Posted on GenZConservative.com - April 26, 2021

Liberal Maureen Dowd, one of the New York Times’ most notable columnists, and major Trump denouncer, recently took to her own allies and friends with a devastating OpEd against the Liberal Hollywood elites, their annual awards celebration, the Oscars, and the rapid decline in worldwide popularity that is sinking America’s once prestigious film industry.

The title of the OpEd, ‘Crushed Dream Factory,’ notes the scant popularity of Hollywood after nearly a decade of sexual assault allegations from studio moguls, the endless virtue-signal from Hollywood elites around identity politics that they themselves do not ascribe by (think ‘college admission scandals and Felicity Huffman), or the still rampant exclusion of women and minorities when it comes to overall screen time. All this coming from an industry where the celebrity performers elevate themselves as beacons of moral authority and high-minded intellectualism.

In the final line of the OpEd, Dowd quotes the contradiction at the heart of Hollywood in the words of one particular elite: “The dominant impulse of filmmakers now,” he concluded, “is to show you stories and truths that Hollywood has obscured.”

Dowd interviews other Hollywood elites who seem to suggest that Hollywood is descending into a pit of avant-gardist quackery. An entertainment industry once known to appeal to universal truths and the American general public, including American values, now spends most of its time celebrating avant-gardist films that receive little popular attention.

These movies, still bastions of racial and gender exclusion, are heralded by an industry that has long lost touch with reality and the wants and needs of the American worker, or for that matter, workers across the world who turn to film for entertainment not moral lessons or virtue-signaling.

I cannot help but recall the infamous treatment of Native American leader Sacheen Littlefeather and Marlon Brando after Brando gave his Oscar acceptance speech in support of Native American on-screen awareness.

Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, at the time, gave a stunning rebuke of Hollywood, and specifically, Hollywood’s negative treatment of Native Americans on-screen. Both Ms. Littlefeather and Brando were blackballed after this speech was made by Littlefeather, a permanent stain on Hollywood’s endless virtue-signals that many prominent actors and actresses still do not fully acknowledge about their industry’s legacy.

These same avant-gardists, who once blackballed one of the greatest actors in American history, Marlon Brando, are now threatening to collapse one of America’s most prominent industries in the face of a Chinese propaganda machine . . .

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