<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet certainly has a way with words — and he did not mince any when he delivered a blistering takedown of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> (DEI) standards that now limit him and others who share his profession.</p>
<p>Mamet made the comments during an <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-21/david-mamet-hollywood-diversity-dei-initiatives-festival-of-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Los Angeles Times deputy entertainment editor Matt Brennan and the outlet&#8217;s Festival of Books — hosted by University of Southern California — where he was promoting his memoir, &#8220;Everywhere an Oink, Oink.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;DEI is garbage. It’s fascist totalitarianism,&#8221; Mamet told Brennan. His memoir, which was published last fall, tells his life story in a series of anecdotes — and follows his political metamorphosis as well. Mamet refers to himself as a &#8220;red diaper baby,&#8221; the child of two communists — and details how he made the journey from the far Left to his current position: supporting former President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>The award-winning playwright and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000519/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">screenwriter</a> — whose works include &#8220;Glengarry Glen Ross,&#8221; &#8220;The Untouchables,&#8221; and &#8220;Hannibal&#8221; — also took issue with the new &#8220;inclusion standards&#8221; that have been implemented by the Academy of Motion Pictures, noting that for films to even be considered for awards, they had to check certain boxes according to DEI standards.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can’t give you a stupid f***ing statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that,&#8221; Mamet complained. &#8220;It’s intrusive.&#8221;</p>
<p>He did not spare the feelings of those charged with implementing the new standards either, referring to them in his memoir as &#8220;diversity capos&#8221; and &#8220;diversity commissars.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mamet conceded that Hollywood had long been a place where discrimination had thrived — but argued that the executives dictating the new rules were better suited to &#8220;selling popcorn&#8221; than to creating a less restrictive environment.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Despite his long career in Hollywood, Mamet said that he&#8217;s been shuffled off the main stage in recent years — but he did not blame the shift in his political views for that. Instead, he said that his age was the likely culprit — and younger directors preferred to work with people closer to their own age.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nobody’s going to pay me a lot of money anymore. Nobody’s going to let me have a lot of fun,&#8221; he said.</p>

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