The Golden Globes audience of the Hollywood woke laughed and applauded at the lame and insulting recitation of white stereotypes by a black and an Asian presenter over the weekend. In fact, I don’t object to racial and ethnic stereotypes used for humor, as long as there is a single standard for all. However, it is not news that at this point in our increasingly unethical culture, there isn’t any taboo on making racially denigrating jokes about whites while the same kinds of jokes about any other group will lead to shunning, unemployment, and career disruption. If you want to ensure that racial disharmony gets worse instead of better, that’s a brilliant strategy. Yes, it is hypocrisy exemplified, but those who benefit from this double standard rationalize its appropriateness in a number of ways, or just don’t care.
The Golden Globes were back on prime time after a couple of years’ exile for, among other problems, complaints about their dearth of “diversity,” so you know what the new regime’s priorities were. Signalling their sincerity, the choice of host for the evening was ‘historic”: we are told that Jo Kay was the first Filipino American comedian to serve as MC for the broadcast, and only the second Asian. He was also, if not the first embarrassingly incompetent host, a reminder that choosing a comedian because of his ethnicity rather than his comedy skills is a dubious strategy. Even the reliably woke audience in the seats couldn’t manage to make themselves laugh at him, historic Filipino or not, and Jo Kay bombed. Good.
Watch him be asked back…
In such a warped and rigged environment, how proud of her award could Lily Gladstone be when she became became the “historic” first indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best actress, for her turn in “Killers of the Flower Moon”? Naturally, she basked in a standing ovation, which at this Golden Globes ceremony, was probably recognition for not being white.
Ethics Alarms 
One word of defense. I don’t know Jo Kay, but, from what I heard, he was a late edition to the show and had a less than typical time to prepare. That could explain the poor material. However, he probably did himself no favor in taking on a project with an inadequate amount of time to prepare.
As for this little bit, I was not sure how to take it. First off, the bit is that they wish they could get “white roles.” Considering the racial casting decisions fashionable in Hollywood these days, the joke kind of fell flat. The joke is that they CAN get white roles.
The other part of the joke was that white roles all involved some kind of alcoholic. My problem with this was three-fold. 1: Alcoholism is not really a white stereotype; it is an Irish one, to be sure (and no one, not even the Russians, does alcoholism as well as the Irish). It So, I did not get the joke. 2: Then, I tried to think of what the joke might be about and my mind drew a blank on any white-alcoholic films (Arthur now comes to mind). 3: The alcoholic movie that jumped immediately to my mind was Flight, starring Denzel Washington.
And, they say they can’t get white roles? That’s just because they are not as talented as Denzel.
-Jut