rant · moment 17 of 19
How DEI Quotas Wrecked Hollywood Institutions
from Kanye, Elon, & The End Of DEI | The Tim Dillon Show #431 · #431
6 min
Tim expands on how DEI created a culture of extortion and fear in entertainment institutions, prioritizing representation quotas over competence, and contrasts old risk-taking Hollywood with the university-indoctrinated culture that replaced it, plus a riff on the writers' strike.
- Tim describes a company executive who left because he couldn't critique comedians of color or gay and trans comedians without facing consequences.
- DEI created an environment where institutions reordered their priorities around representation quotas rather than quality or competence.
- DEI-style governance created resentment and anger by establishing rules about what opinions were allowed, essentially functioning as a demand to fall in line.
- Tim explains how DEI prioritized representation numbers over quality and competence in institutions he observes in entertainment.
- The approach became unsustainable because everyone started fighting over who had been more oppressed—a hierarchy of victimhood that couldn't be governed.
- Hollywood used to be run by sociopathic risk-takers and gamblers, then was taken over by pseudo-intellectual university types pushing art as a tool for cultural change.
- A pendulum swing is happening now; writers who were led into a strike by people demanding more pay for jobs acquired by sheer luck are now out of work and suffering.
- Tim's friend making $120,000 at a non-entertainment company explained his strategy: stay invisible, do moderate work, don't anger anyone or stand out.
- Many people in Hollywood got greedy during the strike, and while they sat idle for a year, the internet multiplied its content creation exponentially.
- The internet continued to multiply content creation during the writers' strike, making traditional industry workers increasingly obsolete.