Re: Jon Stewart regrets mostly white, male staff on 'Daily Show'

On 6/26/20 9:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> Jon Stewart owned up about some of his shortcomings when it came to 
> cultivating a diverse staff during his tenure on “The Daily Show” in an 
> interview on the “Breakfast Club” Tuesday.
> 
> Toward the end of the interview (starting around the 50:40 mark), the 
> conversation turned to how white men in positions of power, like 
> Stewart, have an obligation to not only acknowledge systemic racism but 
> work to tear down its structures. Stewart admitted: “What’s hard about 
> that for people is you get defensive. Nobody likes to be called on 
> their s–t, especially when they feel like it’s not really their s–t. 
> But what you realize is, just stopping active persecution isn’t enough 
> to dismantle. It has to be actively dismantled.”
> 
> Stewart went on to speak openly about the criticisms he received for 
> having a predominately white, predominately male staff on “The Daily 
> Show.” Alluding to a 2010 Jezebel article about the show’s boys’ club, 
> for instance, he said he remembered “going back into the writer’s room 
> and being like, ‘Do you believe this s–t? Kevin? Steve? Mike? Bob? 
> Donald?’ Oh … Uh oh. Uh oh.”
> 
> Stewart added that, at the time, “The Daily Show” had a policy that hid 
> the names of job applicants, which they thought was “the way to not be 
> sexist and racist.” But when they kept hiring “white dudes from a 
> certain background,” they eventually realized that “the river that we 
> were getting the material from, the tributary was also polluted by the 
> same inertia. And you had to say to them, send me women, send me black 
> people. And all of a sudden, women got funny, it just kind of happened 
> — but they’d been funny all along. We just hadn’t actively done enough 
> to mine that.”
> 
> Stewart also addressed arguably the most controversial moment of his 
> time at “The Daily Show”: When he blew up at Wyatt Cenac — the only 
> black person on staff at the time — after the correspondent called him 
> out for a racist bit where Stewart did an impression of former 
> presidential candidate Herman Cain.
> 
> “It took me a long time to realize that the real issue was that we 
> hired a person who is black … [and] they felt like they’re carrying the 
> weight of representation,” Stewart said. “So they suddenly feel like, 
> ‘I’ve got to be the speaker of the race.’ So we think we’re doing the 
> right thing, but we’re not doing it in the right way. Those were hard 
> lessons for me, and they were humbling lessons. And I was defensive 
> about them and still didn’t do it all right.”
> 
> Stewart closed by saying he doesn’t consider himself malevolent, but 
> acknowledged, “My ignorance of that dynamic had real consequences.” He 
> added, “For us to dismantle the entrenched tributaries that continue to 
> contribute to inequality of outcome of equity, it takes effort.”
> 
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> Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they 
> love this country.
> 
> 
> 
Democrats seek mediocrity....  and mediocrity will lose.  The Democrats
do this by attempting to allow skin color dictate their choices rather
then seeking excellence no matter the skin color.  You see that's where
Capitalism outshines Marxism,  equality is based on the content of the
character and the talents are interconnected with character NOT SKIN
COLOR.

The government is required to seek mediocrity based on treating people
equally but private enterprise has to compete for business so private
enterprise has to seek to be better than mediocre or they lose business
since people want the best item or best entertainment NOT just mediocre
items and entertainment.

Jon Stewart wants to be a racist and select talent and character, based
on it's color of skin. No wonder he's a Socialist/Marxist type, those
are racial oriented ideologies that can choose people on the color of
their skin while Libertarian Capitalism allows the character and the
talent to be the primary factor.

I always said and it's been obvious that *GOVERNMENT and MILITARY* were
geared to serving and treating everyone equal because it's of the
people, so skin color was always an issue to keep the equal taxation
spread equally across all people, where as when people are selected by
the *PRIVATE SECTOR* based on talent and character then color of skin is
NOT an issue for anyone because again the money is the primary concern
to stay in business...  allowing government to corrupt that, is the
racism.  The ability to make money and be excellent at their job is the
primary goal, which as we all know is NOT the description of GOVERNMENT,
because GOVERNMENT that is equal is never excellent at anything other
than mediocrity.


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*That's Karma*

*Use of the words PRIVILEGED and RACIST is Prejudicial and hateful*