Throw Another Holocaust Movie on the Barby.

 Is this for real? They are arguing Jews are underrepresented in Hollywood? They built they town, of course they have strong representation still today.  No "minority designation" needed, please.

Jewish Group Assails Film Academy’s Diversity Efforts

An open letter signed by notable actors and producers criticized the organization for not including Jews as an underrepresented group as part of a new initiative.

Why not just have everyone compete as humans, and stop with all this identity politicking that picks underrepresented victims groups for special advantages over other competitors, in getting prizes or awards?  Just compete as people.

In 2020, the academy issued a set of standards as part of its diversity initiative that recognized a number of identities as “underrepresented,” including women, L.G.B.T.Q. people, an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or those with cognitive or physical disabilities.

Religion is not one of the categories considered.

These initiatives will become part of the standards required for a film to compete in the best picture category beginning this year. For a film to be eligible, at least one of the lead actors or a significant supporting actor must be from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. The academy has said that includes actors who are Asian, Hispanic, Black, Indigenous, Native American, Middle Eastern, North African, native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.

“An inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism,” said the letter, which was organized by the Hollywood Bureau of the group Jew in the City. “It erases Jewish peoplehood and perpetuates myths of Jewish whiteness, power, and that racism against Jews is not a major issue or that it’s a thing of the past.”

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I think it is starting to sink in:  the Holocaust victims are mostly dead and gone now and most people simply don't see the Jews through any special "victim" lens that would require reparations to be paid them today in identity politicking.  Muslims and Arabs, sure. Blacks, ok.  But white Jews... c'mon! Stop this silliness competing to be the Worlds'BiggestVictim?*

According to Allison Josephs, the founder and executive director of Jew in the City, the letter has been in the works since the summer, months before the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, as the new academy standards were being discussed.

“It feels like a very big mistake to not recognize that we are maybe the most persecuted group throughout all time,” she said in an interview.

The academy declined to comment.

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* "Why's everybody always picking on me?"