Hollywood Propaganda: How TV, Movies, and Music Shape Our Culture by Mark Dice

Author:Mark Dice [Dice, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Resistance Manifesto
Published: 2020-10-03T07:00:00+00:00

The Biggest Night in Hollywood

The “biggest night in Hollywood” is the Academy Awards where the Oscars are handed out, and for many years celebrities have spewed political nonsense—often about saving the environment or some issue in a third world country, but in the Trump-era, everything is about Trump.

At the 2017 Oscars, held just one month after President Trump’s inauguration, host Jimmy Kimmel called him a racist and insinuated that the entire world now hates America. “I want to say thank you to President Trump,” he said sarcastically. “I mean, remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?” referring to the “Oscars so White” controversy.576

In 2018 Call Me by Your Name was nominated for “Best Picture” which is based on the true story of a 24-year-old man seducing a 17-year-old boy. Hollywood calls that a great “love story.”577

As the Oscars kicked off that year host Jimmy Kimmel gave a shoutout to the actor who played the boy, Timothee Chalamet, saying he is “the star of a small but powerful story, Call Me By Your Name, which did not make a lot of money, in fact, of the nine best picture nominees, only two of them made more than 100 million dollars. But that’s not the point. We don’t make films like Call Me By Your Name for money. We make them to upset Mike Pence.”578 (Vice President Mike Pence is a devoted Christian who doesn’t support same sex “marriage.”)

Then came more White guilt as Black films, Black actors, and Black writers were touted as being the best. At one point Jimmy Kimmel mentioned that the new Black power film Black Panther wouldn’t be included in that year’s awards because it just came out, and then expressed his disappointment that there aren’t more Black superheroes.

“It’s weird that so many superheroes are White because that’s what they were in the comics, right? People say, ‘Well Superman is White. He’s always been White. You know what else Superman has been? Not real!”579 Apparently it’s racist now that Superman is always White in the movies, because he’s White in the comics!

Then two Black women (Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph) came out to present and Maya began, “We are so happy to be here, but a little nervous too, because a few years ago people were saying that the Oscars were so White, and since then some real progress has been made.”580

Tiffany Haddish, who has a voice scratchier than Axl Rose then chimed in, agreeing. “Mmhmm. When we came out together we know some of you were thinking, ‘are the Oscars too Black now?’”

Maya Rudolph replies, “Don’t worry. There’s so many more White people to come tonight.”

“Mhhhmmm. So many! We just came from backstage and there are tons of them back there! And not just movie stars. There are White people walking about with headsets. White people with clipboards. I’m personally not a fan of White people with clip boards because I’m always wondering ‘what are they writing down about me?’”581 The message was clear.

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