ANTIRACIST GOSPEL: 'Male & Pale' Prevails
A Hard Truth for Hollywood Is A ‘Threat’ to D.E.I., W.E.F., Penske Publications & Other Anti-American Globalist Dark Forces
“She said ‘There is no reason’ / And the truth is plain to see / But I wandered through my playing cards / And would not let her be / So it was much later, as the miller told his tale / That her face, at first just ghostly / Turned A Whiter Shade of Pale…” — Procol Harum
“Male and pale is stale.” — Hate-driven Hollywood’s latest racist Big Lie
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“You made me.”
Like Batman and the Joker’s climactic exchange late in the third act of Tim Burton’s Grand Guignol 1989 flying rodent comic book film adaptation, I nod ironically in the direction of NPR’s Eric Deggens, notorious schizophrenic Ibram Xolani Kendi/Henry Rogers, and of course the suspiciously slenderized Oprah, among many many other insufferable people, many of them self-hating Caucasians.
What they all have in common, besides their taxing toxicity, is they told me over and over and over again on television and social media and radio and billboards that it isn’t enough to not be racist. I’m supposed to be “anti-racist.”
Big ask! I was never racist. My family did not raise me that way. But according to these “experts,” I’m supposed to up my game. Fight the power! White Power, that is.
Except not the Real White Power. Not the mostly white men and white women running the multi-trillion dollar venture capital firms and single trillion-dollar pharmaceutical conglomerates and multi-billion dollar multi-media corporations and also multi-billion dollar advertising holding companies, who are all white. Unless you don’t think Jewish equals white, which seems to be subject to ongoing debate and a story for another day (or never). But let us at least mention in passing that if you decide that Jewish does not equal white, then not many white people run entertainment conglomerates or finance or pharma at all. Sorry! Let’s move on!
What’s happening now in our upside-down society of ever-escalating inversions seems well beyond anti-racist to me, so far past that it’s done a 180° and ended up back in racism. A deadly destination for fools and charlatans and grifters and fame whores, rooted in an outdated sense of revenge on one hand and the eager shit-stirring chaos from those who just want to watch the world burn on t’other.
So with all due respect and apologies to the bleating self-hating and self-flagellating pale people and diversity hire NPR hacks and split personality guilt-projection machine Ibram X, plus (+?) of course the Ozempic-ized Oprah, let me get up on my Ivory soapbox and address all non-stupid critical thinking people on the side of the Invisible Hand of Capitalism and not the Hidden Hand hive mind with a warning:
There’s yet another ridiculous fundamentally dishonest and dangerous viral marketing whisper campaign going around Hollywood (and probably elsewhere) that will cause The Town to lose even more money than the literal billion$ and billionandbillion$ of bucks they’ve already sacrificed on the revoltingly bloody alter of Venture Capital-dictated Wokeness, race-baiting revenge fantasies, and Lilith-affiliated dark vvitchcraft.
“Male and pale is stale.” That’s the inherently racist dismissive declaration spewed from the death throes rattle of Hollywood, babbled by untalented narcissistic zombies who’ll ride their broken communications pony all the way over the cliff if they must in order to maintain their undeserved grasp on American culture.
“Male and pale is stale” is the headline and centerpiece of a darkly enlightening exercise in investigative journalism on the indie film criticism website Film Threat, which came to light during the site’s exposé of a new race/creed/sexuality questionnaire being used by the WGA to silo individuals by their demographics, not their talent. The creepy questionnaire includes a bunch of other weird, unseemly and private questions that no organization (or nation! ) striving to achieve “color blindness” — which the USA was actually getting close to, before Obama got involved — would logically do.
Perhaps you’ve not heard of all this racist Hollywood bullshit. That’s because, as I’ve mentioned before, the top three industry trade rags — Variety, Hollywood Reporter and Deadline — are all owned by the same media conglomerate, Penske Media Corp(se). The lone outlier, The Wrap, is run by an iconoclastic crazy liberal white lady, Sharon Waxman, who’s no journalism savior (though admittedly a pretty good writer). All of them — all of them — put narrative and ideology over news reporting, and all of them are thin-skinned self-obsessed elitists angling for movie or TV gigs who deeply resent when somebody outside their echo chamber scoops them, so they circle the wagons with their usual vampiric sense of blood-oath omertà-onanism.
Nearly everything in Hollywood is rooted in a lie — Film is a lie to the eye, projecting movement through persistence of vision optical illusion; actors and actresses are professional liars, they make big money pretending to be somebody else — so of course “Male and pale is stale” is a Big Lie.
Failed ideologies need Big Lies to succeed. Let’s dismantle this one.
What’s the biggest streaming series, which means it’s also bigger than television, broadcast or cable television, which means it’s the most-watched piece of video entertainment in America? Suits: A decade-old USA-network series that went off the air in 2019, about two smart white male attorneys who have clever legal adventures.
