Salon.com > Erik Lundegaard http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:24:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What liberal Hollywood? http://www.salon.com/2012/08/23/what_liberal_hollywood/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/23/what_liberal_hollywood/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12990584 Jonathan Chait’s New York magazine piece, “The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Is on Your Screen,” props up the very tired, and very dangerous, notion that the product of Hollywood is liberal. Here’s how you refute it:

Think of almost every movie you’ve ever seen.

Seriously. Once you do that, the product of Hollywood, i.e., the movies, is revealed to be as white as the Republican Party, as violent as a neocon’s wet dream, and as monogamous as no one’s wet dream.

The GOP propagates an absolutist vision of good vs. evil? Hey, so do the movies! The GOP is dominated by white men? Most movies star white men! With guns! And when bad guys gather, there’s one thing Hollywood and the GOP agree on: Keep the diplomats out because they’ll just screw things up with their words. Stupid words. Who needs words when you can kick some ass!

Forest, trees

Chait’s thesis is a textbook example of not being able to see the forest for the trees. Here are some of his trees:

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