Robert De Niro told an awards ceremony a speech he was reading had been edited without his knowledge, removing critical comments about Donald Trump.

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    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Robert De Niro told an awards ceremony a speech he was reading had been edited without his knowledge, removing critical comments about Donald Trump.

    He referred to students in Florida being told slaves developed skills “for their personal benefit”, and said the entertainment industry “isn’t immune to this festering disease”.

    He singled out actor John Wayne, quoting 1971 remarks about Native Americans in which he said: “I don’t feel we did wrong taking this great country away from them.”

    He attacks the weak, destroys the gifts of nature and shows disrespect, for example, by using Pocahontas as a slur," referencing the former president’s nickname for Senator Elizabeth Warren.

    De Niro, who has been vocal in his criticism of Trump in the past, then said he was supposed to thank the Gotham Awards and Apple, which made Killers of the Flower Moon.

    The top prize for best feature went to drama Past Lives, about childhood sweethearts in South Korea who are separated when one emigrates to the US.


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      10 months ago

      Because the monkeys that support Trump are the exact kind of people to hold actors in higher regard than they should be.

      This shit isn’t rocket science, the logic is as easy to read as 1+1.

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        10 months ago

        The article literally mentions John Wayne, one of the idols of the right. The dude was a bastard. Beat up his wives and girlfriends, cheated on his wives, skipped out on being an actual soldier in WWII because his movie career was taking off and like all the other bastards that suddenly decide their manhood should revolve around character they never built, he became a wannabe ever since. Just like modern day Arpaio and Nugent. Tough guys that dodged or made a big deal of minor service, one of which is an entertainer, has tv shows and sings. They were also perfectly happy to broadcast Eastwood talking to a chair when it suited them.

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      10 months ago

      For many of us, we don’t care because he’s famous, but we hear it because he’s famous. He has a platform, and he chooses to use it! You’re getting dangerously close to “Shut up and dribble” territory.