“It’s scripting future lynchings, social exclusion, and political othering. It’s telling a billion individuals: This hate is appropriate. That is the story we select to reward,” the assertion additional reads. “We refuse to just accept that our craft—the cinema we imagine in and are coaching to make—ought to be decreased to a device of state-sponsored communalism. We refuse to just accept that Islamophobia is now award-worthy. And we refuse to be silent because the business we hope to enter is being reshaped to reward lies, bigotry, and fascist ideology. The state should perceive: giving awards to propaganda doesn’t make it true. And we, as college students and residents, won’t cease calling it what it’s—incitement. Violence,” the assertion concluded.
