{"id":1959912,"date":"2023-06-28T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T01:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-growing-list-of-celebrities-pushing-past-hollywoods-thought-police\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T21:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T01:51:45","slug":"the-growing-list-of-celebrities-pushing-past-hollywoods-thought-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-growing-list-of-celebrities-pushing-past-hollywoods-thought-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Defying Hollywood&#8217;s Thought Police"},"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\">10<\/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%2Fthe-growing-list-of-celebrities-pushing-past-hollywoods-thought-police%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=1959912&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--><h2>Hollywood Groupthink: Breaking the Mold<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood groupthink is even more pervasive than we think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sure, the industry has plenty of libertarian and conservative denizens, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-growing-list-of-celebrities-pushing-past-hollywoods-thought-police\/\" title=\"Celebrities Defying Hollywood's Thought Police\">vast majority stay whisper-silent<\/a> lest those views damage their careers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most stars happily toe the progressive party line, thinking it may help their job prospects or because they\u2019re true believers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A sprinkling of stars has been slowly, but surely tip-toeing off the progressive plantation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The following artists won\u2019t be pulling the lever for former President Donald Trump or even Governor Ron DeSantis anytime soon. Still, they are speaking out, betraying the unofficial talking points of their ideological peers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More, please. We need independent artists sharing independent thoughts. And it might start with<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ice Cube.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Ice Cube: Challenging the Status Quo<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rapper-turned-actor\/director is reliably left of center, including his support for reparations for black Americans historically mistreated by Hollywood. He doesn\u2019t align with any firm progressive playbook, though. We learned that when he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ice-cube-worked-with-trump-admin-on-platinum-plan-for-black-americans-trump-advisor-says-rapper-responds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">exchanged visions with the Trump team<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on his plans for black America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, Ice Cube is targeting the culture\u2019s \u201cgatekeepers.\u201d He promised a tour, of sorts, of podcasters from all walks of life to work around existing roadblocks that limit debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People \u201cknow who [the gatekeepers] are,\u201d the artist said. Left unsaid? We also know they\u2019re religiously left of center, and that\u2019s an understatement.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018So what am I going to do to deal with those motherf***ing gatekeepers? Well, what I\u2019m going to do is go on a f*** the gatekeepers podcast tour \u2026 and I\u2019m going to talk to everybody. And get a chance to get my message out to the people. Be able to let people hear from me, you know.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Podcast giant Adam Carolla shared on Twitter that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamcarolla\/status\/1673913113719226368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he\u2019s already made contact<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with Camp Cube.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Oscar Winners Questioning the Narrative<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oscar winners <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim Robbins and Mark Rylance<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> bucked the Hollywood system, which followed every last letter of the Lockdown Playbook\u2122, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by questioning pandemic overreach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robbins opened up last year about his mixed feelings on COVID, admitting he fell for the media and government lines that we all had to stay home and accept mandatory doses of a newly-developed vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI bought into it,\u201d the \u201cBull Durham\u201d star told podcaster Russell Brand. Then, he started to do his own investigating on the subject. He came to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liberal-oscar-winning-actor-says-he-flipped-during-pandemic-defends-unvaxxed-anti-lockdown-supporters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">radically different conclusions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that didn\u2019t involve silencing speech or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-refused-to-hand-over-important-data-when-world-health-organization-investigated-origins-of-coronavirus\/\" title=\"China Refused To Hand Over Important Data When World Health Organization Investigated Origins Of Coronavirus\">shuttering small businesses<\/a> by default.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I noticed a lot of people were not adhering again to these requests made by their government. I thought, well, they\u2019re going to have a hard day coming up, that there will be some serious death here \u2026. When I saw that there wasn\u2019t a huge death rate, after I witnessed personally what was happening, I started to wonder more and more about what we were being told and whether it was true or not.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBridge of Spies\u201d star Rylance came to a similar realization. The 63-year-old actor, known for his progressive activism, said he took a \u201cdistilled garlic solution\u201d daily, along with Vitamin C, until he was forced to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12231977\/Actor-Sir-Mark-Rylance-admits-used-garlic-solution-instead-Covid-vaccine-lockdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get the jab to visit family stateside.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> What drove his hesitation?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Science started to sound like a religion. And really science is no different than religion, just an attempt by men to describe reality.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Challenging the Narrative: Comedy and Free Speech<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Woody Harrelson took a more confrontational approach to pandemic mania. He used his monologue time on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d earlier this year to question the vaccine mandates with humor and a sense of mischief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He brought up an alleged movie plot he turned down for one big reason. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/woody-harrelson-said-he-wasnt-fazed-by-backlash-from-snl-monologue-i-dont-look-at-that-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was too crazy to be true.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the movie goes like this: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/based-woody-harrelson-ridicules-covid-drug-cartels-and-lockdowns-on-snl\/\" title=\"\u2018Based\u2019 Woody Harrelson Ridicules COVID \u2018Drug Cartels\u2019 And Lockdowns On \u2018SNL\u2019\">biggest drug cartels<\/a> in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes. And people can only come out if they take the cartel\u2019s drugs and keep taking them over and over. I threw the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It might be the most rebellious \u201cSNL\u201d moment since a 2017 sketch dubbed \u201cWoke Jeans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Defying Woke Hollywood: Jennifer Lawrence<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another core tenant of woke Hollywood is the war on comedy. You\u2019re not allowed to criticize the Thought Police\u2019s impact on humor lest you be canceled (or forced to give a mewling, hostage-style apology). Jennifer Lawrence poked the woke bear anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oscar winner, while promoting her quasi-raunchy film \u201cNo Hard Feelings,\u201d defended both the film and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/global\/jennifer-lawrence-no-hard-feelings-1235650439\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hunger for R-rated comedies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the kind Hollywood abandoned over the risk of bruised feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think it\u2019s time for a good old-fashioned laugh and it really is hard to make a comedy where you\u2019re not offending people \u2026 everybody in some sense will be offended by this film \u2014 you\u2019re welcome.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The film over-performed box office predictions by $5 million in its opening frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a sad state of affairs when we must celebrate stars thinking for themselves, ever so slightly, and for sharing their thoughts with the public. It\u2019s the new, unhealthy normal, and bold thinkers deserve some sort of praise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HollywoodInToto.com<\/a>.\u00a0He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News\u2019 Big Hollywood. Follow him at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollywoodInToto?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HollywoodInToto<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in Hollywood may hold libertarian or conservative views, but they remain silent to protect their careers. The majority conform to the progressive ideology, either to enhance their job opportunities or due to genuine belief. 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