From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://bernardgoldberg.com/how-long-can-hollywood-ignore-joss-whedons-hate/   
      
   By CHRISTIAN TOTO April 28, 2017 3 Comments   
      
      
   When Michael Richards screamed the N-word at a black comedy club patron his   
   career came screeching to a halt.   
      
   It never truly recovered.   
      
   “Grey’s Anatomy’s” Isaiah Washington’s career collapsed after he   
   slammed a   
   gay colleague as a “faggot” twice in public.   
      
   “After the incident at the Golden Globes, everything just fell apart,” he   
   said. “I lost everything. I couldn’t afford to have an agent. I couldn’t   
   afford to have a publicist. I couldn’t afford to continue.”   
      
   Mel Gibson’s well-publicized rant against Jews sent him into Hollywood   
   purgatory. He only recently emerged with the Oscar-nominated “Hacksaw   
    Ridge.”   
      
   What about Joss Whedon?   
      
   The talented mind behind “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and two “Avengers”   
   hits   
   has been a one-stop hate machine since Election Day. While many stars have   
   been venting on social media about President Donald Trump, he’s gone a few   
   steps further.   
      
   Whedon Tweeted about wanting Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to get fucked by   
   a rhino to death.   
      
   Whedon slammed Oscar winner Nicole Kidman for saying something gracious   
   about the country’s new president by issuing a tweet that mocked her   
   physical appearance.   
      
   The director compared Ivanka Trump to a breed of dog.   
      
   Whedon warned that, under the Trump administration, gay people would soon be   
   rounded up and killed as is allegedly happening in Chechnya.   
      
   In a way, those hateful statements were the warm-up to this week’s main   
   event. In a single Tweet Whedon not only mocked teen cancer patients he   
   shamed their physical appearance.   
      
   Whedon turned the following Tweet from Speaker Ryan, featuring him talking   
   to several young cancer survivors, into a ghastly joke.   
      
   Paul Ryan ✔ @SpeakerRyan   
           "Advocacy is not limited to adults. These Wisconsin teens shared   
   some powerful stories with me about their fight against childhood cancer."   
   5:43 PM - 27 Apr 2017 · Washington, DC   
      
      
   Whedon’s take?   
      
   "Tonight on White House wife hunt. Donny makes host P. Ryan give 2 more   
   contestants the ‘Not a 10’ card" — 4:50 pm April 27   
      
   Whedon left the Tweet up for several hours while shocked social media users,   
   both liberal and conservative, blasted him.The director eventually took the   
   Tweet down and offered an apology that couldn’t be charitably be described   
   as half-hearted.   
      
      
   Joss Whedon ✔ @joss   
   "So I tweeted something that inadvertently offended everyone except the   
   people I was trying to offend. I'm sorry. I'll be quiet for a bit."   
   11:12 PM - 27 Apr 2017   
      
   Remember, this is the same celebrity who admitted to being “broken”   
   following Trump’s election.   
      
   One reason Whedon may get away with all of this is simple. He’s not just a   
   liberal but one who actively fights against the GOP. His “Save the Day”   
   videos rallied stars to shove flailing candidate Hillary Clinton over the   
   finish line last year.   
      
   The media also is playing its part to protect Whedon.   
      
   How?   
      
   By ignoring or downplaying his most outrageous statements. Most   
   entertainment outlets ignored Whedon’s unhinged comments about Ryan. They   
   did the same with his Trump prediction. Today, those very same news sources   
   haven’t written about Whedon’s odious Trump targeting cancer-stricken   
   teens.   
   Yet.   
      
   Give a dollop of credit to Buzzfeed for being one of the only   
   non-conservative sites to report on Whedon’s cruel cancer tweet.   
      
   It’s hard for Hollywood to work up anger against one of its own if it   
   doesn’t   
   know what’s happening in the first place.   
      
   The irony here is that Whedon considers himself as woke as any celebrity.   
   And he’s in talks to direct a “Batgirl” movie. Will audiences who know   
   about   
   his misogynistic Tweets scramble to see a Whedon “Batgirl?” Can Social   
   Justice Warrior swallow Whedon’s serial attacks on famous women in order to   
   see one of the rare superhero movies featuring a female lead?   
      
   Or will movie studios look at his record of success, swallow hard, and hope   
   his future Twitter outbursts don’t derail the project.   
      
           [As Paul Harvey used to say, "Quote without comment."]   
      
      
   David   
      
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