Hollywood Is So Hopelessly out of Touch with Reality

Somebody named Ellen Pompeo (of whom I had never before heard, but apparently she’s in a popular TV show) is upset that a dance number in the recent Emmy show didn’t have enough ‘people of color’.

Ellen Pompeo wasn't a fan of this year's Emmy Awards show. 

The 43-year-old actress says she "was really disappointed" by Sunday's telecast. 

"I didn't see any diversity in the Emmys at all. The Emmys felt so dated to me," she said in an interview Monday. "... That dance number was embarrassing. Did you see one person of color in that dance number?"

Not that this sort of thing is worthy of any attention at all, but it brings to mind two points.

One is the habit the left variety of wingnuts has of defining ‘diversity’ solely in terms of skin color (and, sometimes, gender). They have zero interest in any other form of diversity (e.g., diversity of thinking, opinion, religion, etc). I doubt that there were many Republicans or fundamentalist Christians dancing onstage, either, but Ms. Pompeo is unlikely to care about such things. (Nor do I, for the record – I hope the producer simply chose the best dancers).

The other is the incredible pettiness of the thing. If one is genuinely concerned with diversity, however defined, aren’t there areas of life more worthy of such concern than the Emmys?