Hollywood’s selective silence on Iran exposes the lie of celebrity activism
Retired Navy Captain Brent Sadler joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the arrival of a U.S. carrier strike group in the Middle East, warning the Iranian regime to make an offer or face potential strikes.
In the glittering ballroom of the Golden Globes, the air is usually thick with self-congratulatory speeches about the power of art to change the world.
But this year, as the Iranian regime escalated its brutal crackdown on a generation of freedom fighters, that same room was defined by a haunting, comfortable silence. Many of the night’s most visible moral arbiters, including Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes, Ariana Grande, Jean Smart, Natasha Lyonne and Bella Ramsey, proudly wore pins against ICE after Renee Good was shot. They signaled their concern for one cause while saying and doing nothing for Iran, where people are being beaten, imprisoned and killed for demanding basic freedom.
We are told that "silence is violence" when it suits a domestic political narrative, yet when a tyrannical theocracy hangs young men from cranes and blinds women for the crime of showing their hair, the cameras stop rolling.
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