{"id":4704,"date":"2018-03-10T04:53:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/10\/hollywoods-and-the-lefts-fascination-with-freaks\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T04:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T04:53:52","slug":"hollywoods-and-the-lefts-fascination-with-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/10\/hollywoods-and-the-lefts-fascination-with-freaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood’s and the Left’s Fascination with Freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The denizens of HollyWeird love the freakish, the 'transgressive,' the grotesque, and the unnatural. And being leftists, they celebrate losers and screw-ups, from the legendary La La Land 'motorist' Rodney King<\/a> to the shotgun murderer Tookie Williams<\/a>. A characteristic of libs and lefties is that in their typical knee-jerk (reflexive as opposed to reflective) style, they take the side of losers, criminals, screw-ups and underdogs regardless of what they did to bring on their underdog status. If you don't understand this, you will never understand the Left and how pernicious leftists are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don't get me wrong. I believe in equal justice under the law. And I believe in helping those who, through no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times. I practice what I preach. But the attitude of leftists whereby they celebrate transgressives and miscreants is perverse, which is why these destructivos<\/em> deserve our steadfast opposition and unremitting contempt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe tomorrow I'll tell you what I really think. For now, I pass the baton to Gilbert T. Sewall<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hollywood\u2019s A-list is almost all in for transformative social justice, which mixes calculated groupthink and \u201ccan I grab the spotlight?\u201d As a result, America\u2019s favorite Hollywood evening has mutated into hours of glossy political hectoring, this year in behalf of female empowerment, support for immigrants, and opposition to the National Rifle Association.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,\u201d Harvey Weinstein declared<\/a> in 2009. \u201cWe were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9\/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.\u201d With telethons and global hugs, who needs nature or God?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hollywood likes freakish [freakishness], and so do its devotees. Criticizing tattoos, hookups, rap music, or trannies \u2014 saying the wrong thing on Facebook \u2014 might get you into trouble at work or school. Heaven forbid you should offend those who would consider your disapproval \u201chatred,\u201d which entitles them to destroy your career or good name. Or maybe blow you away.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting used to that as well. First-person shooter<\/a> video and computer games allow people to enact murder, not only watch it. That\u2019s part of Hollywood\u2019s multimedia platform too, a franchise worth billions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Media accountants and publicists raise the specter of censorship and the thought police on their way to the bank. In fact, entertainment capitalists have no illusions what they are stirring up and the thrills they provide. New York- and Los Angeles-based wizards know how to stimulate appetites and points of view, and for a price they can do their magic in Washington, D.C. Privately, they exalt [exult] in their power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hollywood doubles down on identity politics. It insists that depravity and imaginary violence do not lead to sociopathic behavior. It professes the product is mere fiction, that it has no real world effect. If you don\u2019t like it, look the other way. You don\u2019t have to buy it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The denizens of HollyWeird love the freakish, the 'transgressive,' the grotesque, and the unnatural. And being leftists, they celebrate losers and screw-ups, from the legendary La La Land 'motorist' Rodney King to the shotgun murderer Tookie Williams. A characteristic of libs and lefties is that in their typical knee-jerk (reflexive as opposed to reflective) style, … Continue reading “Hollywood’s and the Left’s Fascination with Freaks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}