfuss didn\u2019t stop there. He pointed out that Lawrence Olivier was the last White man to play Othello, doing so in Blackface in 1968 \u2013 and doing it very well. He asked, \u201cAm I being told that I will never have a chance to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a massive difference between cultural capitulation and cultural sensitivity. We should resist the former and practice the latter.\u00a0What do I mean by cultural capitulation? I mean bowing down to the latest cultural fad, of kowtowing to the most current manifestation of what is PC, of becoming slaves to whatever the societal elites decide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1928735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10642,7358,6824,15169,5177,6482,14024,11772],"class_list":["post-1928734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cultural","tag-capitulation","tag-brown","tag-dreyfuss","tag-michael","tag-richard","tag-sensitivity","tag-vs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928734","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}