What’s the most popular current streaming series? It’s between Kevin Costner’s soon-to-prematurely-end Yellowstone, centered around a wealthy white ranching family in soap opera-y Dallas-mode; or, more recently, Amazon's “If Sherlock Holmes Was A Tank” vigilante series, Reacher, the handsome/hulking/hunky quintessential white hero savior of the downtrodden. The top contemporary comedy on streaming is Ted Lasso, an aw-shucks white guy in a series that had a near-perfect first season, a meh second season and a third that was so tepid and predictable I ejected (but not a lot of others did, apparently).
Let’s head to cinema. What were the top dramatic and comedy films of the past year? Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the whitest white guy movie you’ve probably seen in years (unless you don’t think Jews are white). And bodacious blockbuster Barbie, starring Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling in his hilarious movie-hijacking powerhouse performance as Ken, the whitest guy in toy-dom.
On the music front, nobody tops the Taylor Swift cultural psyop machine, but that gal’s also white as it gets, so white she’s nearly transparent (which is why so many Conspiracy Theorists see right through her). All the way down the rabbit hole to her all-American big Pharma-friendly pincushion Super Bowl stooge of a BF. They’re George Soros-owned Establishment quislings, no question, but the occupying regime apparently ruefully realized after a couple years of psyop flops that whitebread traitors prove the most effective turncoats. ‘Swhy they’ve got Pedo Joe fronting for Obama, duh (though I predict Xiden croaks before November).
Meanwhile: If “Male and pale is stale” is a truism, we wouldn’t be seeing the ongoing catastrophic collapse of Disney Marvel, which attempted to replace its top-tier white guy heroes Iron Man and Captain America and Dr. Strange and Ant-Man and Thor, with dull Captain/Ms. Marvel and black Captain Falcon and genocidal Scarlet Letter VVitch and three generations of women Wasps and laughable pipsqueak Natalie Portman’s Lady Thor and, and, and God help us all, Chinese asset Chloe Zhao’s The (unwatchable) Eternals, a movie so diverse Disney Marvel cast a Pakistani guy as an Indian guy, insulting and infuriating the populations of both countries.
Nor would we see the mass fan exodus from Disney’s Star Wars, the biggest dumpster fire in entertainment history, which rat plantation overseer Kathleen Kennedy keeps tossing gasoline upon, as if her appetite for destruction is even more ardent than her passion for the fake, lame and gay. Disney Star Wars marginalized and mocked Luke Skywalker and fridged Han Solo, emasculated Obi-Wan Kenobi, and attempted to replace them for “modern audiences” with a procession of blocks o’ wood: Daisy Ridley’s insufferable two-dimensional plank girlboss Rey; Moses Ingram’s one-dimensional Empire brick girlboss Ree-Va; all the two-dimensional girlbosses who surpass the white male protagonists in the most recent seasons of The Mandalorian and Boba Fett. Not to mention the pinnacle of “The Force is Female” failure, Ahsoka. Until the next failure, anyway.
It’s not just popular iconic characters. There’s a new supporting role trope, the diversity-driven, androgynous-looking, tough-talking PoC law enforcement boss bitch, replacing hard-boiled alpha male character actors who used to steal scenes, like Roy Scheider in The French Connection, or Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive, or William Macy in Homicide, or any number of Sherlock Holmes stories with Dr. Watson.
Instead, we’ve got multiple-box checking casting that feels completely forced and inorganic and implausible, and it’s sinking projects left and right. I’ve recently watched Nic Cage’s almost good comic vampire flick Renfield; David Ayers’ ugly, dumb and mean-spirited revenge flick The Beekeeper; and the 4th season disaster that HBO/Max’s True Detective: Night Country has become. All were mind-virus infections with completely unlikeable, unconvincing and “get me outta here!” performances as alleged hard-boiled LEO types from lumpy, dumpy, frumpy androgynous-looking minority women with zero screen presence or gravitas. These bad and miscast DEI-approved actresses torpedo significant portions of any project’s credibility, if not the entire thing (Awkwafina should be arrested for what she did to Renfield, holy shit). That Rule-of-Three are just the ones top o’ mind; I’ve seen it dozens of times in the past couple years.
But truth be told, it’s not the casting or acting so much as the talent (or, more precisely, the lack of it) behind the camera or plunking away at the computer keys. Diversity hires who can’t write or can’t direct but got gigs because they ticked a box or tickled Oprah the right way. The diversity infection that’s destroyed publishing and is destroying Hollywood and is probably far far worse in government than any of us can even comprehend — we’re literally ruled by people who hate America, it’s bad, get your head around it or Fools Die — is even more of a creative problem than a performative one.
On my way out, I’ll conclude by saying that I didn’t particularly want to write about this, but the low I.Q. diversity dunces in Hollywood and their media maniac minions forced my hand. The one-two gut-punch shit-shoveling of seeing The Beekeeper and True Detective this past weekend (not to mention Argylle, but that sucked for a different reason) really pointed up how much this Big Lie that “diversity is our strength” is killing nearly everything. Not to mention stealing decent roles away from talented actors for cringe-machine amateurs like the abominable Awkwafina and the bottomless talentless pit that is Emmy Raver-Lampman (who gives one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen as a FBI agent in The Beekeeper; she kills that movie, Murder One).
