Hollywood can't shake its elitism — especially when it comes to free speech

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Hollywood can't shake its elitism — especially when it comes to free speech
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“That’s right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now. It worked for Super Mario. Why not Markwayne?” Mullin, who until last week was a Senator from Oklahoma, took over the family plumbing business when his father became ill.

Kimmel couldn’t help himself. He’s been emboldened after a week-long suspension by ABC last year for incorrectly blaming MAGA for Charlie Kirk’s murder. That punishment turned the far-left host into a First Amendment hero, or so he told anyone who would listen.Kimmel and his A-list pals have vowed to protect free speech from Orange Man Bad. Yet these patriots repeatedly stood down while everyday Americans, including plumbers, saw their speech rights smothered in recent yearsTake The Twitter Files. A trove of behind-the-scenes emails showed how the social media giant censored right-leaning opinions and arguments, some of which it turned out to be true.arguably the most massive attack on free speech in US history.”” in the literary world in the wake of the woke revolution. These censors scour classics by Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, and Ian Fleming, finding “problematic” passages and erasing them to “protect” future generations. Imagine how many fledgling authors have watched their words go down the memory hole because they triggered a hyper-sensitive reader. “Let me decide what I am offended by and not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says ‘abridged due to modern sensitivities.’” “American Dirt” author Jeanine Cummins didn’t have the name recognition of a Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates. Cummins still snagged serious buzz for her 2020 novel, including a salute from book maestro Oprah Winfrey.Then, woke critics decided Cummins wasn’t the right person to write about immigration issues, due partly to her heritage. Death threatsNo Hollywood artists rallied to her side. Winfrey, who initially praised the novel to the heavens, offered muted support. Comedians have been battling speech suppression for years. Sure, we heard about the high-profile attacks on Dave Chappelle for daring to tell trans-themed gags. What about the unknown stand-ups who either lost work for telling the “wrong” jokes, or never uttered them in the first place for fear of public reprisals? They did the same when President Biden promoted Nina Jankowicz as a so-called “disinformation” czar, even though she had claimed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasEven if we take Hollywood’s free speech activism at face value, it’s still missing key battles today.When Britain’s Channel 4 invited Kimmel to give an “alternative” Christmas address late last year, that gave him a chance to skewer that nation’s extreme social media punishments. He could speak out on behalf of everyday British citizens, the ones without a nightly bully pulpit.Stunning verdict delivered in wild Mass. police shooting case Gang-rape victim, 25, whose suicide attempt left her paralyzed, will die by euthanasia after court battleFamilies are fed up with social media — and this week's legal double whammy is just the beginning for companies like Meta Stream It Or Skip It: 'Bait' On Prime Video, Where Riz Ahmed Is A Struggling Actor Who Helps Start A Rumor About Him Being The Next James Bond

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