Far Right Celebrities (1 Viewer)

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Meant to post this when the Scott Adams/Dilbert story broke

Who are far right celebrities that you are aware of?

I think Jon Voight is probably the granddaddy of them all with James Woods not far behind

There's Ted Nugent for sure

Hercules' Kevin Sorbo and Lois & Clark's Dean Cain

Scott Baio had his moment at the RNC, I haven't heard anything from him since

I'd add Kanye West but he more seems to be just losing his mind

I'm pretty sure that Drew Carey, Tim Allen and Kelsey Grammer are conservative Republicans (which is fine) but as far as I know none of them went off the deep end

Roseanne Barr seemed to go full far right

Growing Pains Kirk Cameron is super religious, but I've never heard him comment on anything other than religion (it would just be an assumption that someone that religious is far right)

The pandemic opened the doors to some anti-vax, conspiracy minded celebs which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with politics

Those would include:

Person of Interest's Jim Caviezel
Black Panther Letitia Wright
Lost's Evangeline Lilly

Think of anyone else?

 

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Not possible care less about Kelsey Grammer.

 

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Not possible care less about Kelsey Grammer.

Didn't care about him when those shows were popular. Definitely don't now.

 

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Guess this can go here

I haven’t heard anything political at from him
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Canada hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was already facing a strained relationship with the Canadian public when he emerged from the tunnel at his country’s 4 Nations Face-Off final against the United States in Boston last week.

But that strain reached a full-on breaking point on Thursday night when Gretzky gave an eager thumbs up to the US players and wore no Canadian colors to a game where he was his country’s honorary team captain.

Gretzky’s perceived disloyalty to his home country, where hockey is almost a national religion, may have caused an uproar among Canadians even at the best of times.

But his actions were interpreted by many as traitorous amid heightened nationalism as Donald Trumpthreatens a trade war and muses about making Canada the 51st state.

Regardless of Gretzky’s reputation, some observers say the reactions are proof that many Canadians could be looking for their sports heroes to take a stronger stance on Trump.


“Observers of Canadian hockey look at Wayne Gretzky as essentially an immortal, a god, right? But the truth is, his relationship to the Canadian hockey public has been very different than say it was in 2002,” says Taylor McKee, an assistant professor of sports management at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario.

In 2002, Gretzky was the executive director of Canada’s gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team in Salt Lake City. There he was considered “Mr Canada,” says McKee. Canadians who want that version of him to emerge at a time when there are external threats to the country, were left disappointed by Gretzky, he says.

“They wanted a guy who was willing to stand up there and take bullets for the team,” he says. “Instead, they got the guy they saw essentially as a saboteur, or certainly someone they couldn’t trust.”……..

Et tu, Wayne: Gretzky’s legacy in Canada takes hit over 4 Nations snub

The hockey hero may have torpedoed a once-bulletproof image in Canada by fraternizing with Donald Trump at the worst time imaginable

www.theguardian.com

…….Here is a man who could have used his “soft” power to educate Trump on the inviolability of this country’s sovereignty. Instead, he revealed his true colours (yes, with a “u”) are red, white and blue.

Gretzky was widely booed in pubs that night, slammed as a traitor and a sellout. In the flap that ensued, there were calls to remove his statue from outside Rogers Place in Edmonton.

A few days ago, the statue was smeared with feces. An online petition demanding that the city of Edmonton rename Wayne Gretzky Drive had garnered more than 13,000 signatures as of Wednesday.

Others have expressed outrage that in 2009, when Gretzky was awarded this country’s highest civilian honour, Companion of the Order of Canada, he didn’t bother to come home to collect it. He still hasn’t.

Over these past few weeks and after Trump’s inflammatory pronouncements, has Gretzky made any effort to explain or clarify himself or his beliefs, or defend his homeland?

No, instead he has a) let his buddy Trump, on his social media website Truth Social, offer a tepid defence of Gretzky’s “low-key” support of Canada remaining a separate nation, while b) hiding behind wife Janet’s skirts.

“I have never met anyone who is more proud to be a Canadian, and it has broken his heart to read and see the mean comments,” she said in an Instagram post that has since been deleted.

Nor did it help Gretzky’s cause that among those rushing to his defence was the Canadian-born former NHL-er and fellow Trump disciple Bobby Orr.………

Wayne Gretzky was a Canadian hero. His pro-Trump rebrand is a betrayal

While Trump muses about annexing the US’s neighbor, the NHL star has remained quiet. My fellow Canadians are furious

www.theguardian.com

 

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Kanye poses in a swastika chain with white supremacist Nick Fuentes

The controversial rapper introduced a smiling Fuentes as his ‘white supremacist homeboy’

www.independent.co.uk

Kanye West condemned for wearing black KKK outfit during controversial interview

Condemnation of West for his latest stunt has been swift, with one person on X/Twitter writing: ‘This dude just needs to go away’

www.independent.co.uk