Would they make him wear orange hair? Who cares what people look like if you are filming fiction. If you are filming history, it ought to be as historically accurate as it can be. My town (Stratford) had a Shakespeare theater that used to be very popular. Big grounds for picknicking on the river and generally good productions by travelling companies. But, we went to see King Lear and the actors were all dressed in empire era costumes. The image was so wrong, I couldn't enjoy the performance. I kept waiting for Neapolitan to appear.How about Trump played by Will Smith? Would that be ok?
An ethics and health policy expert from the University of Pennsylvania says officials should consider delaying the coronavirus vaccine for aging white populations to racially “level the playing field.”
Harald Schmidt made the comments in a recent piece by The New York Times exploring the various trade-offs foisted upon society by the contagion.
“Older populations are whiter,” Mr. Schmidt told the newspaper. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
Just in the last week in the areas of medicine, education, and journalism, well-intentioned institutional racists have insisted — as is increasingly their habit — that skin color is and must be the defining element of our public policies.
Let's give the vaccine to men only at first then, since men don't live as long as women. Same logic.“Older populations are whiter,” Mr. Schmidt told the newspaper. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer."
It's because they are not well read.How can people be so stupid?
A different take. The media in the US is giving the gullible public fake news. What they are reading is propaganda.It's because they are not well read.
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That's the way identity politics works. Listing to the talking heads discus Biden's cabinet picks is hysterical. Not a word about experience or competence or affinity for the job. Only immutable characteristics count. We need a black person for this, a Hispanic for that, someone who identifies as a duck for that, etc. Wait! We don't have any Native Americans. We can trade a lesbian and an Asian out to get a better skin tone balance. Pretty soon we're going to have a category for straight or curly hair.They're on the lookout now for a red indian who can count and tell the truth.
And it's diversity in immutable characteristics only. NEVER diversity of thought. God forbid we intersperse an occasional rational thought.quest for "diversity"