Last month a study came out which suggested that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs have had the perverse effect of increasing workplace hostility and making racial tensions worse.
People hired to be DEI enforcers are nothing more than political kommissars engaged to hamstring everything that works/functions in a business/industry. As a historical lesson the political kommissar was borne out of The Red Army, where every unit had a military commander & a political kommissar whose duty it was to ensure “the revolution” continued & every soldier executed the wishes of the regime. The kommissars could countermand any order from the military commander if they thought it insufficiently “revolutionary”. Well they were firmly entrenched in The Red Army by the time the Soviet Union launched its unprovoked attack on Finland in 1939. The operation became a fiasco as the Finns outthought, outfought, & outmaneuvered them to a humiliating degree. The Red Army lost probably close to 500,000 men. This largely played into Hitler’s summation that the “whole rotten structure would collapse” as long as one “kicked in the door”. The political kommissars were still issuing disastrous counter orders right thru until about mid-1942 when Soviet generals - recognizing the catastrophic defeats @ the hands of the Germans - were in no small part due to the machinations of the political kommissars. They finally convinced Stalin to reel them in which he did.
Well said. I just don't know how they will recover. I think they will just be replaced, by other filmmakers in Japan, for instance, who still make classical movies.
I have a couple of other things to say that I might comment on separately, but the one place where imo you played fast and loose here was your claim re: Hollywood being the most Progressive Industry.
On race, and surely on sexual orientation, I’m willing to accept that you are if not completely correct, then at least mostly correct.
But on sex, surely you are not. #MeToo demonstrated pretty well that even if Harvey Weinstein was an outlier, he was hardly alone. And the “coverup” included most of the industry.
In fact, almost all of Corporate America’s policies and practices were more favorable to women than Hollywood’s were for decades now.
People hired to be DEI enforcers are nothing more than political kommissars engaged to hamstring everything that works/functions in a business/industry. As a historical lesson the political kommissar was borne out of The Red Army, where every unit had a military commander & a political kommissar whose duty it was to ensure “the revolution” continued & every soldier executed the wishes of the regime. The kommissars could countermand any order from the military commander if they thought it insufficiently “revolutionary”. Well they were firmly entrenched in The Red Army by the time the Soviet Union launched its unprovoked attack on Finland in 1939. The operation became a fiasco as the Finns outthought, outfought, & outmaneuvered them to a humiliating degree. The Red Army lost probably close to 500,000 men. This largely played into Hitler’s summation that the “whole rotten structure would collapse” as long as one “kicked in the door”. The political kommissars were still issuing disastrous counter orders right thru until about mid-1942 when Soviet generals - recognizing the catastrophic defeats @ the hands of the Germans - were in no small part due to the machinations of the political kommissars. They finally convinced Stalin to reel them in which he did.
Well said. I just don't know how they will recover. I think they will just be replaced, by other filmmakers in Japan, for instance, who still make classical movies.
I remain ever hopeful. Thanks for the kind words
“a vast class of activists and racial grifters who saw in Obama’s election not the fullfillment of a promise, but the end of a lucrative gravy train.”
Exactly. The election of Obama did not end racism, it reignited the racial grievance industry.
I have a couple of other things to say that I might comment on separately, but the one place where imo you played fast and loose here was your claim re: Hollywood being the most Progressive Industry.
On race, and surely on sexual orientation, I’m willing to accept that you are if not completely correct, then at least mostly correct.
But on sex, surely you are not. #MeToo demonstrated pretty well that even if Harvey Weinstein was an outlier, he was hardly alone. And the “coverup” included most of the industry.
In fact, almost all of Corporate America’s policies and practices were more favorable to women than Hollywood’s were for decades now.