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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBe intolerant of intolerance:John Irving urges Hollywood to skip Oscar protocol and call Trump out
RawstoryNovelist John Irving went after President Donald Trump on Monday, and called on Oscar-winning actors to get political with their acceptance speeches on Feb. 26. Irving targeted Trump specifically because of his anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion rights stances in an article for the Hollywood Reporter. He also referred to Trumps early anti-Muslim travel and immigration ban as bigoted racial profiling.
Irving won an Oscar in 2000 for best adapted screenplay of his novel The Cider House Rules, and pointed to his acceptance speech, in which he thanked Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL Pro-Choice America) to then question the protocol for acceptance speeches.
In his essay, Irving calls for more of what he calls outright bias at the Oscars. Examine the outright bias of President Trump; consider the sexual dinosaur that Vice President Pence is, he wrote. Pence believes in conversion therapy for homosexuals; he was among the first to propose defunding Planned Parenthood. In Trumps administration, LGBT and abortion rights are in danger.
He noted that whatever protocol may have ever existed in regards to Oscars speeches, the current presidential administration should be a sign of a need for change. Be intolerant of intolerance, Irving wrote, explaining that concept as an obligation of the creative community.
Irving ends his essay with a final call to the creative community at the Oscars. Tolerance of intolerance is unacceptable, he wrote, adding, President Trumps intolerance is glaring. Trump isnt worrying about presidential protocol.
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Be intolerant of intolerance:John Irving urges Hollywood to skip Oscar protocol and call Trump out (Original Post)
Jimbo101
Feb 2017
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JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)1. I think many will speak out against the pussygrabber nt
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)2. I hadn't really thought about it
but I think a lot of people will speak out this year.
mopinko
(70,215 posts)3. obligation of the creative community
one we creative feel deeply. we have the brain parts that the deplorables dont. our place in the long rise of civilization has been to show it to those who cant see it.
it's what artists do.
looking forward to the evening.