" Barr’s views and her connections to the extreme right are reprehensible, but, as noted above, there is nothing admirable or remotely progressive about Disney’s actions, which will only make her a martyr in the eyes of the paranoid ultra-right. "
Hollywood actors and actresses tend to be erratic and oddly unpredictable by virtue of their often wonderful TALENT alone.
There has been too much over-reaction - on the Left ( mostly pseudo-Left ) - to perceived racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism . " Progressive " should not be the same as neurotically sensitive.
Good manners are always commendable . But it is wrong that talented individuals - in this age of instant social media communication- can be instantly ruined by something just SAID . Something SAID can be quickly UNSAID upon recovering sobriety or your better self.
Unless people CAN speak their true thoughts how can we know just what they do think ? Don't we want to know ?
Do people become less racist , sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic after being ruined and ostracized for something SAID ?
Casual remarks are not the moral and intellectual equivalent of " Mein Kampf " ( still not banned in most public libraries ).
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