This is a fairly long video from FilmThreat at 18 minutes and change, so I won't say much, except to give you the highlights. At 18 minutes, Alan Ng and Chris Gore barely scratch the surface.
Amazon Studios hired a DEI manager from Caterpillar, the manufacturer of large earth-moving equipment and other things. (Can you imagine two more diametrically opposed industries?). She, and some of her cohorts in HR wrote a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility playbook for screenwriting. You can find that playbook at this link.
Under the rules that hold for writing under this regime, you could not write the original Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or any of the classic, Disney animated films. Mel Brooks would be unknown, as would most Richard Pryor movies. And it probably gets worse from there.
This is a blueprint for Soviet-style propaganda at best.
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