"Stop asking us what to do, how to fix things, all right? I'm so tired of this," Waititi said. "I'm so tired of the diversity conversation, the inclusivity conversation, all the conversations. All of us want to be working and not having to come and do fucking panels and speeches in the middle of our day."
I'm sick of it too. I want all those panels and speeches made by wealthy elite for the express purpose of saying white people suck for even existing shut down permanently, and that everyone works on the projects and art they want to make. Somehow, I have a feeling you don't want that to happen; you just don't want to be in them yourself.
"You wonder why there is no indigenous stuff out there," Waititi said. "This is the shit you've got us doing. Making us come and talk about the problem and tell you how to fix it. You fucking broke it — you fix it."
If you're not willing to come to the table to talk about it and offer your solutions, then no one is obligated to "fix" anything for you.
"I don't want to see one token Polynesian character in your show. What I want to see is a fully Polynesian-controlled, Polynesian story that's written by and show run by" a Polynesian person, he said. "When we make our things, don't give us a white showrunner to tell us the rules and tell us how to do things. Let us figure it out, and let us figure out the structure of the story in our own way from our own experience."
Then the Polynesians should go make their own fucking movies and stop expecting Hollywood to do it for them. Hey, COHEN, you're Maori. Put your goddamn money where your mouth is and film some Polynesian stories yourself and staff it with all the Polynesian people you want. Instead of constantly shitting on white and European history and culture like you've always done. Except we both know that's not really what you want or what this "diversity" push has been about. It's always just been about destroying, stealing, and erasing white culture. You said just as much with this:
"By decolonizing the screen, what I mean is just don't make it so white."
You don't want "diversity." You just want whites gone.
I'm sick of it too. I want all those panels and speeches made by wealthy elite for the express purpose of saying white people suck for even existing shut down permanently, and that everyone works on the projects and art they want to make. Somehow, I have a feeling you don't want that to happen; you just don't want to be in them yourself.
If you're not willing to come to the table to talk about it and offer your solutions, then no one is obligated to "fix" anything for you.
Then the Polynesians should go make their own fucking movies and stop expecting Hollywood to do it for them. Hey, COHEN, you're Maori. Put your goddamn money where your mouth is and film some Polynesian stories yourself and staff it with all the Polynesian people you want. Instead of constantly shitting on white and European history and culture like you've always done. Except we both know that's not really what you want or what this "diversity" push has been about. It's always just been about destroying, stealing, and erasing white culture. You said just as much with this:
You don't want "diversity." You just want whites gone.