Recently, a voice actor named SungWon Cho, a.k.a. ProZD, made a big deal about leaving Twitter because he was taking a lot of heat for accepting a role that violates his earlier position in favor of “authentic casting,” i.e. the restriction of voice acting roles to actors who share the same ethnicity or protected group status as the character.
Everyone and his dog is calling ProZD a hypocrite. But, as far as I’ve seen, only Eric July has grabbed onto the very important point that hypocrite isn’t an insult to someone whose ideology is hypocritical at its base.
The victimhood mentality or ideology held by ProZD and many others has, as one of its core tenets, a two-tiered system of justice. Certain groups are designated as “victims” because they are minorities. Then, the people with this ideology claim “Different rules apply to me because I’m a victim.”
No proof of actual victimhood is necessary, only membership in some specific collective.
Why do this? Well, part of it is that advocating for positions like “authentic casting” appeal to other people holding victimhood ideologies. And HR and hiring managers are some of the first to be infiltrated by collectivists.
The people professing this “moral” position further do not expect to reap any consequences but the virtue signal. They assume “authentic casting” won’t be implemented, because they believe there are “systemic” failures in voluntary association, which they usually deride as “capitalism.”
In other words, their stances are not just hypocritical, they are cynical and self-serving power grabs.
They claim the problem is so systemic that they have no chance of making a dent in it. It’s baked into capitalism, don’t you know? So imagine their surprise when they find that they actually do have the power to change things, and then it comes back to bite them in the ass.
Even more hilarious, companies adopted “authentic hiring” without any government action, no guns pointed at anyone’s head.
So voluntary association did give them the power they needed to change the industry! The “systemic” problems are not nearly as “systemic” as they believe!
This just goes to show how wrong and empty their ideology is. They virtue signal for jobs, and end up virtue signaling so well that they change the whole industry to kick themselves out of jobs!
But why, you might ask, does implementation of “authentic casting” lose them jobs? Well, as of right now, there are social pressures to make hiring and casts of characters more “diverse” from these collectivists, but government pressure is entirely on the hiring side!
In short, the number of “diverse” VAs grew faster than the number of “diverse” roles. They literally argued themselves into a higher unemployment rate.
The obvious solution is to completely reject these collectivist victimhood ideologies and work on voluntary association. Let people speak, but watch out for when they are being collectivist, especially when their reasons are hypocritical, self-serving, and cynical.
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Intro quote by Franco Guevara from this article
https://mises.org/power-market/critics-capitalism-misunderstand-economic-success
Intro music by Mopisound, courtesy Dova Syndrome
https://dova-s.jp/EN/_contents/author/profile060.html