It’s such a drag, because I’ve forever judged people on their work and accomplishments, regardless of race or creed or gender. I’ve long put non-white actors and actresses and their roles on pedestals, from Richard Roundtree’s badass P.I. Shaft (in that four-star first movie, at least) to Clarke Peters’ thoughtful police detective on The Wire to Larry Fishburne in pretty much anything he’s done. I’ve gone out of my way to track down the films of John Woo and Ang Lee, not because I pursue diversity, but because I like to track genius auteurs; and I believe after watching at least 50 of his films, Jackie Chan is unique and likely the biggest Movie Star in film history. I’m sad the openly gay Zachary Quinto did not become the big, All-American Movie Star he deserves to be because he was self-assured enough to be open about his sexuality. Halle Berry, Gabrielle Union, Megalyn Echikunwoke; they all get a chef’s kiss from me because I’m sure they’d never let me apply a real one.
I honestly could not care less about your race or your faith or who you choose to fuck. Your job is to entertain me or perhaps make me think, but I can guarantee you that if you don’t accomplish the first, it’s all but a sure thing you’ll fail at the second.
Because The Thing of It Is… None of those diverse talents I named above (and hundreds, thousands more) were people who caught my attention because of their diversity. They made me sit up and take notice because of their excellence. When all things are equal, if the casting director or HR puppet-master (usually female in both cases, let’s note) wants to make the choice leaning in diversity’s direction, I’ve got no qualms about that. But that’s clearly not happening, because so much of what we see is just stupid, hackneyed, immature, fundamentally flawed amateur-level garbage. Hollywood product has never been worse. Get that through your head: It’s. Never. Been. Worse.
The reason for this is racism passed off as diversity. It’s fatal. “Male and pale is stale” is a nail tearing through the sails of all that’s fair. None of us can stand back and allow this to go on. We must be anti-racist. If not for ourselves, then to save popular culture. It’s a selfless endeavor, full of slings and arrows hurled by cowards, shills, bots and enemies of the state, but somebody’s got to do it. Somebody’s got to be anti-racist enough to save this country from its asshole army of low I.Q. racists.
While I’m insulting the legion of stupid racist people, let’s double down to remind them that their racist worldview means they probably don’t know squat about some of the greatest minds in civilization’s history, who warned us repeatedly that a focus on diversity over excellence is a cancer fatal to any society. Prioritizing diversity over merit is a weakness, an Achilles heel, a fatal flaw, a poison injected into the body politick as dangerous as the failed and increasingly fatal mRNA chemical jab that I hope you didn’t get.
Before we go backwards, we’ll stick in the 21st century, because CurrenThing racist morons don’t do history well but they do love their corporate media sources. As The New York Times noted as recently as 2007, declining civic engagement can be traced to the emphasis on diversity. A study of 30,000 Americans discovered that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer. There’s less charitable work and donations. The more diverse a community, the less trust there is; about half as much. As the Times pointed out: “[V]irtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.”
But don’t rely on 21st Century observations, racist morons! Let’s go back, way, way, way back, nearly 2,500 years back to the genius philosopher Aristotle, the guy who laid the groundwork for modern science (not “modern audiences” science!).
The legendary wise man and deep thinker Aristotle observed that “diversity brings tyranny,” and that illegitimate leaders will always give themselves away as tyrants by choosing “diverse foreigners” over the citizenry:
“It is a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition. It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence. The tyrant claims a monopoly of such qualities for himself; he feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity, or acts with independence, is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny; he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority.”
Another great philosopher, even further back than Aristotle, Plato, warned that tyrants import foreigners as replacements for non-compliant patriots and nationalists: “These are the new citizens whom he has called into existence, more drones, of every sort and from every land, who admire him and are his companions, while the truly good hate and avoid him."
If you’re a racist, your knee-jerk reaction will probably be to dismiss two of the greatest philosophers in history cuz they’re white guys, the same way the diversity-obsessed psychopaths running education have dissed William Shakespeare, Samuel Clemens and Ernest Hemingway, or Hollywood’s tossed one of its greatest living screenwriters John Milius overboard. But don’t kid yourself: You’re a racist.
The racism innate in this religious fervor for diversity at all costs, including sanity, profit and societal good-will, is killing the United States of America and it’s by design. You might not be a student of history because they’ve gutted the school system (also by design), but the malevolent manipulators of society know history far too well and they know it repeats. The rest of you, who don’t know history, are the ones doomed to repeat it.
Still, as a guy who also knows history, it’s immeasurably frustrating to see such consecrated willful blindness. So many will not believe their eyes and all the mounting evidence around them, but instead bleat out brainwashed talking points ram-rodded repetitively into their synapses by a globalist government that all too demonstrably wants them dead.
To paraphrase another once-elevated-now-vilified white novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the death of the American Ideal through the perversion of real diversity of thought and worldview, degraded into an obsession over superficial diversity like race and religion, at first came “gradually.” We now seem to be accelerating into the “suddenly” portion, where everything, everywhere, falls apart, and all at once. Don’t ever try to tell me you haven’t been warned when the real chaos and violence hits. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
I got lost in the links - meant this for here:-)
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So good; apt - you deserve millions more readers!
This is outstanding.