Actor Clifton Duncan, who has starred in “Elementary,” “Flesh and Bones,” “The Good Fight,” as well as a number of other projects, has expressed his strong resentment regarding the so-called “woke era” and the fact that many actors are now allowing themselves to offend mainstream audiences by catering to minorities:

Many actors today are not performing for the general public, but are fighting for the approval of their peers and minorities from Americans who think like them. That’s why they feel entitled to insult you – you are on the wrong side of history. What amazes me is that there doesn’t seem to be a single PR person smart enough to get them to stop pushing this on consumers.

At the same time, the actor believes that some really talented actors are used by studio producers when they realize the inevitable failure of their projects – they deliberately add a “variety” of actors to such projects in order to shift the focus and future anger of the audience from the quality of the project to the actors themselves, thus alluding to the recent failed series “Star Wars: Acolyte”:

The legacy of the woke era in entertainment was the sacrifice of the careers and reputations of talented women and minorities when they were placed in doomed projects that inevitably elicited harsh negative reactions.

The “diversity” of these shows is a major advertising argument. That said, when audiences reject a show, they are accused of hating “diversity”… as opposed to wooden dialog, bland cinematography, sluggish plot, infidelity to the source material, etc.

The audience hates the project for diversity and insults the actors, and the audience itself is then very conveniently accused by the studio of hating diversity – so while the actors and audience are attacked, the real cause of the failure (the producers and studio) remains safe.