Do You Want To Build A Straw Man?

I like Mark Harris. I respect Mark Harris. I care what Mark Harris thinks.

Unfortunately, Mark Harris has become one of the media's most aggressive spokeshammers for the "everything is a nail" coalition.

I read his most recent Vanity Fair piece, "Conventional Oscar Wisdom Has an Almost All-White Best-Actress Lineup—For No Reason" with real curiosity.

I seemed to be the only one, a few months back, willing to note that we were looking at a pretty Oscar-So-White kind of season of Academy nominations. Fifteen years ago and until the last few years, I have been one of the few journalists willing to acknowledge that racial prejudice at the Academy was a real thing and that it had a real effect on nominations and wins. I am also one of a very few writers who is willing to suffer the indignation of the Academy for pointing out that the "2020" expanded invitations to women and people of color has failed to add very many black American filmmakers, even with over 3,000 invitations going out in the…