Modern Day Blacklisting
Mar 18, 2019 22:16:16 GMT
Post by gobshite on Mar 18, 2019 22:16:16 GMT
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/modern-day-blacklisting-thoughts.821595/
Gill-man
kronning
thrivingonariff
kronning
No doubt.
socorro
Not Insane
Not Insane
cyclistsb
antoniod
Gill-man
Lately, we’ve seen essentially modern day blacklisting of individuals whose public comments led to public scrutiny. Regardless of what one thinks of of the comments said, is the blacklisting that we’ve seen resulting from it a fair consequence for the action? Should speech prevent an individual from ever making a living again, from supporting a family, or from essentially having a life?
kronning
1984 is here now. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon and others are complicit in banning whatever strikes their fancy. Don't get me started on Fake News.
thrivingonariff
Says the person who is propagating it.
kronning
You and I might going down different rabbit holes. If not complicit, then their algorithms have sure disappeared a lot of things I like to check out.
socorro
Getting fired from a high profile media position because you showed your ass is NOT blacklisting.
Show me a recent equivalent to the HUAC and McCarthy hearings, where artists were involuntarily required to publicly testify under oath about their political beliefs and activities, dating back decades, and to disclose the political beliefs of their family, friends and co-workers (again dating back decades), and were subject to a formal, lockstep employer boycott is they refused, and then we can talk about a modern day blacklist.
Show me a recent equivalent to the HUAC and McCarthy hearings, where artists were involuntarily required to publicly testify under oath about their political beliefs and activities, dating back decades, and to disclose the political beliefs of their family, friends and co-workers (again dating back decades), and were subject to a formal, lockstep employer boycott is they refused, and then we can talk about a modern day blacklist.
Not Insane
History repeats, but never identically. The spirit of exactly what you pointed out above is what was going on with the Kavanaugh hearings.
Not Insane
During the Kavanaugh hearings I publicly apologized to that girl (I forgot her name) that I met cruizing the strip and drove her to a place by the river and tried to get to second base. It took three no's before I stopped. It was in 1970 and I was 16.
Please don't judge me.
Please don't judge me.
cyclistsb
I'd chime in but this forum is also one of those places that bans any thoughts outside the narrow guidelines of political correctness.
antoniod
Scandal aside, there IS a blacklist of not-star conservative actors going on, and it's worse than the 50s HUAC/Red Channels blacklist. Actors and writers in the 50s were blacklisted over actual political associations, either actual Communist Party membership or front groups, at a time when the Soviet Union had particularly malign intentions toward the US(though many blacklistees evaded that issue, claiming to have been innocent liberals who were victimized only because they wanted to do good). But conservatives aren't taking orders, directly or indirectly, from a hostile foreign power-they just don't agree with the Hollywood Elite!