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> goes hard core on insulting half the country in every speech What are you referring to?
by tyre 6y ago
> goes hard core on insulting half the country in every speech
What are you referring to?
- kickout 6y agoAssuming you are asking in good faith: I am guessing they are referring to Hollywood generally having a liberal political mindset and many things the left has been championing lately have been upsetting the right. Basically more evidence of our society being hyper-politicized or perceiving it that way.
- Apocryphon 6y agoSometimes it feels like everyone in the past five years have forgotten about the Bush years. The political polarization in pop culture was just as pronounced then, with Fox News attacking Hollywood as antiwar traitors, Hollywood films skewering Evangelicals as fanatics, etc. The culture wars then were just as bitter and seemingly unbridgeable it they are now, we just didn't see it unfolding in realtime yet. Usually you'd have to wait for a pingback from your Blogspot articles first.
- kickout 6y agoMostly true. I remember the Bush years well. I agree the instantaneous feedback of social media was in its infancy or non-existent so there was a modicum of civility to people's arguments/disagreements. The talk radio pundits and cable tv people were probably 1 or 2 level shy of 'extreme' whereas we're 1 or 2 levels _over_ extreme these day--on both sides. I could be misremembering though.
- Apocryphon 6y agoI remember flipping between Free Republic/Pajamas Media and Democratic Underground/DailyKos and just seeing two irrevocably irreconcilable echo chambers. But those forums and blogs were populated by smaller numbers of diehards. Now we’re all in our own echo chambers, it would seem.
- dillondoyle 6y agoRemember the dixie chicks!?! talk about cancel culture ffs
- kokanator 6y agoIt is tiring to watch a show that is supposed to be about entertainment but rather is a 2 hour lecture ( often demeaning ) on liberal politics from a bunch of millionaires patting each other on the back. It bears no distinct difference from turning on say CNN or MSNBC which you can watch any day of the week. Not to mention the shear amount of hypocrisy ( if anyone cares about that ). There is nothing unique or interesting about it.
- specialist 6y agoWhen is speech, art, culture not political?
- kokanator 6y agoWhen does an acceptance speech have nothing to do with the award you are receiving? To say everything is political is an easy out. The point is the awards show is supposed to be about the films and to acknowledge those who made it possible not political speeches given in the guise of an acceptance speech.
- Apocryphon 6y agoThe Oscars have always had this to some degree, though. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/25/before-oscarssowhite-five-previous-academy-awards-controversies https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/25/before-oscarsso...
- mezentius 6y agoOften. Speech, art, and culture do typically encompass politics, because politics are a social activity and therefore a primary concern of the humanities. But the argument that these things are therefore inherently political is specious, and (in my opinion) a product of the increasingly facile approach to the interpretation of art and culture in education that focuses exclusively on the teasing-out of supposed hidden messages and ideologies. (Twitter doesn't help, either.) In mirroring our lives, art and culture encompass layers of complex action and symbols that cannot be reduced to a singular message or call for political action. They are the process by which we sift through an opaque mixture of confusion and contradiction every day, searching for meaning. However, if you wanted to argue that award shows are inherently political, I'd probably agree.