Many Twitter users press the “publish” button knowing their thoughts could get them kicked off the platform.
Or worse.
Just Google the names “Roseanne Barr” and “Justine Sacco” for Exhibits A and B.
Liberal celebrities don’t have that fear. They can say almost anything on the social media platform knowing they’ll skirt its rules of conduct. Their Hollywood bosses won’t hold them accountable, either.
But here’s the catch. Their bile targets conservatives.
Ellen Barkin wished death on President Donald Trump without a whiff of punishment, and she’s not alone. Bette Midler cheered violence against a GOP senator, repeatedly, and faced no blowback from Twitter or her Hollywood employers.
Samuel L. Jackson, the most recent example of this liberal privilege.
It is the most admired Avengers star slammed Justice Clarence Thomas over the weekend for helping overturn Roe v. Wade.
Two fronts are attacked by the tweet. It hearkens back to the “Uncle Tom” slur that haunts black Americans to this day. The term, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, describes blacks who betray their own people and interests.
It was intended to unite white citizens against slavery’s horrors. But the character of “Uncle Tom” has become synonymous with servility and self-hatred.
Jackson’s duplicitous character in Django Unchained echoed those themes.
Some progressives believe that any black American leaning to the Right is betraying his or her people. They’re not allowed to disagree with the Democratic platform. Larry Elder made “Uncle Tom” about this toxic trend, and he’s planning a sequel to be released soon.
The Hitman’s Bodyguard star also suggested Thomas would overturn “Loving v. Virginia” which allowed interracial marriage. Thomas has been married to Ginni Thomas (who is also white).
This two-pronged attack could have serious repercussions if the sides were reversed. As is, Jackson’s Tweet earned modest coverage with zero outrage from mainstream journalists.
Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, thought differently.
Jackson’s racially charged attack on a black conservative is hardly new.
Two years ago, rapper/actor Snoop Dogg attacked black conservatives as “coons” via an Instagram post. This message included photos of Candace Owens and Herman Cain, among others.
There was no outrage by the media or the NAACP, which would normally be furious at any racially charged attack on black Americans. The post came during the George Floyd protest frenzy, a time when progressives demanded police reform and removed sitcom episodes with blackface moments.
The rapper’s post got ignored by this community.
Liberal privilege is very real, and its existence proves the woke “outrage” we often see in the cultural is performative at best.
[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto.]
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