Oscars 2024 Under Fire: Backlash Erupts Over DEI Standards and Best Picture Nomination Criteria
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The “DEI” standards of Oscars 2024 have gone viral on social media, prompting netizens to criticize them. This past weekend, the prestigious awards event, Oscars 2024, took place, generating a lot of buzz on social media. However, the event’s DEI standards have recently surfaced on the internet, leading many to slam them. But why?
Read on to learn more about the Oscars’ “DEI” standards going viral on the internet, leading many to criticize them.
Oscars DEI standards go viral on social media
With the Oscars 2024 being the recent event in the limelight for its highlights and winners, an X account shared a screenshot of the DEI standards for nominations under the Best Picture category on social media. The post has gone viral, sparking reactions from all as well.
An X account, @EndWokeness, shared the screenshot of the reported DEI standards for the Oscars. For those unfamiliar, DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. These standards are set to encourage the participation of underrepresented groups or individuals in awards nominations.
This is why I don't give a shlit about what happens at the Oscars tonight.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 10, 2024
It's all woke anti-meritocratic bullshlit. pic.twitter.com/cNgfBdNvVV
Exploring the Viral Post About Reported DEI Standards for Oscars
In the viral X post about the reported DEI standards for the Best Picture category of the Oscars 2024, the criteria mentioned stated that a film for the category must meet two of the four criteria listed, which include considerations related to ethnic or racial groups.
This resulted in netizens criticizing the standards on social media. Moreover, they reacted to how much these new DEI standards are going to impact future Oscars events. They all responded to the X post sharing the screenshot of the Oscars’ DEI criteria for the Best Picture category.
DEI will make the Oscars DIE.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) March 10, 2024
This is just cultural marxism on full display. The point is to weaken America by destroying the concept of individual merit while implementing systemic racism that perpetuates mutual bigotry.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) March 10, 2024
It’s deliberate subversion of America. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Netizens Criticize DEI Standards at Oscars 2024
After the X post about the Oscars’ DEI standards went viral on social media, many netizens reacted by publicly criticizing it. They felt that the DEI standards were neglecting “individual merit.”
One user wrote, “The woke movement continues on.” Another added, “Winning an Oscar now just means you won the woke contest.” A user even commented, “DEI will make the Oscars DIE.”
Due to the Oscars’ DEI standards, many have even called the same awards event irrelevant.
This is institutionalized racism against white people.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 10, 2024
It’s antiwhiteism and I heard @MarkDice coin that term a while ago.
We need to start using it consistently to describe what’s going on because that’s it.
Antiwhiteism.
Basically, what they are saying is that the oscar is no longer for the BEST in a given area, but the one that we feel gives the most warm fuzzies, even at the expense of others. Good job, Hollywood. You just want to make yourself more irrelevant, don't you?
— TexanDogDad (@texandogdad) March 10, 2024
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