Why do you keep minimizing blackballing like this - every - single - time? Kevin Hart should not have to lose this very well paying opportunity
One well-paying opportunity, and yes, he should. An Oscar host is hired because he or she is someone people like, and will bring in good ratings. If a ton of people in the Oscars target demographic don't like the host then they're not going to watch.
Not sure if you realize this, but the theatre and arts community have a very large gay contingent. Why should gay people who might otherwise enjoy watching the Oscars be subjected to a host they know is homophobic? There are a million other people who could have hosted the Oscars and almost all of them are more respectful to that community.
You seem to not understand the difference between punishing someone and not rewarding them.
because people like you cannot seem to handle it that this country, people should not have to choose between remaining silent, keeping their voice and their ideas under wraps, to keep working. Your validation of this method, makes it clear that you don't want him to be a' huge star' at all,
I want him and people like him to stop and think about how their words matter. I want him to learn how a megastar like him bashing homosexuality forwards homophobia and contributes to bullying and violence against gay people. If he shows that he understands that then he can star in all the movies he wants to.
Until then, people who support the LBGTQ community are not going to spend our hard-earned money helping a bigot get famous.
Stop minimizing the dangers of this 'social justice' tactic of yours, weaponizing every working person's livelihoods
Again, Kevin Hart is still famous. He is still a movie star. He still has commercials on TV every day.
Do you think Rosie O'Donnell should be asked to host the Country Music Awards? How about Stephen Colbert? Michelle Wolf?
Do you think any of these people's schtick would go over well in front of that audience?
How about we ask Sinead O'Connor to sing Amazing Grace at the annual meeting of Catholic Priests.
Or maybe we should ask Ted Nugent to play a Hillary Clinton fundraiser?
when they dare to march, to speak out, to tweet, to write a letter to the editor, to even put a sign on their lawn endorsing a view that is controversial or unpopular.
What if the sign said, "I hate N*ggers!"? I mean if you're a racist piece of shit you'd probably not see why that sign is a problem, but any decent human being should know that that person is a racist piece of shit.
So where do we draw the line? When does a person's bigotry become so bigotted that it's okay for companies to decide they don't want to be associated with you? I would say all bigotry is too much bigotry, but I guess some bigotry is fine by you?
It was wrong when it happened to Kevin Hart, to Dixie Chicks, to Earth Kitt, to Burl Ives, or Charlie Chaplin to Lena Horne, Orson Wells.
Are you being ****ing serious right now?
Literally, every person you named here besides Kevin Hart was someone who was canceled decades ago by Conservatives. This is not Cancel Culture. Cancel Culture is the term right-wing asshats came up with when all of a sudden the tables got turned on them.
For most of human history, Gay people had to hide. They had to remain "in the closet" out of fear that their lives would be destroyed if anybody found out they were gay. Hatred of Gay people was so ****ing common nobody even gave it a second thought. Every aspect of who they were was "Cancelled."
It is people like Kevin Hart who continue to popularize homophobia and make it seem normal to shun the gay community.
People like Kevin Hart are being shunned and held accountable because they themselves are unwittingly participating in the "Cancelling" of all gay people everywhere by making them afraid to publicly be who they are.