Should Celebrities Be Allowed to Express Politics?

It doesn't take a brainiac to know that the majority of people (not all) in Hollywood are more liberally prone and most have been anti Donald Trump since he first ran for president. Heck, they might have hated him before that, I don't know. What I do know is that Academy Award winning actress, Meryl Streep had criticism of Donald Trump during her acceptance speech for her Golden Globe award. Now I don't know what she won it for and I really don't care, but it was mostly about how Donald Trump made fun of a disabled reporter last year. Now, again, I don't know why Donald Trump made fun of the guy, but I am guessing that Donald thought the guy wrote a false article on Trump and I do know that Donald DID mock him.

Now Donald responded to Meryl Streep in the best way he could. He went straight to twitter to call the Academy Award winning actress "overrated" and that he has never mocked a disabled reporter. I guess to Donald Trump, taking a limp-wrist slap to the chest multiple times and making a a paralyzed looking face with his mouth open is totally NOT mocking not only the reporter, but also handicapped and disabled people. So there is that, Donald Trump lied, again, doesn't surprise me though. You would think he would be discrete about it, but Donald doesn't do discrete. But there it is, left right out in the open.

Now every conservative internet outlet out there is going after celebrities, and almost every conservative person on social media is re-posting memes by other celebrities because they had the audacity to get "political" and to voice their ideas. Lets be honest here, most of them got triggered because Streep criticized Trump and I get it, it is cute. You can't actually go after what she said, because most of it is probably true, so you have to go after her character and the fact that she is wealthy. For this reason, she needs to "shut the hell up" and just be an actor. I love it how many "right wingers" care so much about freedom of speech and how political correctness destroys everything. Someone needs to understand that free speech goes both ways. You can say what you want without slandering people, but if people get offended, they have the right to call you a racist or a sexist. Do I subscribe to this mode of argument or debate? No! And the reason is because I do not get offended as easily. However, this is how freedom of speech works and if you don't like it, stop claiming you are so for it, because you aren't.

Maybe I am lost here or maybe I am from another planet, but movies, music, and pretty much every other forms of art media have been up for political interpretation. I love listening to music of all genres and from all periods because it always reminds me of what went on at the time. The same goes for movies as well. All of these things carry political meaning from time to time. So, okay, they can talk about it in their movies, their songs, in their paintings, sculptures, poems, and books, but just don't use you status to form a platform about it. Okay, yeah, sounds good. That only goes completely against our constitution that many appear to hold dear. I guess the next time a celebrity has an opinion about something, they should just shut their pie holes until they say something that bashes Hillary, Black Lives Matter, political correctness, and Obama, to which we will pretend it never happened.

But lets talk about a celebrity that "had an opinion", a guy that knows "nothing about politics" and someone who consistently "says the wrong things in the wrong places"... Our President Elect! He is a self-claimed billionaire that makes a lot of money, it tough, infallible, and will somehow make America Great... Again... Where are all of his sheep condemning his freedom of speech? Oh yeah, they are so far up his butt that they forget about all of that. Here are pictures of him with celebrities,

here are pictures of him on the red carpet,

 and here are pictures of him at his huge mansion!

It is so easy, but because you are such a big fan of his, you don't care to expose it. You know Streep is right, but you are so triggered that you don't have a legitimate response. 

Maybe it "wasn't the best place to say what she said," maybe "the Golden Globes should be about movies and television, not bashing Trump," and "maybe Meryl Streep should just do her job and leave the politics to the politicians and the sofa politicians," just like you all. But hey, you are a doctor, a teacher, a construction worker, a police officer, a member of the military, a weatherman, a baker, a toll booth operator, an athlete, a photographer, or a used car salesman. You don't know anything about politics either, so maybe the next time you have the slightest political opinion, maybe you should remember Meryl Streep and shut your mouth. You wouldn't like that either, would you? Yeah, thats what I thought.

As for all of the other celebrities like Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington who want to tell others not to use their position of power to share their political opinions, I say, okay, that is fine, you guys are in every right to say so and I respect their insight and like them as actors. However, these two guys have been in movies that have exposed negative aspects of our society and I didn't see these guys complaining about it when they did it. The moment that we are unable or too afraid to share our insight and our opinions, is the moment we lose our right to express our mind and the moment we all become mindless drones without a way to question the world that we live in. I hope those two understand that the next time they see problems in society.