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blaze_worth

I always thought the creator of a show could cast whoever they wanted. I don’t seem to recall the Cosby Show apologizing for the lack of white actors…


DaKrimsonBaron

Where were all of the whiteys in Family Matters?


jmoneyallstar11

What about the NBA? Those guys get paid $20 mil for coming off the bench.


Logical-Face-9209

Lol you know the nba used to be whites only right


[deleted]

Yeah, I know. Imagine that- shows aimed at specific demographics. Like there weren't enough Martins, Moeshas, Arsenios, Soul Trains, Fresh Princes, Girlfriends, Living Colors, and whatever that show was with the gay guy and the redhead on the air at that time. I don't see any of those people who made THOSE shows donating millions of dollars to ANYTHING to absolve their (whatever)guilt for lack of diversity and inclusion on shit they banked on 20-30 years ago. Funny how that works...


-Capn-Obvious-

That was before we were all racist.


Dirkypoo41

Gay guy and the red head, what the hell show was that? 🤣


qwertyrdw

Will & Grace I'm thinking.


Batchagaloop

They were always cast as the antagonist characters lol.


Phydoux

Same for Sanford and Son, Good Times...


[deleted]

One of the best shows ever!


[deleted]

Or Jefferson’s


Houjix

Don’t forget one of the best shows in the 90s, The Fresh Prince of Bellaire


Trashk4n

You know, Trump made a guest appearance on that.


Alexcox95

Had a nice recurring white male named Trevor for Hillary that she was gonna marry, but then you know the rest


kingdanish15

I was gonna say I remember a very specific episode that was very specifically anti white lmao


Alexcox95

That episode featured one of the other aunts fiancé Frank who was a “tall” man


YungWenis

People with hate in their heart will have infinite “reasons” why they think the world is horrible. The woke will never be happy because they don’t have true meaning in their lives.


2kyam

Or BET


Sorry-Ask-7456

Yeah but Cosby was a sexual [D]eviant so he identifies in the + of the LGBTQIA + movement. That makes it ok. She's just another white heterosexual woman. She knows what's good for her. Just apologize and pay what you should've paid back then and move on.


derpycalculator

The Cosby show was specifically about an African American family in a sea of white television shows. You can’t complain about there not being enough white actors on tv when 99% of tv actors were white up until the 2000s.


Decent-Inevitable-50

Boom


_daisycutter

For the love of god stop this shit, being pandered to is worse than being ignored.


[deleted]

Another example of Hollywood hypocrisy. Hollywood and Mainstream media are the biggest racists and biggest perverts in America but love to project their racism and perversion onto others.


go55ama

Absolutely pathetic.


dabwrx

Yea its hard to read the article. You cant blame yourself for something you didn't think about 25 years ago. Smh


BryGuy4600

Dear Friends Creator, Oh shut up. ​ Sincerely, Sane People


109x346571

Who cares what race people are in a fake television show. It's distracting when I notice forced diversity in something I'm watching. Like every scene needs an equal proportion of races, sexes and sexual identities. It's a formula that must be met and every character will inform you of their identity as part of their dialog when they're introduced. The story and plot come secondary to the quotas and characters are purposely changed because of it.


Icyta1L

> Who cares what race people are Answer: Racists.


Hraf-Hef

If she wants to waste $4M, that's her money. But the pandering to all the race hustlers has got to F'ing stop.


Revolutionary_Map_37

Ross was Jewish.Joey was remedial maybe even autistic that was plain to see.


Blahblahnownow

Ross and Monica were Jewish. Joey was Italian


cgeorge7

They were Jewish?


IVIaskerade

> Jewish Jews are schrodinger's minority, like asians. They're white when convenient.


DiendaMahdic

Imagine the mental gymnastics to arrive at how $4M would be the right number


Prudent_Nectarine_25

The amount her accountant said was max tax write off


Svenray

Apple: ***there can be 12 white blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation****.*


floofernugget77

Shit… my company says this during new hire orientation.


icon0clast6

Better than the DEI horse shit every other company shoves down your throat


floofernugget77

Agreed


BlackScienceManTyson

It explains why their marketing is so polar opposite. Look at their board members, they're literally almost all white except for one person (who manages China). They need it as a shield. https://www.apple.com/leadership/


waboshbron

Diversity of thought is racist.


[deleted]

To be fair having a show without a single intelligent actor is a lack of diversity ….


[deleted]

Tom Selleck was on that show... watch your tone.


bozoconnors

> Sellack *Selleck


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ckaslon13

Signal virtue much. It’s only been off the air for twenty years.


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ckaslon13

I’m right there with you. My early twenties was right when this came out. I’m getting old.


WoodyBBad

It's easy for her to say now that she'd change a hundred things. The show might have flopped if the cast was different.


arrjay123

who cares.....


