It is not considered a severe problem in this country until we have the luminary set in this country weigh in on it. Severe, that is, according to the self-important celebrities who feel the need to rise and tell us how to comport our lives. The latest is the squabble over censorship, an issue claimed to be more trenchant than reality would show it to be.
In this latest outrage, it stems from the overblown controversy involving late-night (alleged) comedian Jimmy Kimmel, placed into what amounted to no more than a four-night timeout. The ABC Network decided to suspend Kimmel for a few days, while many on the left portrayed this as firm muscle applied by President Trump over his intolerance for a critical voice. This approach gets sidetracked by reality; it actually concerns comments made about Charlie Kirk, and Kimmel has been acerbic towards Trump for nearly a decade now.
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Yet Kimmel has returned. So we are supposed to get all worked up about the censoring of someone who is currently seen on the public airwaves. I am at a loss as to what it is we are supposed to be energized to do.
Regardless of accuracy, Hollywood has now announced it will no longer tolerate the silencing of vital voices. Or, in the case of Kimmel, even those that are far from vital. In an effort spearheaded by longtime activist actress Jane Fonda, we see that there is a relaunch of the Red Scare-era organization, The Committee for the First Amendment. That is a group originally formed to battle back against the McCarthy efforts to target and silence communist voices, and now Hollywood is operating with the insistence that “Those forces have returned.”
Sure they have. This letter alleges that we are now in a time where censorship and the silencing of voices are seen on the regular. If we were to believe this missive, at every turn, there are efforts to eliminate our rights to free expression.
The federal government is once again engaged in a coordinated campaign to silence critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, academia, and the entertainment industry. We recognize that we represent just one group of many who are under threat right now. Across classrooms, libraries, factories, companies and workplaces of all kinds, Americans of every walk of life are facing intimidation and censorship too — and we stand with them.
Uh huh. And just how will these vaunted names preserve our First Amendment?! By umm…well, they boldly and bravely signed a letter. The funnier part is that this letter has plenty of words, but ultimately says very little.
Nothing in this proclamation says they will actively DO anything. This is little more than a statement saying they don’t like stuff. “We refuse to stand by and let that happen.” Great, but we get nothing in the form of activity of any kind. The ultimate sign of anything taking place is “We will stand together.”
Okay, that’s something, we have to guess. Literally, that is the entire thrust of this letter, and over 550 artists have signed on to it, we have to guess, to stand together. Great. That should stop whatever imagined threat you are standing to block, is the assumption.
This stern posturing is made all the more impotent by the fact that we heard no such melodramatics from this crowd over the past few years when Joe Biden’s White House was actively silencing voices in the country. He was directing Twitter to shut down voices they disapproved of on that platform. Last week, Google announced the Biden administration was behind YouTube deplatforming thousands of accounts.
Tellingly, these bold crusaders for free expression were not heard from regarding those moves. But, far be it from us to try silencing these folks. Go ahead, feel free to bleat and moan, you have a First Amendment right to declare publicly that you oppose something – and to do nothing more than to stand together and not like that something.
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