Deadly Diversity

[BjornP]

Also a telling example of excess labour union power there in my view.

Excess power over who, though? If the dead stunt double was unionized, it seems to show that Hollywood unions for stunt people aren't taking their responsibilities to its members very seriously.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Also a telling example of excess labour union power there in my view.

Excess power over who, though? If the dead stunt double was unionized, it seems to show that Hollywood unions for stunt people aren't taking their responsibilities to its members very seriously.

Goddammit Bjorn, can't you just let them have one narrative?

[BjornP]

Uhmmm...what? What narrative you talking about, GCF?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Uhmmm...what? What narrative you talking about, GCF?

The narrative of unions murdering a woman because they forced diversity down the filmmakers throats. Come on man. It's all they have.

[Penner]

Political correctness is starting to cost lives.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/deadpool ... _medium=s1

As Canada’s WorkSafeBC continues to investigate the death of Joi “SJ” Harris, a stuntwoman who was killed in a motorcycle accident when a stunt went wrong on the Vancouver set of Deadpool 2 last week, new information suggests that Hollywood’s lack of diversity might have indirectly contributed to her death

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One stunt coordinator who spoke with Deadpool 2 crew members says that producers risked Harris’s life by wanting Beetz to have a racially correct double: “The producers put pressure to have somebody of the same sex and ethnicity in a position she wasn’t qualified to be in. The stunt coordinators caved to the pressure. All the stunt people could do was take it to their higher-ups. They’re going to follow their chain of command.” THR’s sources believe that producers having few options for an experienced black female stuntwoman is endemic of Hollywood’s whiteness across all fields. In 2014, the issue made headlines when Gotham attempted to use a white stuntwoman in blackface as a stand-in for a black actress despite union opposition to such practices; the show eventually cast a black stuntwoman and said it “made a mistake.”

The article is saying that it's the 'lack of diversity" is actually the cause and that they wanted to match the sex and race of the actress that the stuntwoman would be replacing (which is understandable since we live in the age where we can now spot the pores on the actor's faces because all of us now own at least a TV where that is possible AND/OR we can just buy a movie ticket to see the movie in the most define version that we can afford).

[clubgop]

Uhmmm...what? What narrative you talking about, GCF?

The narrative of unions murdering a woman because they forced diversity down the filmmakers throats. Come on man. It's all they have.

We also have the narrative of you defending PC bullshit despite all protestations of being against said bullshit. SJW cat rides to the rescue of the narrative, not the stuntwoman, she is a martyr, but your narrative.