Posted on 12/09/2018 5:43:14 AM PST by Kaslin
Liberals are now suffering under the heel of the monster they created to attack the rest of us just trying to mind our own business, and it’s a beautiful thing. But it’s also really sad and a sign that things will get much worse for all of us before they get any better.
Most people don’t care about the Oscars. As the ratings have shown, fewer and fewer people each year watch them. This is due, in part, to the fact that the Oscars hold so many of us in contempt – political lectures and condescension are more common in acceptance speeches than thanking a manager.
They also nominate movies based on their left-wing messaging more than their audience appeal. No one wants to sit through a 4-hour lecture celebrating movies about how oppressive, racist, unfair, unjust, nasty, etc., the country is only to be subjected to a 30 second speech reinforcing the same from someone paid more for 3 weeks’ worth of playing make-believe than the average American earns in a year.
If you set out to alienate as many people as possible, you’d be hard-pressed to create a more efficient and effective model than the Oscars have created.
That’s why it was simultaneously hilarious and sad to see what happened this week to Kevin Hart when he was announced as the next host of the program.
In less than a day, comedian Hart went from as high as person who’d just be asked to do something they’d always wanted to do, to resigning and apologizing for things he’d tweeted nearly a decade ago.
Hart did what comedians do – he wisecracked on social media. His “problem” was he used nasty language, words now deemed “homophobic.” He probably shouldn’t have, but mostly because his cracks weren’t funny.
I couldn’t care less about the use of those words, or any words. I make my living using words and grew up in the “Sticks and Stones” school of life. Unfortunately, the idea that “words will never hurt me” is being stuffed in the woodchipper of Social Justice.
The progressive left now preaches the idea that words are violence. This is absurd, of course, but they get a lot of mileage out of the concept from the dimwitted, particularly on college campuses. They aren’t concerned with actual physical violence perpetrated in the name of “tolerance,” but they are willing to raise Hell and destroy anyone who uses words they consider offensive.
While the targets of these outrage mobs have traditionally been conservatives, this mutant army of the professionally offended class they’ve created has been turning on its creators with greater frequency. And Hollywood, after championing this thought purity Gestapo, has seen its share of high-profile scalps claimed by it.
It’s been kind of amusing to watch. Conservatives even got into the act when director of the wildly successful Guardians of the Galaxy movies, James Gunn, was fired when years-old stupid tweets of his were deemed offensive. Of course they were, but so what? We’ve all said offensive things, horrible things, mean and nasty things, usually to our friends. Some of the worst things I’ve ever said were to my friends, all in jest and for a laugh, but if they’d been recorded or tweeted they’d be a Sword of Damocles hanging over my every move, haunting me as I waited for them to be discovered and weaponized to get me fired.
It’s become such an accepted part of our culture now it’s likely to be an Olympic sport in Tokyo 2020.
That’s the real problem, there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop this monster.
I always enjoy when a liberal Frankenstein’s Monster returns to their castle to destroy it – why should they get to set the rules and not have to live by them? But this is a monster that should be destroyed, no matter who it targets.
We can’t take a joke anymore, offensive or not, which makes us all the real joke. None of this ends well.
Kevin Hart’s scalp now sits atop a growing pile of scalps, pointlessly collected in the name of “social justice” or some other stupid, destructive progressive concept. Dismissively pointing out that Hart is a liberal will only give a temporary reprieve from the reality that we’re slowly committing societal suicide, but speeding up a little more every single day. And while the latest scalp is that of a liberal, the next one could be anyone’s. This is why we can’t have nice things. And if we can’t stop this destruction from within, maybe we no longer deserve them.
The last "Oscar" type movie I watched, about 10 years ago, was Rachel Getting Married and let me tell you, I have spent a better two hours at the dentist. That was Hell.
I am inclined to agree with you. Some Blexit friends have been up in arms about this. I let them know that us white folk have been under the heavy P.C. boot for a long time and that one never joked about the protected classes of people. Ask them if they recall Rosanne being fired from her show at abc over a joke? Or that poor young woman razed on stage at a rap concert for singing the lyrics to the song that included the “n” word in it.
You have a bad case of “privileged” if you think “the P.C. rules” don’t apply to your group.
Anyway, I am personally so very happy to be free to say, Merry Christmas!
Thank-you, President Trump!
I think what must eventually happen is that people will start to shy away from social media and it will all go the way of MySpace.
I agree. I thought Franken stole the election and I disagreed with him on every opinion, but I supported him in this.See comment #13 to see the idiocy in your thinking.
Your way of thinking is part of the problem.
Solution? Use the phone for actually speaking to someone for a change.
See the little faggot with the earring and the make up
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire.
Now, what is the punishment for such Blasphemy? On the other side of the Coin, where is the outrage that somebody has decided to censor the work of a Musical Artist?
Remember the screams of horror when Ted Turner “colorized” some old Black and White Movies? I do. BTW- FR Spellcheck doesn't like the word "faggot" either.
> “No one wants to sit through a 4-hour lecture celebrating movies about how oppressive, racist, unfair, unjust, nasty, etc., the country is only to be subjected to a 30 second speech reinforcing the same from someone paid more for 3 weeks’ worth of playing make-believe than the average American earns in a year.”
PRC China.
Backdoor propaganda.
Actor A-Holes will do any sort of gig for that kind of $$$. They be Hos first.
Exactly. There is no standards. Part of any standard should be are the "award nominee films and actors" year to year better than previous award winners. If the answer is negative then leave the Oscar for Best Picture, actor, etc vacant.
Announce on LIVE TELEVISION...There were no films released this year that have met the standard for an Academy Award. The nominees were deficient in X, Y, or Z. For those reasons we are not awarding a prize this year.
Might actually scare the film execs into doing things that people want to see rather than stroke their ego's.
You have five or six turds to choose from.....they are still turds. Why would you award a turd.
That’s good. Sticks and stones is a lesson fairly missing from the current generation. Also, MYOB, Mind Your Own Business—people are so up in everybody else’s business these days they need to sit down shut up and do the right thing. sheeesh. for a change.
Yep, nobody jokes like that. nobody.
Too right. It’s part of the orwellian notion of controlling the masses through control of language. Years ago, speech was defined as “verbal conduct” in order to selectively punish it, and crimes against property and people redefined as “expression,” to forever permit riots and violence from the left.
“Throughout history it[the revolution[ always has eaten its own.”
Well, except ours.
> Why do people fear basement dwelling keyboard komandoes? I can understand how doxing can be a problem, but darned if I would bend over backward for something I said, particularly in jest.
Independently wealthy?
For the rest of us, it’s rather uncomfortable when the crazies who insist on Total Social Conversion are your employer, your boss/manager/whatever, your clients, or other persons whose whim can tank one’s career, income, reputation and potentially freedom (not so much here yet, but ask Tommy Robinson).
I know that’s what happened to me. Once I found out Facebook and the rest were tracking me all the time, I felt they can have everything else but Ill be damned if I’ll give them access to my THOUGHTs.
Correct. We are the exception.
Members of a social bubble are being given “awards” by members of the social bubble. Ultimately they’re worthless in terms of significance. I picture it like forming a “special group” among my neighbors and having us award ourselves trophies for achieving little to nothing.
Geez that’s the best verse. Without that verse the song doesn’t really make sense.
Under the reign of the Ocasio-Cortezes, that will also be monitored for correctspeak. Don’t think it’s not coming; obama started the snowball.
Even as in the larger society, the left has a two tiered system of social justice. While some can be discarded as yesterday’s news, others are forgiven, or at least their misgivings are ignored.
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