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In Reply to: The definition of what's a 'racist' comment has certainly expanded posted by Feanor on March 17, 2023 at 05:13:58:
Feanor - thanks for the excellent thoughtful post.
Hollywood like Starbucks is a business. A large part of their sales comes down to public perception and they don't want to get cancelled. Starbucks doesn't care at all about plastic or paper straws - they use paper straws to be "seen as green" hoping not to lose their liberal customers.
I could be wrong but I suspect Starbucks mostly caters to Democrats and Liberals as they tend to be located in cities and even in red states - the major cities vote liberal/democrat. So Starbucks tends to cater to their left-wing base of customers. (Albeit Union Busting has taken some of their base away).
With Hollywood and the BBC and probably the CBC and the arts in general - you mostly have liberal types entering those professions, the Theater and the Arts.
The reality is that in the theatre world, people are exposed to more racially diverse people and certainly more exposed to members of the LGTBQ+ - people who don't make it in the arts often become agents or perhaps go into directing or producing or executive roles. They then hire their friends when they can.
So I think what you see is this "subset of the population" put on TV. So you watch a TV show and the representation is skewed to the population of the "arts" world and not the representation of the population of the country.
Ideally, people would be colour-blind and we would just hire people based on ability but it doesn't happen. Hiring managers have to consider how that person will work within the office/group. They may hire a slightly less skilled person who is easy to get along with than the superior intellectual candidate who is a douche.
When I applied for the teaching job here in Hong Kong I had to write a 20-minute timed essay. Then had a 20-minute interview with two Hong Kong Principals for Elementary School and High School (my training is mainly in Elementary school). My friend who has more experience and taught in BC for several years failed the interview.
Why? Because they would ask him a question - he'd answer and then they would press him on it and he would push back that he already answered the question or that his answer was correct.
Example: "How do you know when a child has understood the reading text?" Answer: Ask the students reading comprehension questions to ensure they know the characters, plot, theme etc.
"But how do you really know?"
Answer: have the students make a comic strip of the story they just read to see how much the student can remember from the text.
"But how do you really know?"
My friend would get irritated by this - I know him. Me? I keep trying to answer this question in a different way or I would simply say that I am not sure how to answer that question and admit I don't have all the answers and would hope to learn from my fellow colleagues. That is what they wanted I suspect - teachers work as a team and they don't want the foreigner to come in and tell them what they should be doing. 80 people were interviewed across Canada. They hired 11. I was one of them.
To me, they most want the people they figure won't be a "problem" and not necessarily the "best" candidate. LOL - cause it sure ain't me - I am an English teacher with pretty atrocious grammar and spelling. But that doesn't matter - there are spell checks and grammar checks - but not so much "easy to get along with amiable" checks.
Perhaps in Hollywood, they feel if people see more minorities and homosexuals on their tv screens audiences will be more exposed to them and thus less fearful of them. Fear is often a big driver of racism.
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