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Moonhead -> RE: Are you a draft dodger in the Culture War? Do you care about an actor's political beliefs? (9/15/2010 5:13:06 AM)
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If people are blackballing actors over political beliefs, maybe they just aren't going far enough?
There's plenty of dead actors who are politically dodgy, after all. Why should John Wayne (a thoroughly reactionary type who proagandised for vietnam) or Errol Flynn (who was notoriously rather taken with Germany's nazi party) get let off purely for having stopped breathing?
In fact, just stopping with actors, and ignoring the rest of pop culture seems a bit half hearted. There's plenty of pop bands, writers and artists with strong ideological axes to grind, and unlike most actors, this is often made completely blatant in their work. Just listen to Rush's 2112, and then try to argue that they aren't queer for Ayn Rand, to pick an obvious example. The libertarian element on here are probably a lot more taken with them, and the fact that they spent most of their '70s interviews giving mad props to Rand, than the lefties. (I'd say that the lefties probably like U2 a bit more than the objectivist element do, but hopefully everybody thinks they're a dreadful band fronted by a self righteous wanker and avoids...)
And that's without even getting started on prose fiction. There are Marxists SF writers who refuse to even discuss Robert Heinlein or the people who've spent lengthy careers shitting out third rate pastiches of his work from the '50s. Equally, there's a lot of left leaning horror writers who are happy to cite HP Lovecraft as an influence, despite finding his racism, anti semitism and vile attitude towards women offputting.
Actors, on the other hand, spend their careers parrotting lines somebody else has scripted and trying to look like they mean it. Who gives a shit what they think about anything?
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