{"id":1404880,"date":"2022-03-28T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404880"},"modified":"2022-03-28T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T17:16:17","slug":"openly-queer-is-not-a-thing-and-other-thoughts-on-the-depraved-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/openly-queer-is-not-a-thing-and-other-thoughts-on-the-depraved-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Openly Queer\u2019 Is Not A Thing, And Other Thoughts On The Depraved Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopenly-queer-is-not-a-thing-and-other-thoughts-on-the-depraved-oscars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404880&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Will Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/28\/is-praise-for-will-smith-woke-hypocrisy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">physically assaulted a man<\/a> during Sunday night\u2019s Academy Awards ceremony, yet that was probably the least bizarre thing to happen all night.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s truly weird is that Smith, in the presence of our most virtue-signaling elites, wasn\u2019t escorted from the premise in handcuffs. Indeed, after he struck comedian Chris Rock across the face on stage, he returned calmly to his seat, enjoyed the rest of the evening, and even got a round of applause as he accepted an Oscar for \u201cBest Actor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So much for \u201ctoxic masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that the entire event is a joke is simply taken for granted anymore. How could anyone take it seriously when the very first award winner, an attractive, able-bodied actress named Ariana DeBose, portrayed herself as a victim of sorts by identifying as \u201can openly queer woman of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media, naturally, bought the gimmick, with headlines referring to DeBose as \u201cthe first openly queer actor of color to win an Oscar\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ariana-debose-best-supporting-actress-history-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS<\/a>) and \u201cAriana DeBose makes history as first Afro Latina, openly queer actor of color to win Oscar\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/ariana-debose-makes-history-first-afro-latina-openly-queer-actor-color-rcna21365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The boring truth is that DeBose is just a Hispanic and a lesbian. Unfortunately for her, those two categories have already seen Oscar nominations and wins. \u201cQueer,\u201d by the way, is not a real thing because it means whatever anyone wants it to mean, which means it means nothing. (Even the liberal Human Rights Campaign nonprofit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrc.org\/resources\/glossary-of-terms?utm_source=GS&#038;utm_medium=AD&#038;utm_campaign=BPI-HRC-Grant&#038;utm_content=454854043839&#038;utm_term=list%20of%20lgbt%20terms&#038;gclid=CjwKCAjwuYWSBhByEiwAKd_n_qC94lyQE2eP5nbzCophX6B0rtYKFo7wX3ZgaVFapRlLv4Yn2e8eChoCXtYQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> the word is \u201ca catch-all to include many people.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t make history. Her award also wasn\u2019t for anything original. It was for her role in the remake of \u201cWest Side Story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trying to make something sound new when everyone knows its old is desperate and cringey. But this is the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, is anyone going to state the obvious that Beyonce, who screamed a song at the start of the show, hasn\u2019t been interesting or fun for the better part of the last decade now? Her performance was a microwaved serving of the same routine she\u2019s been doing since 2013, placing herself in front of an all-black squad of dancers and instrumentalists, all of them in braids and natural afros, a symbol of black empowerment. (Curiously, Beyonce herself tosses her head to flash the striking blonde highlights of her perfectly straight front-lace.)<\/p>\n<p>She did it at the Super Bowl. It\u2019s the backdrop of her entire 2019 Netflix hagiographic documentary \u201cHomecoming.\u201d Her most recent full body of work \u201cLemonade\u201d is a visual album expressly about black empowerment (when it\u2019s not about black oppression).<\/p>\n<p>Zzz\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But again, this is what is now expected of the Oscars and virtually every other entertainment award ceremony. Still, though, it really is shocking that a man violently struck a comedian on the face, and no one at the event said a word.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith physically assaulted a man during Sunday night\u2019s Academy Awards ceremony, yet that was probably the least bizarre thing to happen all night. What\u2019s truly weird is that Smith,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}