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'Uncle Tom' Blacklisted by Hollywood
Townhall.com ^ | January 21, 2021 | Larry Elder

Posted on 01/21/2021 6:57:31 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/21/2021 6:57:31 AM PST by Kaslin
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...to get people to suspend disbelief. ... When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions. That (expletive) fogs the mind when you should be paying attention and be swept into the illusion."

And that is a two-way street.

2 posted on 01/21/2021 7:01:38 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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Uncle Tom is not a racist book, just the opposite.


3 posted on 01/21/2021 7:04:51 AM PST by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Kaslin
they are demeaned by Democratic politicians and either ignored outright or marginalized as race traitors, sellouts and 'Uncle Toms.'

Simply for daring to leave the KKK (Demonrat) Plantation. Remember, Liberals only love minorities if they stay in their proper place in society
4 posted on 01/21/2021 7:06:11 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Funny, that’s exactly how I felt when I was on the set of Armageddon. I was standing next to him when out of nowhere, he threw a hissy fit because someone caused him to wait 2 seconds to start filming. Right then and there I knew these people have no concept of real life. There were other moments, but this one personified that belief.


5 posted on 01/21/2021 7:10:31 AM PST by GMThrust
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So... Ben Affleck wants people to:

-suspend disbelief that some 110lb woman is a ninja who can take down five male opponents at once?

-suspend disbelief that some homosexual is a ladies' man?

-that a tranny born male can be a woman?

-that a soft toad like Ben Affleck would be Batman?

6 posted on 01/21/2021 7:16:26 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He’s way better than Ben Affleck
And now all I can think about is your smile

And that s..... movie too
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you


7 posted on 01/21/2021 7:17:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

Ben who?


8 posted on 01/21/2021 7:19:10 AM PST by bgill (."Salute the Marines")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It is a two way street, with the exception that we have facts to bolster the view on our side, and they utilize emotion to buttress the view on their side.

On their side, facts are completely irrelevant. It is what they feel that is important. What they want.

If I see someone with a Barack Obama or Joe Biden sticker or sign, my impression is that I won’t like them, because they don’t believe our rights come from God, they believe our rights are granted to us by government.

I won’t like them because they don’t believe that wealth can be created (even those that do create wealth) from nothing, they believe wealth can only be obtained if it is taken from someone else.

I could go on, but you get the idea, and we likely agree in any case.


9 posted on 01/21/2021 7:19:26 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Kaslin

I bought “Uncle Tom” when it came out.

Only a ignoramus or a racist could view that as a racist production.


10 posted on 01/21/2021 7:20:38 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Which they have not figured out yet is a big reason why movie attendance was declining even before the bat gazpacho flu.


11 posted on 01/21/2021 7:21:19 AM PST by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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Ben Affleck is literally one of the worst actors I have ever seen ply the trade.

And I don't say that because of his politics. Politically DeNiro, Sean Penn, George Clooney are all far more annoying than him, but they can act.

Affleck always looks like he's struggling to remember the lines he read for the first time two minutes earlier.

12 posted on 01/21/2021 7:25:27 AM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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Here is the official trailer. I haven’t watched the whole documentary, either (my face is red), but I understand that it is very, very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLj-zARCv8


13 posted on 01/21/2021 7:43:12 AM PST by gloryblaze
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14 posted on 01/21/2021 7:43:37 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: dead

Ben Affleck’s only good roles are where he is playing a complete prick, like in “Mallrats”, because then he actually doesn’t have to act at all.


15 posted on 01/21/2021 7:44:42 AM PST by Boogieman
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BM TY


16 posted on 01/21/2021 7:58:04 AM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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He said it perfectly, his words are exactly why I will not watch anything any of his ilk produce or play act in. They are icky human beings.


17 posted on 01/21/2021 8:08:21 AM PST by Pilated (.)
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To: bray

Most actors are not well read or educated. The overpaid A-list are the worst and the biggest communists.


18 posted on 01/21/2021 8:20:11 AM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I will not pay money to see anything he is in. I mostly cannot watch for him freely anything he is in either.

He is a Godless alcoholic who messed up a fairly normal actress.


19 posted on 01/21/2021 8:21:03 AM PST by jrestrepo (Now I am an insurgents. Starve the beast (any way possible) )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Welcome to Hollywood


20 posted on 01/21/2021 8:43:08 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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