Quote:Alec Baldwin's latest critic isn't his usual nemesis Donald Trump; the veteran actor is instead being called out by leading disability advocates for his portrayal of a blind novelist in the upcoming film Blind.

In the movie, due out July 14th, Baldwin plays a man who loses his wife – and his sight – in a car crash. He later starts an affair with a married socialite (Demi Moore) who was forced to read to him as part of her plea bargain for a separate crime.

The Ruderman Family Foundation, an advocacy organization for disability rights, issued a statement to the Los Angeles Times Thursday denouncing the film’s casting.

"Alec Baldwin in Blind is just the latest example of treating disability as a costume," Jay Ruderman, the foundation's president, said in the statement. "We no longer find it acceptable for white actors to portray black characters. Disability as a costume needs to also become universally unacceptable."

The foundation has previously raised concerns with other mainstream movies as well, including last year's Me Before You, in which Sam Claflin, an able-bodied actor, portrayed a paralyzed man.

In July 2016, the foundation released its Ruderman White Paper on Employment of Actors With Disabilities in Television; the findings revealed that though people with disabilities make up nearly 20 percent of the nation's population, about 95 percent of characters with disabilities on TV are played by able-bodied actors.

"This is nothing short of a social justice issue where a marginalized group of people is not given the right to self-representation," the study reads. "We must change this inequality through more inclusive casting, through the use of Computer Graphics (CG) to create ability, through the media holding the industry responsible, through the avoidance of stereotypical stories, and ultimately through the telling of stories that depict people with disabilities without focusing on the disability. We also provide a list of resources where actors with disabilities can be proactively reached."

(07-06-2017, 10:58 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Apparently people who can see aren't allowed to play blind characters in Hollywood anymore. It is being compared to black face.

So from now on, only blind people can play blind people, only homeless people can play homeless people, only Jedi can play Jedi, only people with cancer can play people with cancer, only vampires can play vampires, and only straight people can play straight people (sorry Neil Patrick Harris, your immense talent is for gay roles only now).

Funniest bit of this all is this is SJWs turning on Baldwin, who is one of their own. PC culture is turning in on itself as it becomes more absurd.


http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/alec-baldwin-criticized-for-portraying-blind-man-in-new-film-w491281

(07-06-2017, 10:58 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Apparently people who can see aren't allowed to play blind characters in Hollywood anymore. It is being compared to black face.

So from now on, only blind people can play blind people, only homeless people can play homeless people, only Jedi can play Jedi, only people with cancer can play people with cancer, only vampires can play vampires, and only straight people can play straight people (sorry Neil Patrick Harris, your immense talent is for gay roles only now).

Funniest bit of this all is this is SJWs turning on Baldwin, who is one of their own. PC culture is turning in on itself as it becomes more absurd.


http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/alec-baldwin-criticized-for-portraying-blind-man-in-new-film-w491281

(07-06-2017, 11:50 PM)GMDino Wrote: Fighting for those with disabilities to get more roles.

They...are...monsters!

I mean a white sheet??!!  Why not a black sheet?!?!  Amiright?!?!

It's getting to the point you can't even use slurs and derogatory comments around one of "them"!

Dang PC'ers!!!11!!1!!

(07-06-2017, 11:55 PM)Vas Deferens Wrote: Grasping at straws.   I'd think you would want a real virgin birth mother to play Mary.  WHY CANT A VIRGIN MOTHER PLAY MARY!

(07-07-2017, 12:38 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You don't get it.


You get it.

(07-06-2017, 11:39 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The left has gone form admirable causes, like equal rights for minorities, women and homosexuals, to batshit insane crusades like; "no gender", no dissenting opinions and this kind of crap.  Every movement eventually becomes self destructive, it's just the left's turn.

(07-07-2017, 10:06 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, the issue is that they have to do stuff like this to make up for the neoliberalism they are embracing. Because it is very economically conservative compared to the liberals of the first half of the twentieth century, they feel like they need to make up for it with this kind of stuff. I mean, I get their argument, but how many blind actors are there in the industry with the talent for a role like that? This isn't like when we give a white person a spray tan to play an Asian or something.

(07-07-2017, 10:06 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, the issue is that they have to do stuff like this to make up for the neoliberalism they are embracing. Because it is very economically conservative compared to the liberals of the first half of the twentieth century, they feel like they need to make up for it with this kind of stuff. I mean, I get their argument, but how many blind actors are there in the industry with the talent for a role like that? This isn't like when we give a white person a spray tan to play an Asian or something.

(07-07-2017, 09:06 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Sorry, but if a producer can get Alec Baldwin or Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks etc to play a part  , then that's who is getting the part.

(07-07-2017, 11:22 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I get what you're saying but I don't think it's even that well thought out.  I think it's the logical extension of the gains that have been made socially in the past ten or so years.  We've seen rapid social change, initially for the better.  However, the eventual lack of push back has led to more extreme behavior as it inevitably does.  Saying someone isn't born with a sex is the height of absurdity, the fact that the idea is entertained by more than the radical fringe shows just how extreme many on the left have become.  People patrolling Evergreen college with baseball bats to enforce their SJW agenda is another extreme example.  The ironic thing is that this behavior is self destructive in the extreme, it turns off 100 people for every one it recruits, myself included.  I would, and did, proudly identify with the progressive agenda on social issues until rather recently.  Now I'd rather drink bleach than do so.

The ultimate expression of the upshot of this inane behavior can be seen in who was elected president.

(07-07-2017, 10:06 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, the issue is that they have to do stuff like this to make up for the neoliberalism they are embracing. Because it is very economically conservative compared to the liberals of the first half of the twentieth century, they feel like they need to make up for it with this kind of stuff. I mean, I get their argument, but how many blind actors are there in the industry with the talent for a role like that? This isn't like when we give a white person a spray tan to play an Asian or something.

(07-06-2017, 10:58 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Apparently people who can see aren't allowed to play blind characters in Hollywood anymore. It is being compared to black face.

So from now on, only blind people can play blind people, only homeless people can play homeless people, only Jedi can play Jedi, only people with cancer can play people with cancer, only vampires can play vampires, and only straight people can play straight people (sorry Neil Patrick Harris, your immense talent is for gay roles only now).

Funniest bit of this all is this is SJWs turning on Baldwin, who is one of their own. PC culture is turning in on itself as it becomes more absurd.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/alec-baldwin-criticized-for-portraying-blind-man-in-new-film-w491281

(07-07-2017, 12:55 AM)Millhouse Wrote: I dont see what the big deal is.

(07-06-2017, 11:39 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The left has gone form admirable causes, like equal rights for minorities, women and homosexuals, to batshit insane crusades like; "no gender", no dissenting opinions and this kind of crap.  Every movement eventually becomes self destructive, it's just the left's turn.

(07-07-2017, 10:06 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, the issue is that they have to do stuff like this to make up for the neoliberalism they are embracing. Because it is very economically conservative compared to the liberals of the first half of the twentieth century, they feel like they need to make up for it with this kind of stuff. I mean, I get their argument, but how many blind actors are there in the industry with the talent for a role like that? This isn't like when we give a white person a spray tan to play an Asian or something.