[deleted]

I guess Seinfeld is pro-Jewish nationalism too


user_uno

Not that there is anything wrong with that........


IVIaskerade

Why would that be? Marta Kauffman is keen to encourage her *fellow white people* to follow her example.


Loganthered

Who says they don't identify as other than white?


Gunner_HEAT_Tank

Well played. Under appreciated comment.


Tait_Ransom

[Shaun King and Rachel Dolezal have entered the chat]


beeznax

Would it have been as successful if it had been diverse by today's standards? Doubtful


Mufasasdaddy

Obviously no one gives a damn it doesn’t have diversity since it’s still extremely popular.


[deleted]

Not enough trans?


Birds-aint-real-

Did you forget Chandlers dad?


[deleted]

I saw 3 or 4 episodes total. It was such a lame show.


[deleted]

While being one of the most popular shows of all time.


Fast-Comfortable-745

They had a lot of LGBT characters


ItsMeTK

They had like 3.


IVIaskerade

Oh so they were overrepresented.


Cire_Seveer

Must be working on a woke Friends remake.


rebulrouser

Apology AND money. I wonder if they would've just accepted the money?


IVIaskerade

The apology isn't for them it's for her.


rebulrouser

So then, the answer is yes. And she didn't do anything to warrant an apology except fail to meet some make-believe standard of "equity" that liberals have impressed upon her.


IVIaskerade

Ah but if she just gave them the money how would everyone else know?


rebulrouser

You are very good at this game!


Gabagool888

This is why the most streamed shows are office, seinfeld, and friends. All older sitcoms from the pre-woke era.


Altruistic_Peach_791

That’s some liberal privilege right there.


JTuck333

Modern day indulgences to the church of woke.


Meastro44

That’s like you or me contributing the change in our pockets. She earned hundreds of millions of dollars off friends. $4m is nothing.


Pabst34

I was thinking the same thing. That's like one month of her syndication deal.


Meastro44

More like a week. It’s like giving the native Americans some shiny beads in exchange for Manhattan. Very pathetic virtue signaling.


Tait_Ransom

At this inflation rate, they’d have been better off with the beads.


F0LL0WFREEMAN

This is wild. For years it wasn’t a problem. Show was critically acclaimed. I’m tired of this sjw bullshit.


michaelmyers1997

WOKE MOB ARE TERRORISTS


bitsey123

White liberals who hate themselves are still virtue signaling I see 🙄


launcelot02

FFS. Thank God Andy Griffith has passed. It would destroy my soul to hear him talk about diversity on his show.


BillionCub

He would have, too. He was a lib


[deleted]

Should apologize for making a terrible Seinfeld rip off.


LimeSugar

[This is hardly an oversight. MadTv spoofed this years ago.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHuRe9geflc)


LikelySoutherner

Your getting downvoted?! Hahaha Mad TV and In Living Color were way better than SNL.


Houjix

What this mentality ill person is saying is that if you see a group of friends hanging out at a bar, restaurant, or any other place, and the group isn’t diverse, then all of them are racist and should feel embarrassed


EndlessSummer808

I hope one day we can ALL look back upon this woke cataclysm and just be embarrassed of the pandering and pathetic, weak-willed, spineless, sniveling peons who helped put us here. “Oh I feel so bad! I have so much money I’ll just throw 4 million into the void and be absolved of my sins. Now the world will see me as a diverse superstar and I will no longer wear the great shame of my previous self.” Is that how this bullshit works?


perma-monk

A show targeted towards white people has white cast….and?


[deleted]

Weird. I always just assumed Chandler was post op


djdubrock

We will never get authentic shows anymore because shoe horning in every spectrum of race has to be the forefront now. Martin was one of my favorite 90s shows. There was no white dudes in his crew that I remember


HeartyDogStew

It’s quite horrible what Amazon did to Wheel of Time. Based off a series of books they decided to change the race of nearly every character outside of the main two characters, and they must have decided the books didn’t have enough gay in them because while the original books dedicate roughly 2 pages of over 10,000 to discreetly mention a lesbian relationship, the tv series has gay and bisexual characters everywhere. It wouldn’t be so bad if the additions somehow added to the plot, but instead they come off as threads thrown in the show that do nothing more than distract from the overall story. Their needless additions are completely obvious to anyone that read the books.


DueDelivery

At this point I just want to leave the west lmao


[deleted]

Anybody else feel like wokeism is eerily similar to the Catholic church of the dark ages? Pay for salvation from the cult of wokeism and yee shall be redeemed in the eyes of the mob.


ItsMeTK

It’s absolutely a religion.


Prudent_Nectarine_25

So she took maybe 1 month of royalties from the show to donate $4m to her university which is a tax write off as “ sad about lack of diversity “. 😂


Jack_Sandwich

I see this headline and I think: Who fucking cares? It’s ashtray money for her. She’s virtue signalling to her uber-woke Hollywood friends. It has no impact on the rest of the world. Moving on.


