Far Right Celebrities (4 Viewers)

[Optimus Prime]

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?

 

[LA - L.A.]

There’s a new shirt I’ve seen for sale about the Salem witch trials. It says “They didn’t burn witches, they burned women” on the front and the back is a long list of when women got the right to do various things. Some of them surprised me, I thought it was earlier for those milestones.

Like the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Suffrage movement happened way to recently than it should have. Women have only had the right to vote for only 41.94% of the existence of our country. Haven't even made it to the have way point yet.

104 years is about 4 generations within a family which means most of us knew women who were alive at a time they did not have the right to vote and didn't have other rights either.

 

[LA - L.A.]

I’m half surprised Jones isn’t selling a pill or cream guaranteed to prevent sleep demon attacks

Wait for it...

 

[Nebaghead]

There’s a new shirt I’ve seen for sale about the Salem witch trials. It says “They didn’t burn witches, they burned women” on the front and the back is a long list of when women got the right to do various things. Some of them surprised me, I thought it was earlier for those milestones.

They didn’t burn anyone at the Salem witch trials. They hung all of them but one guy who was crushed to death with stones on his front door placed on his chest. My wife and I were just in Salem. In Europe they burned women for witchcraft.
The whole history is tragic and comes from racism, misogyny and likely greed considering the father of one of the girls was a large landowner and conveniently some of the accusers had large parcels of land. If found guilty you lost all your property.

 

[SamAndreas]

I’m half surprised Jones isn’t selling a pill or cream guaranteed to prevent sleep demon attacks

I'm half convinced that Jones is the sleep demon who's been making those attacks.

 

[SamAndreas]

Like the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Suffrage movement happened way to recently than it should have. Women have only had the right to vote for only 41.94% of the existence of our country. Haven't even made it to the have way point yet.

104 years is about 4 generations within a family which means most of us knew women who were alive at a time they did not have the right to vote and didn't have other rights either.

Both of my grandmothers, most if not all of my great aunts.

I remember folks talking about it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

They didn’t burn anyone at the Salem witch trials. They hung all of them but one guy who was crushed to death with stones on his front door placed on his chest. My wife and I were just in Salem. In Europe they burned women for witchcraft.
The whole history is tragic and comes from racism, misogyny and likely greed considering the father of one of the girls was a large landowner and conveniently some of the accusers had large parcels of land. If found guilty you lost all your property.

I know history is full off stuff like that but if they didn’t burn anyone in Salem his did the whole “burn her at the stake” thing come about and become commonly accepted as fact?

It has to be something more than that’s what they did in Europe

 

[LA - L.A.]

They didn’t burn anyone at the Salem witch trials. They hung all of them but one guy who was crushed to death with stones on his front door placed on his chest.

Giles Corey is one of the most overlooked heroes. "More weight."

"Giles Corey (bapt.Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After being arrested, Corey refused to enter a guilty or not guilty plea. He was subjected to torture in the form of crushing in an effort to force him to plead, dying after three days of being crushed. Because Corey refused to enter a plea, his estate passed on to his sons instead of being seized by the Massachusetts colonial government."​

Giles Corey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The whole history is tragic and comes from racism, misogyny and likely greed considering the father of one of the girls was a large landowner and conveniently some of the accusers had large parcels of land. If found guilty you lost all your property.

It's such a horrible rinse and repeat throughout history. Some greedy dudes want something other people have, so they prey on people's fears, which is where bigotry comes from, to run a grift that involves whipping people into a frenzy to kill the evil/dangerous/subhuman "others," so they can steal there stuff after they are dead. This is the dynamic that's driven almost every human rights violation throughout the entirety of human history.

 

[SamAndreas]

This is a something else thread. A thread that seems like a camping trip where we all tell scary stories at night around a sagebrush fire, with spooky sounds coming from the mouth of the arroyo.