David Mamet Offers Extreme Take On Hollywood Diversity, Equity And Inclusion

The Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter also argued that his famous children, including "Girls" star Zosia Mamet, didn't benefit from his industry status.

David Mamet is decrying efforts to support the underrepresented as “totalitarian fascism.”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter argued as much during a panel Sunday with The Los Angeles Times for its annual Festival of Books gathering and said DEI, a framework aimed at nurturing diversity, equity and inclusion across various industries, is useless.

“DEI is garbage,” he reportedly said at the panel. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”

Mamet, who attended the panel to promote his memoir, “Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood,” has spent the past few years as a vocal critic of various progressive causes.

Just last year, he urged Jewish people — Mamet is Jewish himself — to stop supporting Democrat politicians and to keep their children from attending “antisemitic colleges” in the wake of the renewed Israel-Gaza conflict.