First of all, I should clarify, I'm not a white supremacist, however I feel that different cultures have different values and certain fields will naturally be overrepresented by certain races, and when you find "equity" you're finding mediocrity being ignored for an agenda.
Now with Penn and Teller Fool Us, probably about 90% of the people doing the magic are white men.
There are a smattering of other races, including black, asian, etc. And on the very rare occasion a woman.
Because magic is not only nerdy and niche, it can't just be appropriated the way other hobbies are. It takes years of effort to be considered qualified to be a magician. Not so easy huh trannies as it is to just flood some fandom and say you're a fan now?
When you see a black man on stage on the show Penn and Teller Fool Us, you know darn well that he deserves to be there, because, for one, he has to prove that fact on television and also because magic is something that requires years of dedication and skilled practice and if you haven't done that, it's going to be obvious immediately.
It might be the most merit based reality show ever made.
You watch a cooking show like master chef and the judges can say whatever they want, as can the producers manipulate however they want. That's why every Master Chef episode looks like a Mcdonald's commercial or any modern video game.
Magic isn't subjective like that. To even get there, you had to have been honing your craft for at least years.
If it were a show about beginner magicians, they'd no doubt make the show fill a quota of 40% women, 60% non-white and find plenty of people who don't care about magic, but just want to be on television then have these non magicians be taught enough that they can perform entry level tricks on TV and push the non-white, and probably women and "trans" to the winning spots.
But, whether they thought through the implications or not, they decided to make a show where the goal is to fool professional magicians, so by nature, you're going to have to have the best of the best be on the show or else they'd embarrass themselves.
So, yeah the few non-white people who are contestants, it's obvious that they deserve to be there, and due to it being pure merit based, it's like 90% white men.
True. I like them but Penn seemed to suffer from TDS. Penn is an atheist but doesn’t seem to hate Christians last I heard. I disagree with them regarding the paranormal/supernatural but overall like them.
You bring up a good point about demographics. Certain hobbies attract certain groups for whatever reason and we have seen people try to change that. Like super hero comics mainly appeal to guys but marvel and dc saw that as a problem like KK saw it as a problem that a lot of guys enjoyed Star Wars
Penn has gone full on shitlib and let his daughter trans herself, so fuck him and his nonsensical, clownish worldview.
Wow, didn’t know about his daughter
I didn't know that about his daughter either.
Yeah, Penn, though I disagree with him on much, like his atheism, used to be a very intelligent and principled thinker who was entertaining to listen to, and you're right, he actually respects Christians who evangelize because he says that if you truly believe eternity is at stake, how much would a Christian have to hate me to not want to try and preach about the dangers of hell, and that the Christians who aren't doing that because they want to be "nice" would be like not shoving someone out of the way of an incoming truck because you're worried you'll offend them for shoving them.
And yeah, I heard that TDS has made him not such a good thinker like he used to be.
Penn is only maths and verbal smarts at best. Could tell from his reaction to Trump on The Apprentice. He could be lying, but he claimed Trump is a low intellect narcissist who only talked abt himself and expressed no interest in other people. Trump is actually very interested in other people who have interesting things to say. Someone like Elon Musk he'll talk abt all the time weaving the other person's stories together with his own. Otoh if he finds you boring or doesn't like you, he'll intentionally forget your name and ignore you. Penn, if world famous mega mogul friend to kings and paupers alike Donald Trump ignored your little cocktail party stories, that's a you problem buddy.
Penn was a Reddit atheist libertarian before Reddit ever existed but he's also a tremendous showman so I can overlook it.
Not that I like Penn but 2016 just broke him and he hasn't been the same since. He despises Hillary just as much as Trump so he basically was screwed no matter what happened.
Much like Disco dancing, he was great for his time but cannot be brought back.
I still listen to disco at home. You can’t stop me from jamming to Disco Duck! lol
I agree with Penn on a lot but he's one of those atheists that won't shut the fuck up about it. When he did wife swap they swapped his wife with Judy Gold, a jewess comedian that won't shut the fuck up about being jewish.
I watched a video about how to do the "guess my card" trick and it was amazing the amount of attention to detail and expense that went into doing that one trick. It basically involves buying 13 decks of cards and removing everything except 4 of the same cards from every deck. So you're only working with 4 possible cards.
That's hilarious. You do realize that everything on television is fake and/or orchestrated, right? If there are 'judges' involved and the show's concept is a 'contest', then you know the judges are in on it.
But not only is this a contest show with judges, but it involves 'magicians', rofl. Television magicians are the absolute worst frauds out there and nine times out of ten, the audiences (and the judges) are in on the trick in order to hoodwink the actual audience, namely the viewer.
Then add that this is an American show, and you know that you're watching something 100% fake.
Have you watched the show?
Penn and Teller know basically every technique there is. Fooling them usually boils down to did the magician effectively use multiple techniques in order to make them guess the wrong one that they used primarily, or if it's something where they know exactly what was used such as sleight of hand, if the magician is so skilled at sleight of hand that Penn and Teller don't see him doing it, aka they didn't "catch" him, they consider that fooling them even though they know how the trick is done in principle.
Fooling Penn and Teller, because they know the various ways any given trick could possibly be pulled off, more revolves around them correctly or incorrectly guessing the way or if their act was so flawless that they didn't in the moment see the method, they also reward the magician.
Many magicians have been on the show and say exactly how it works.
First they show the producers exactly how the trick works, and then they re-perform the tricks for Penn and Teller, and the producers via a mic confirms or denies that Penn and Teller's theory is correct or incorrect.
Now I'm sure there's some magicians they claim fooled them, that actually didn't, but because they liked the magicians act enough, they let on like they didn't fool them, but this is a rare case of a reality show that seems pretty legit.
There were issues with the show 'shopping acts and editing them in order to look more convincing to the television, in example on a black-velvet-box coin trick, editing the circles on the velvet where coins slide to "hide", to blur them for the television audience to not see the trick. So to the live audience, you could see the trick with close examination, but it was 100% impossible for TV audiences, because they edited the tools after the fact.
How old is this show? Since stage magic is all about trickery, the other guy has a really good point about it likely being scripted, but your point about the non diverse contestants is even stronger if it came out in the past decade or so.
The first episode was 2011 when it was a UK show, but still had Penn and Teller as the judges. Nothing was different about the show except the host and most of the contestants were British.
When it was brought to the US it was 2014 and it's still going as of this year and the contestants are still the same as it's always been as far as I can tell. I watch clips on Youtube. You see, the show actually allows the individual magicians to upload their respective episodes to their own youtube channels, so most Fool Us segments are uploaded in their entirety without having to pay to watch, scattered across all the contestants youtube channels.
But you click on one, and dozens of others are recommended on the sidebar.
It's all designed to fool the television audience.
With some shows, I bet they had the winner all picked out, before the show even began filming.
Usually the smart thing to do is not go off into Reddit retard rants about how smart you are when you don't know anything about what you're talking about.
I don't need to. It's on television.