Hollywood Choked by Wokeness

April 8, 2021 By Janet Levy 

 

At the 78th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2020, host Ricky Gervais savagely roasted Hollywood's woke hypocrisy.  The British actor-comedian said this was the last time he would be hosting the show, so he would fire away with some nothing-to-lose sarcasm.  He joked about Felicity Huffman — who got a 14-day jail term plus a fine and community service for bribing an SAT proctor to boost her daughter's scores — designing the license plate of the limo that ferried him to the gala; about sex offenders Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein; and about Hollywood's protracted, politicized acceptance speeches.  The reactions of many in the audience — including actor Tom Hanks's priceless display of restrained apoplexy and discomfiture — were later meme-ified across the internet.

But what was really important was that Gervais drove home points about Hollywood's sham wokeness, a sickening obsession that threatens to deep-six entertainment.  Apple, Amazon, Disney — he spared none: "Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China.  

Well, you say you're woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable.  Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?"  And he punctured many an inflated ego, saying, "So if you do win an award tonight, don't use your platform to make a political speech.  You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.  You know nothing about the real world."

Indeed.Ruled by the messages of leftists and social justice warriors, whose beliefs have long informed the culture of political correctness, Hollywood — like the community of political insiders designated "the swamp" — is out of touch with the American public and with reality.  The frequent injection of woke points of view into scripts makes them unrepresentative of the life experiences of the masses.  But to protect jobs or careers and to avoid being canceled, writers and other entertainment professionals hide any conservative leanings and toe the ideological line.  Hollywood's political donations go almost exclusively to Democrats and Democrat-leaning political action committees and organizations........To Read More....