<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656619699832,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b6-de22-a173-2ffe05de0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656619699832,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b6-de22-a173-2ffe05de0001","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_56613960", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1043975"} }); ","_id":"00000181-b63a-d578-a1dd-bebe78500000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedThe rise of woke culture has many people digging up old shows, movies, and tweets to cancel people for their lack of wokeness. But try as they might, those with a good head on their shoulders see right through the charade. Unfortunately, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman is not one of the smarter ones.
The classic ’90s show has been criticized for years for the lack of diversity within its cast. The show was set in New York City. It followed six best friends and their messy and chaotic love lives. Since they all happened to be white and heterosexual — though that was not intentionally done, as the creators say — the lack of diversity is just too much for the woke Left.
“Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy,” Kauffman said in an LA Times interview. “It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”
Kauffman, 65, finally decided to make the public happy and appease them — and it only cost her $4 million.
“In an attempt to redeem herself, Kauffman pledged $4 million to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to fund an endowed chair in the school’s African and African American studies department,” the New York Post reported. This huge donation seemed like the only way Kauffman felt she could rectify her terrible mistakes.
“This seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman’s perspective,” Kauffman said.
The cast of Friends was quite obviously picked for its acting skills, not to fulfill some kind of racial quota. “I would have been insane not to hire those six actors,” co-creator Kevin Bright said.
But whatever. Kauffman’s money will surely solve all the problems with the lack of diversity seen within the show. In the words of The Rembrandts: “So no one told you life was going to be this way.”
Call me crazy, but caving to woke culture by donating large sums of money to buy indulgences for your “systematic racism” is not how I imagined life was going to be.
Esther Wickham is a summer 2022 Washington Examiner fellow.
