By “they,” Dreyfuss meant new rules the Academy is implementing for 2024 saying moviesunless their casts and crews meet numerical quotas for “under-represented groups.”
Expanding that theme, Dreyfuss said, “I don’t think that there is a minority or a majority in this country that has to be catered to like that.” And: “Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a black man? Is someone else being told that if they’re not Jewish, they shouldn’t play the merchant of Venice? Are we crazy? Do we not know that art is art?”
Anyway, Dreyfuss blasting the Academy comes just weeks after legendary basketball coach Phil Jackson similarlyfor its obsessively race-based politics. This is the same Jackson who spent the 1970s and 1980s, on his own time, supporting Democratic causes and candidates. We can hope that Dreyfuss and Jackson represent a broader awakening of old-line political"progressives" who recognize a distinction between liberal policy views and the radical rot being pushed by today’s media-entertainment “elites.” Conservatives may not like the former, but at least they are within the American, pluralistic, small"r" republican tradition.
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