A rather timely report following last evening’s Oscar Awards ceremony.

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    In a stunning twist, people like to see their own reflections represented in cinema. When you expand the casting, you expand your audience.

    We’ve known this since the fucking 1950s. The original Ocean’s 11 movie (the Sinatra film from 1960) was doing DEI casting with their Rat Pack crew of immigrants, minorities, and women and audiences ate it up.

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      You want diversity so you can see yourself in the roles.

      I want diversity so I can tell the fucking characters apart

      We are not the same

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        I want diversity so I can tell the fucking characters apart

        I could tell that whole cast of Reservoir Dogs apart.

        Old White Guy

        Smug White Guy

        Chubby White Guy

        Psycho White Guy

        British White Guy

        Director of the Movie

        Cop

        That’s a cornucopia