Amazon's Woke Smokescreen
Boxes with the Amazon logo are turned upside down after a protest against Amazon in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in November 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The new inclusion policy put out by Amazon Studios offers entries on "womxn" and "acquired limb difference." Meantime, the company's drivers urinate in bottles.
A few years ago, my friend Dan Ahdoot was auditioning for a sitcom on Fox. And things were looking good; he’d heard from his agent that he made it to the last round. Then, he got a call from one of the creators of the show, a friend of his who was calling to say sorry: Dan wasn’t going to get the part. The reason, he said, was that he wasn’t “diverse.”
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