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On Friday, Daniella Greenbaum, a columnist for Business Insider, wrote a column about the recent controversy surrounding the actress Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming role as a transgender man. Some of Twitter’s loudest social justice warriors yelped that a nontransgender actor wasn’t allowed, according to the dogma of the high church of political correctness, to portray a transgender character, and Greenbaum wanted to present the far more reasonable view that an actor’s job is, well, just to act. Pretending to be someone else is literally the job description. It was about as anodyne an argument one could make; a few hours and a few hundred angry tweets later, however, the publication pulled it from print.
The reason, according to a note affixed to the no-longer-available column (you can read it here, courtesy of a different publication), is that the piece did not meet Business Insider‘s editorial standards. Just what those standards may be was confusing to some readers of BI, not an outfit routinely accused of journalistic excellence; to clarify things, the publication’s editor in chief, Nicholas Carlson, issued new guidelines earlier this week, saying that pieces pertaining to “culturally sensitive topics, such as marginalized communities, race, or LGBTQ+ issues,” will be handled with special care by several editors at the publication prior to being approved. “We should be as careful about culturally sensitive pieces as we are legally sensitive pieces,” Carlson wrote, “and this policy reflects that.”
Scarlet Johansson is reportedly Halachically Jewish.
ReplyDeleteSince she is Bas Yisrael, I think it is wrong for her to portray a tranny in a movie. And I think that if we as a nation had our act together, we would get that message across to her. But we don't, so we don't.
So what happens? A force of Tuma takes over our responsibility. The trannies give her the message.
I think this was Yitzchak's intent when he told Esav he would become the leader when Yaakov slacks off on the job.
We find a similar case in the rise of the Nazis in Germany. The Jews did not shut down the Jew run Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. So the Nazis did.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
Once the Nazis were in complete power they just continued with their policy of eradicating degeneracy. They ended up equating all Jews with degeneracy, and thus justified their eradication of all Jews.
So it is today. Unless we Jews stand up and decry the beast among us, we will all -- with the exception perhaps of those who build some sort of Teva -- be swept up in the eventual cleansing of society.