{"id":42433,"date":"2019-08-09T13:08:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42433"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:44:31","slug":"trump-says-hollywood-is-racist-because-of-alleged-bias-against-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42433","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Hollywood is Racist Because of Alleged Bias Against – Conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rise of white supremacy and openly bigoted white nationalist groups has been going on for many years and has intensified since the election of Donald Trump. It’s so obvious that even Trump’s own FBI Director, Christopher Wray, gave congressional testimony warning that homegrown violent terrorism is the single biggest threat<\/a><\/strong> to the country. “A majority of the domestic terrorism cases we’ve investigated,”<\/em> Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tragic confirmation of that was evident in the massacre of innocent people, mainly Latino, in El Paso, Texas, last weekend by an avowed anti-immigrant Trump supporter. But the determination by Trump and the Republican Party to address this problem cannot be taken seriously. Neither Trump, nor his political confederates, have made any substantive effort to mitigate the violence and hatred that flows freely in right-wing circles. On Fox News, host Tucker Carlson actually devoted a segment to his theory that white supremacy is a hoax<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to imagine that any solutions will be forthcoming from the Trump camp considering that he has been the chief spokesperson for the white nationalist movement and that most of their leaders – and followers – have endorsed him. They are his base and he has demonstrated his loyalty as well as his fear of offending them.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump can hardly take a position against racism when he doesn’t even seem to understand what it is. In a response to a reporter’s question on Friday morning about political bias on Twitter, Trump awkwardly twisted his response into an attack on Hollywood. He began with a threat that “We’re gonna be very tough with them.”<\/em> And it just got worse from there (video below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“They’re treating conservatives very unfairly. Hollywood … is really terrible. You talk about racist … Hollywood is racist. What they’re doing with the kind of movies they’re putting out is actually very dangerous for our country. What Hollywood is doing is a tremendous disservice to our country. We have now, in a little while, all of the heads of the biggest companies coming in and we’re gonna talk to them. They treat conservatives, Republicans totally different than they treat others. And they can’t do that.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is representative of the paranoia that Trump and his GOP crybabies commonly exhibit. Everyone is always out to get them: Hollywood, Twitter, Facebook, the press, etc. Any form of media that exercises their First Amendment rights is regarded as dangerous. And their solution is bullying and intimidation. Where Trump gets the idea that he can dictate what Hollywood can and can’t do is pretty obvious. He gets it from his heroes Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, whose unrestricted totalitarian control of their respective countries is something that Trump envies<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What makes Trump’s whining especially disturbing is that he’s flatly asserting that Hollywood is racist because they are allegedly biased against conservatives. What does that even mean? How would a bias against conservatives be racist? Is he suggesting that such a bias is a racial attack because conservatives are predominantly white and, therefore, any discrimination against them is due to anti-whitism?<\/p>\n

Notice that Trump never bothered to provide any examples of the alleged racism he’s accusing Hollywood of engaging in. Perhaps he’s just upset that whenever there’s a racist character in a movie he is portrayed as a villain. Trump would probably like to see some balance where there are some racist heroes on the big screen. That would be consistent with his support for Confederate generals and the statues honoring them.<\/p>\n

See? Trump is just a civil rights advocate who seeks equality for people who hate black and brown Americans. And he’s going to take measures to achieve that end. If it means forcing Hollywood to produce only certain types of movies, so be it. After all, If Vlad and Kim can do it, why not Trump?<\/p>\n

[UPDATE:]<\/strong> Trump posted a couple of tweets on this subject:<\/p>\n

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….to inflame and cause chaos. They create their own violence, and then try to blame others. They are the true Racists, and are very bad for our Country!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n