The Oscars requires hard quotas of blacks, those eternal Victims, in the movies nominated to win its various awards. Since there are not as many black actors of quality as desired---the quotas are disproportional to the percent of blacks in the population---the consequence is that substandard movies meeting the quotas are over-praised, while better movies failing the quota test are ignored, or aren't made (they can't find funding, for instance).
The post inspired me to re-read Stove's "The Intellectual Capacity of Women", which I do every few years. Behold, an external link on philpapers.org goes to wmbriggs.com...
The post inspired me to re-read Stove's "The Intellectual Capacity of Women", which I do every few years. Behold, an external link on philpapers.org goes to wmbriggs.com...