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Dreyfus On Diversity · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, wasn't Richard Dreyfuss
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  a leftist? Did something change? Well, let's ask our American mama,
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  Mama, and joining us now our American mama, Terry Netteville. Richard Dreyfuss.
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  I've loved him as an actor for a long time. Did you ever
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  see the movie with him and Holly Hunter? Always my favorite? That song
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  Smoke Gets in your Eyes? Oh so good stuff? All right, so
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  good. But I've always thought of Richard Dreyfuss as at least a liberal,
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  if not leftist, in a lot of his pools. Guy, I don't
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  think you liked Roma Reagan. I don't think you liked any of the Bushes.
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  Don't think he likes Trump. And yet what he said in this interview
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  with I believe it was with the Hollywood Reporter, but he was asked about
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  these inclusion standards. So the Motion Academy of Motion Pictures said, now,
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  if you want to get an Oscar, you have to have a certain number
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  of minorities or gay people in your movies, or gay characters in your movies.
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  In order to get the Oscar, you have to have these criteria.
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  These inclusion standards. Otherwise we're not even going to nominate you for an oscar.
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  And Richard Dreyfuss was asked about those and he said, okay, clearly
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  he said, they made me vomit. That's how they made me vomit graphic.
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  Yeah, I think I think it. But when I think about him,
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  I kind of put him in the category with Bill Maher, like these
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  are liberals, and they stand by their liberal convictions, but they also stand
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  for common sense. They stand for what's right and when it comes to sort
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  of thing. And he has made the point that he said, this is
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  an art form, right, It's also a form of commerce and it makes
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  money, but it's an art and no one should be telling me as an
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  artist that I have to give into the latest most current idea of what more
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  morality is. And he said it feels so patronized, like they're tweeting them
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  like children. Right, he's not for it. And I find that really
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  really interesting. Again, as you were saying, like Bill Maher, these
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  are people who are indeed left of absolutely, and yet Dreyfus went on in
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  the interview and he said, look are you telling me that as a white
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  man, I can't play a black character that we have to have racial I'm
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  an actor, yes, I'm an artist. Why can't I play a black
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  character? It makes me think about Scarlett. When is her last name,
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  Scarlett? The ones made to the snl oh Scarlett Johansson. Yes, yeah,
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  when she was up for some role maybe a trans person or something,
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  and she pulled out of it because of the backlash that they are like,
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  this should go to a transgender Like, she's an artist, she acts,
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  That's what they're all doing. Do you think that you know these people that
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  are getting up there acting, you know, as aliens, that you should
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  really get aliens from them out of space. I mean, it's so ridiculous.
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  They've gone so far. There's a movie coming out about Cleopatra. Yes,
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  I saw, and they've got a black woman playing the role of Cleopatra.
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  Yeah, okay, so it's now. Cleopatra was not black. She
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  was closer to being Greek in Um in history, so Mediterranean. In ancient
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  Egypt, um it wasn't like sub Saharan African ethnicity. Right, Egypt today
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  is more Eric Mick than it is South sub Saharan African ethnicity. Yes,
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  it's on the continent of Africa, but it was more of a Mediterranean culture.
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  So Cleopatra was more Mediterranean than she was black, right, And yet
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  we've got a black actress playing it, and the left is like, this
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  is how it should be. We're praising for the black actress to play the
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  role of a non black character, but if anyone who's not black or to
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  try and play the role of a black character, there would be an absolute
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  backlash. You know. It's so funny because I saw I cannot remember what
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  podcast as this was on that I was watching, but they had this famous
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  Greek actor and I cannot think of his name, but anyway, he said,
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  you are erasing our people. Yeah, you're racing our people. She
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  was ours. So if you're going to go that far, then maybe come
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  look at our nation, he said. But he was talking about I think
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  the people that were questioning him on the panel said something about, um,
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  the one that did it in America, the famous one with the diamond,
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  Liz Taylor. Yeah, and he said, yeah, he said, but
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  he said, we recognize, we were proud of her. This was before
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  all of this. This is such a different time and place in space in
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  this universe. We've never been here before. It's been upside down turned inside
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  out. And yet with this particularly, what a light it is shining on
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  how hypocritical this is. Yea, it is so hypocritical. And it's only
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  because if the left says it's okay, it's okay. If the left set
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  deems it not okay for our white person to be cleopacter, then it's not
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  okay. In fact, we should ban the movie with Liz Taylor. We
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  should ban the books, you know, all the books from Times from one
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  hundred years ago because they weren't woke. And now they'll want to ban Richard
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  Dreyfuss. Yeah, even though it sounds like you don't care though, well,
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  yeah, that may be the case. And he's at the age where
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  and I think this is another point. A lot of the older liberals who
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  have the money, they have the means to be able to speak out and
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  to use their voice however they want. Yeah, they're saying this is ridiculous.
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  Let's come on, guys, we need to rein this in. It's
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  the younger ones who are trying to get there, who are either too afraid
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  to speak because they don't want to be canceled before they're even out there,
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  or worse. They've bought into the lot. Yes, they've bought into the
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  lot. That is actually worse. If you like to ask our American Mama
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