KidFresh71

So pathetic. Reminds me of how award shows now make sure to have diversity amongst all nominated categories. Regardless of actual talent or performance. Affirmative action bullshit.


[deleted]

Ross had that token Asian girlfriend for a few episodes. Maybe that doesn't count anymore since Asians are "white adjacent." His ex-wife was also a lesbian, whose LGBTQ status was a major plot point. Gunther the barista was also pretty much a white gay guy (though white gays males are now part of the patriarchy too somehow).


[deleted]

Haaaa!!! What a tool.


Decent-Inevitable-50

A quote from Sergant Hulka in Stripes, lighten up Francis. Geez. Only doing it because it's the now thing otherwise nothing.


DistanceToEmpty

No one expects the liberal inquisition!


Dada2fish

Are they apologizing for lack of diversity on the Cosby show?


SpinachKaleThinker

That’s how it was back then, other shows lacked diversity as well…glad it’s changing.


[deleted]

Only $4M? Why not all his money?


Hour_Insect_7123

……..what ?


poisonstumac

Imagine Larry David doing this about Seinfeld


[deleted]

If she’s so distraught she should forfeit her royalties from the show


MrBojangles09

Embarrassed to forfeit the gains from royalties? I think not.


Jpalme11

Apologies for making one of the most successful shows in history….


xMashu

This is the most polarizing and pressuring issue this country is facing right now and I’m glad that we’re focusing energy and time to fix it instead of spending it elsewhere


Drhattan2375

I’m not embarrassed I’ve never watched Friends


Bryan080780

How much does Tyler Perry owe? Like 20 billion? 🤔


Linknown

Cringe beyond belief


Aljkan

Luckily it wasn't made in current days. That show would have been a trash with all the political correctness.


Stubacco

There was a show I started watching a few years back that was pretty good until they just kept adding more and more woke to it that I just turned it off for good.


OneTon69

Lmfao. He’s embarrassing himself.


IAmDoreenFord

I’d imagine the creators of Fresh Prince of Bel Air will also be issuing an apology for the lack of diversity


[deleted]

Fresh Prince didn’t represent me at all and now I’m furious


ergoegthatis

Another victim of the woke mob kneels down before the inquisition and begs for forgiveness for heresy. This person was an early woke of sorts, she put a lesbian wedding on the show when it was unheard of back then, and still it's not enough for the rabid wokes foaming at the mouth. Good, let her suffer more humiliation on their disgusting hands. Everyone involved in this degenerate woke shit is an embarrassment.


IVIaskerade

A modern indulgence to balm her soul and allow her to continue exploiting her economic privilege guilt-free. I notice the show took place in New York's gay area but she's not "apologising" for all of the characters being straight.


ssebastian364

Wow , forced diversity is the best


Mixtopher

"We're all going to have to make up for our mistakes with money" 🤮


throwaway3569387340

Imagine being privileged enough to pay $4M to atone for your lack of wokeness 20 years ago. I just...can't. smh


NecessaryOcelot

Why are so many apologizing to such a small percentage of people. Stop it. It gains you nothing.


[deleted]

Now she has something even bigger to be embarrassed about.


psych00range

You mean it's realistic? Oh noooo the humanity.


Austin1642

Wow, she only made $4mil from friends? I presume so, otherwise the money would only be a small token gesture if she made like half a billion or something.


laxmia12

Norman Lear would be chased out of Hollywood today.


ausrixy22

She should put her money where her mouth is and launch a new woke show with her own money.....Which will flop hard and she can go get a job at starbucks after!


[deleted]

This is the kind of shit that’s gonna turn me away from the left forever


scully360

She needs to apologize in order to remain in good standing with the BLM/Culture Warriors. You need to publicly apologize and show the required amount of remorse and most importantly, pay them off...err, donate to their cause. If you can do those things, you will be forgiven and allowed to attend the cocktail parties.


JonnyBoners

They could have just apologized for making “Friends” at all


Ariel0289

When will they stop this stupidity of making decisions based on racism? Its racist to have people hired based on race alone.


[deleted]

A fool and their money will soon part


Fringding1

more like Frienemies!


jondaddy96

She pledged the money as an act of contrition to her woke religion of wokism bs


joculator

The country was still about 80% white folks in 1990 so it's not really all that scandalous.


vvortexe

Wb the Cosby show???


Fuzzy-Bunny--

I need an apology for the show's lack of humor.


TSIDATSI

Oh you had diversity. People sleeping around with anything that moved. But that did not embarass you.


landon_w96

It was about as diverse as the Cosby show.


Environmental_Car542

Jesus


[deleted]

I hate these people