Is hollywood racist? am i irrational?

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The media just seems completely racist to me. It's sickening. There are so many things but I'm going to focus on just two.

Hollywood hates interracial couples. Will Smith, the actor that proved a black man could make a block buster, falls under this. The two movies that do show Smith in relationship with a white woman, he produced himself. Is that really what it takes? The audience loves his movies. The audience has no problem with the main character being black or an interracial couple. But Hollywood thinks the audience hates this stuff so it doesn't want to show it.

Whitewashing. This is a common one and it seems like the only company that's ever reverse-whitewashed is Marvel. I'll just focus on one movie, The Hunger Games. The movie so progressive proving that men would watch a movie with a female lead, as long as she's white. The Hunger Games had a low budget so the directors didn't merely pick a starlet, there were auditions for the main character Katniss. A character described in the book to have straight dark hair and olive skin. When the auditions were advertised the studio wrote that they were only looking for Caucasian actresses. This goes beyond simply picking the white actress over the olive one. They might as well have written "Colored need not apply"

Part of the reason why this pisses me off so much is because the people of the entertainment industry always call themselves liberal and progressive. They paint themselves as these wonderful understanding guys. They're not bible thumpers or trailer trash they're the good ones. It's not true at all. They're just a bunch of racists with too much power.

They're racist 25
They're just playing it safe 19
There's no racism 13
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  • dappled
    11 years ago | pl

    The problem might not be so much that Hollywood is racist, but that the public is. Why would you cast an interracial couple when you know it'll reduce revenue?

    I'll guarantee there's a percentage of people who would avoid a film on such stupid grounds. The need to make money is incompatible with fairness, quality, or virtually anything that isn't about money-making. It's why we have bad films and bad food and bad music.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      This.

      George Lucas himself stated that he had to fight for Hollywood to allow him to make a movie to cast an all black cast. He said that all black movies don't do very well here, let alone internationally.

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    • VioletTrees
      11 years ago

      Eh, a lot of it is racist producers, actually. There's a lot of superstition in Hollywood. If you know of market research that backs up the idea that people won't watch shows with interracial couples, I'm open to see it, but I think you're giving them way too much credit about their knowledge of the market.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      But it doesn't reduce revenue! And Will Smith proved all of their racist theories wrong like 10 times!

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        It would be impossible to tell for sure unless the film was made in two parallel realities and then revenue compared. But we don't have that so I'll put forward two questions:

        1, Do you believe that of the billion people who may see a film, every single one of them is entirely tolerant? Bear in mind the chances of winning the lottery are 14 million to one, and you're looking at something 70 times more unlikely than this (if it was a random thing).

        2, Given that some of a film's audience might not be entirely tolerant do you think every single of them might say, "I hate interracial relationships but I'm not going to let that affect my choices in any way and I'll enjoy entertainment with interracial relationships as much as anything else even though I hate them".

        If the answer to the above questions is "No", and let's face it, it has to be, and if even one person swerves a film, revenue has been reduced.

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      ^This

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  • Lynxikat
    11 years ago

    God, I hate it when people pull the race card... I swear to God, I fucking hate the race card...

    Hollywood is not racist.

    They are just playing it safe.

    If Hollywood was racist, Will Smith would not have even been able to be in huge blockbuster hits.

    I bet next you're gonna say that Hollywood is racist because Viola Davis didn't win her Oscar for Best Actress this year.

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    Hollywood is racist because it produces a product for people a certain percentage of whom are racist (subconsciously or otherwise). If the people consuming the product (i.e. the people who are watching its films) were entirely not racist Hollywood wouldn't need to be.

    Even if only 1% of people a film is targeted at would avoid the film if it had something they found objectionable, that could be a revenue loss of many thousands, even millions, of dollars. In reality, the number is probably much higher than 1%. Hollywood has to mirror its audience if it wants to maximize revenue.

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  • FocoUS
    11 years ago

    As a person working to be in the entertainment industry I have to say you're right. Entertainment is racist, sexist, and homophobic. It's a serious issue and hopefully it will be settled.

    It's also called Racebending.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Hollywood is incredibly racist against WHITES. I shouldn't need to explain why.

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  • handsignals
    9 years ago

    Maybe they should remake the same movies with different couples.

    eg. 'Sleepless in Seattle' Staring Terry Crews and Mellisa McArthy, Or WeeMan and Queen La Tffa.

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  • Jonysbachontrak
    10 years ago

    I completely agree with you.

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  • FreDraken
    11 years ago

    This would probably be a good time to remind everyone that Hollywood is not 'run by Jews.'
    Also that Canadians do not dominate hockey and blacks don't dominate basketball. Those are just identity group stereotypes which peg you as ignorant if you put any credence in them.
    Now I have to go have a word with my English cook and my German nanny.
    Well, it's bangers and mash for the fourth time this week, and the kids better like it or the nanny will lock them in the cellar again.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      .....Yes, Jews DO control the media. Do your research.

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  • jitterbug66
    11 years ago

    Hollywood is racist?
    I guess you should say that the Westboro Baptist Church is tolerant too.

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