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.
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.
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.