Just before Christmas a website entitled “Heavi” posted a video featuring several celebrities refusing to cower before the politically correct innuendos of their interviewers. It is entitled: “Celebrities Shutting Down Agenda Driven Interviews.” While the site apparently has over 200,000 followers, I have been unable to find any mention of it online. Could the fact that it is itself “politically incorrect” have anything to do with this?
Jerry Seinfeld is asked why his show did not feature more people of colour. “Oh, this really pisses me off,” he answers, saying that comedy rather than meeting the statistical demands of woke simpletons glued to their calculators, was his main priority.
Impugned by his white, male interviewer for the use of the N Word in his movie “Django Unchained,” Samuel L. Jackson challenges him to say that word out loud. Fearing he will be vilified by the woke Left, the man refuses to do so. Jackson is flabbergasted that we live in an absurd era where the utterance of two syllables, even by one who is sympathetic to the plight of Blacks, fills him with the fear that he might be cancelled [i.e., fired] for his “indiscretion.”
To an interviewer who seems convinced that America is “systemically” racist, Denzel Washington responds: “It’s not colour, it’s culture.” While certainly not denying that racism continues to be a factor in his country’s dynamic, he insists that Blacks are under-represented in certain socioeconomic realms because they’re simply not interested in being there. It is an obvious truth yet one rarely approached in rants descrying America as a hotbed of racial injustice.
In an interview with Don Lemon, Morgan Freeman attempts to make the same point. To Lemon’s suggestion that it is still very difficult for Blacks to prosper in America, he points out the irony of the fact that they are both extremely wealthy. And while Lemon seems pleased with the concept of a Black History Month, Freeman suggests it actually exacerbates the cancer of Racism by stupidly reducing the complexities of history to the simple matter of skin colour. For many Blacks everything is about Race, Race, Race!
In an interview on Fox Sports, Rapper Lil Wayne responded to the insinuation that his rise to success must have been fraught with multiple examples of racial intolerance, by stating emphatically that he had never encountered any sort of racism whatsoever. That he has, to use his word, been “blessed,” does not mean that all others of his complexion have been equally so. But it does expose the absurdity of the idea that the vast majority of White Americans are racists!
Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, was questioned about the “long leash” he had granted his fighters in allowing them to express their sometimes controversial political opinions. He was appalled by a metaphor that reduced people to dogs, appalled by the suggestion that it was his right to legislate their beliefs. It’s about Free Speech, he insisted, over and over again.
Several individuals who had appeared on The View and taken exception to the loaded questions posed them, were included in the “Heavi” video. Each of Kurt Russell, Tim Allen and Matthew McConaughey, for example, challenged the assumption that their deviation from the “woke” opinions of Whoopi and co. necessarily made them racists, misogynists, homophobes, etc.. Their willingness to flout the inanities of what has become the dominant, oppressive Ideology of our day, led me not to deplore their inhumanity but to admire their courage. Indeed it reminded me of a video posted by a site called “Woke Central” which, a few days before Christmas, celebrated Clint Eastwood’s lifelong refusal to succumb to the popular opinions of the day by asserting his constitutional Right to Freedom of Thought and Speech.
Now 94, Eastwood recently granted an interview to Esquire Magazine in which he focused on the pathetic state of our contemporary culture, a culture which, inasmuch as it mindlessly panders to the whining of every group and individual claiming to have been victimized, has made Whining rather than Rational Self-Awareness the modus operandi of vast portions of our population. Those “intellectuals,” journalists and politicians who pander to even the criminal behaviour of that demographic are, he says, little more than “kiss-ass” simpletons who spend their lives “walking on eggshells.” While his phrasing may be offensive to many, he makes a perfectly valid point. Rational discussion of the issues that separate the Left from the Right today are virtually impossible given the Left’s decline into the absurdity of Identity Politics. Eastwood and the various other individuals cited above, several of whom are Black, are not villains in my estimation, but heroes for having the courage to speak their minds in spite of the possible repercussions from the dictatorial Left.