China to Hollywood: Don't Say Gay
By Tony Perkins | April 14, 2022 | 5:25pm EDT
The Left doesn't mind when China controls the conversation, but they sure care when American parents do. That's the incredible hypocrisy of the Florida law hysteria. Woke CEOs are pitching a fit that states want to silence talk of sex and gender for kindergarteners, but if China wants to censor it? One entertainment group says: no problem.
It's the irony of ironies. Warner Brothers, in a sequel to its "Fantastic Beasts" spin-off, decided to add some gay undertones to Albus Dumbledore's character. When China found out about the unnecessary addition of an LGBT relationship, they asked producers to cut it. Hollywood, ever the compliant partner of the communist regime, obliged.
"We want audiences everywhere in the world to see and enjoy this film," a Warner spokesperson said, "and it's important to us that Chinese audiences have the opportunity to experience it as well, even with these minor edits."
In other words, it's okay for a global abuser of human rights to demand an end to LGBT indoctrination, but not American parents? If China says sexualization is off limits, it's "responding sensitively to a variety of in-market factors." If parents do, it's a "hateful" "form of bullying" that hurts children. No wonder the grassroots are upset.
"This double standard -- Republican governors can't make reasonable and popular policy changes in this country, but the Chinese government's whims must be respected, even if they violate progressive pieties -- is untenable," National Review's Jack Butler argues. And yet, the Left is only digging in, accusing Republicans of reigniting the culture wars for political gain.
"They just kept pivoting until they could find the thing that they thought would capture the public's imagination and turn them against LGBTQ equality..." the Human Rights Campaign complained to the New York Times. "They've cared about women's sports for exactly as long as it was politically expedient."
Wait a minute, most parents would say. Republicans didn't pick this fight. They didn't send their government attack dogs after Title IX or demand taxpayer funding for children's sex changes. They didn't fire off executive orders opening our daughters' locker rooms and teams to the opposite sex. Or infiltrate classrooms with science-denying lessons on sex and gender and offer LGBT erotica in school libraries. Democrats did that. If this is a "political opening" for Republicans, as the Times argues, then it's because the majority of America agrees with them.
"At the end of the day," the Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olohan said on "Washington Watch," "this is about children and there are many political issues that Americans will disagree over on both sides of the aisle, be it the border wall or abortion. But when it comes to your children, parents are a lot more unified, I think, in [wanting] to be able to control what your children are being taught."
And the ferocious pushback to Disney, the public schools, Hollywood, and any woke corporation telling parents to butt out of child-rearing is a prime example of that. The Left is spinning its wheels, desperate to find traction for an agenda that's wildly unpopular across almost every demographic. Right now, 68 percent of Americans are less likely to do business with Disney for trying to sexualize Florida's K-3 classes -- and that includes almost 50 percent of Democrats!
Obviously, Olohan shook her head, "This is not a message that [is resonating] with Americans." And yet, Democrats -- taken hostage by their woke fringe -- refuse to back away, sounding more desperate and tone-deaf by the minute. "If you look at what happened in Virginia," she went on, "we were in sort of the same situation during the gubernatorial election -- where a lot of people thought that Terry McAuliffe would kind of skate into the governor's seat as a Democrat. And then amidst all of this talk about education, he had to go and say that parents didn't have the right to decide what their children should be taught. Well, that pretty much won the election for Governor Youngkin. And so we're seeing this translated across the country as parents kind of speak up, finally. [It's] a parental rebellion against woke ideology."
Disney -- and Democrats in general -- need to see the handwriting on the wall and back down, or else these midterm elections will be the beginning of the wilderness years for the president's party. As more parents are starting to realize, whether it's education or entertainment, there's no middle ground on extremism.
Tony Perkins is president of Family Research Council.
Warner Bros Cuts Gay Dialogue From Harry Potter-Dumbledore Movie at Request of Communist Chinese
By Michael W. Chapman | April 13, 2022 | 4:36pm EDT
Although Hollywood relishes promoting homosexuality through its movies, Warner Bros. recently kow-towed to Communist Chinese authorities and deleted references to a gay relationship in its new Harry Potter film, Fantastic Beasts: the Secrets of Dumbledore, reported Variety.
The deletion of six seconds of dialogue apparently was necessary for the movie to be shown in China.
In the book series, the character Dumbledore was revealed to be gay in 2009. In the movie series, however, his sexual choice was not disclosed until near the end of this latest film.
The dialogue that was cut reads “because I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love," and occurs when Dumbledore (Jude Law) is speaking with Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen).
"Warner Bros. accepted China’s request to remove six seconds from the movie," reported Variety. "The rest of the film remained intact, including an understanding that Dumbledore and Grindelwald share an intimate bond."
In a statement sent to Variety, Warner Bros said, “As a studio, we’re committed to safeguarding the integrity of every film we release, and that extends to circumstances that necessitate making nuanced cuts in order to respond sensitively to a variety of in-market factors."
“Our hope is to release our features worldwide as released by their creators but historically we have faced small edits made in local markets," said the studio.
“In the case of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, a six-second cut was requested and Warner Bros. accepted those changes to comply with local requirements," said Warner Bros. “We want audiences everywhere in the world to see and enjoy this film, and it’s important to us that Chinese audiences have the opportunity to experience it as well, even with these minor edits.”
China, with a population of 1.4 billion people, is a massive marketplace for Hollywood. The regime, however, is still totalitarian. It has killed more than 65 million of its own people for political reasons since 1950, according to The Black Book of Communism.
Today, the communist regime operates concentration camps where a reported 1.5 million Uyghurs are held. There are numerous reports of torture, rape, execution, and the harvesting of body parts from the camps. In addition, Christians and other religious are constantly harassed and persecuted by Chinese authorities.
Discovery’s Earth Day Lineup Features Climate Hypocrites Matt Damon, Jane Fonda
Discovery+ has revealed its Earth Day programming lineup, which features climate change hypocrites Matt Damon and Jane Fonda.
Discovery+’s Earth Day programming slate, which will air April 15-24, features “content that celebrates the exploration and conservation of our planet and the inspiring people, places, and wildlife that depend on it to survive,” according to a report by Deadline.
The lineup includes a seven-part series, titled, “Action Planet Climate Challenge,” which reportedly “explores how some of the world’s most well-known figures are stepping up to make a difference in the world and inspiring audiences to take action.”
The series, however, includes climate change hypocrites Matt Damon and Jane Fonda.
“Each 8-12 minute episode features an interview with a high-profile celebrity activist talking about organizations — including Matt Damon’s Water.org, Jane Fonda’s Fire Drill Fridays, and Adrian Grenier’s Lonely Whale — that they’ve co-founded or support that are making an impact today,” Deadline reports.
Matt Damon’s 2012 movie Promised Land — which tried to villainize the natural gas industry — was produced “in association with” Image Media Abu Dhabi, a company owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), notes Media Research Center.
Former US President Bill Clinton and actor Matt Damon during the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Cinton Global Initative (CGI) in New York September 22, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
In 2013, the UAE — which is a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) — exported $166 billion of crude oil, according to the CIA World Factbook.
Last year, Damon was caught taking a private jet to film parts of the Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder in Australia, flying from Byron Bay in the northern part of New South Wales to Sydney.
As for Jane Fonda, the actress has boasted about joining the Mile High Club on a private jet.
Actress Jane Fonda marches during a climate rally outside US Capitol in Washington, DC on November 8, 2019. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
In 2015, Fonda told Ellen DeGeneres that she became a member of the mile-high club at age 50 on her fourth date with ex-husband Ted Turner, exclaiming, “I joined! Suddenly, the seats became a bed.”
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