[blackeyeblitzar]

Amazon has a diversity team in the entertainment side of business that literally changes casting and content to fit their DEI goals. It often happens in awkward and forced ways, and that is affecting things like this Bond controversy. Most of this is motivated simply by Amazon’s own DEI culture. But part of it is because the award shows have criteria for eligibility (for best picture etc) that require meeting diversity and other requirements that have nothing to do with how entertaining the show is. Since those creating or participating in these shows don’t want to be ineligible, they do whatever it takes, including retconning.

[scarface_74]

I worked for AWS for 3.5 years. Their only culture is to treat all employees like shit, a PIP culture and one that they know they can continue being tech’s worst employer (despite the newest Leadership Principle) because all of the H1B visa holders will do damn near anything to keep their jobs.

This isn’t an H1B Visa holder rant. It’s an indictment to the program that keeps them beholden to a company.

[tokinonagare]

Both can be true. They're even complementary I'd say: the DEI policies are like social greenwashing for how poorly they treat their employees.

[scarface_74]

As an internal employee I never saw anything but a perfunctory “ally” programs and a bunch of talk about “diversity” and of course we had to watch the videos and use language that didn’t offend anyone.

FWIW: I’m Black and I found some of the things that were suppose to trigger me or some of the “green washing” that were suppose to give me a warm and fuzzy eye rolling.

To be clear, I had a customer facing role (AWS Professional Services). Amazon wasn’t about to send anyone incompetent to talk to their large clients I don’t care what kind of initiatives they had.

[aleph_minus_one]

> But part of it is because the award shows have criteria for eligibility (for best picture etc) that require meeting diversity and other requirements that have nothing to do with how entertaining the show is. Since those creating or participating in these shows don’t want to be ineligible, they do whatever it takes, including retconning.

Perhaps I'm a little bit too rebellious to be a culture fit for the movie industry, but if this is the case, I would be very encouraged to create an a show that is outstanding, but violates the DEI criteria of the award, so that the awards become a target of ridiculation for not including "my" show because of stupid DEI criteria.