Hollywood_Guy wrote:
Where is the right's "fair share" in all the institutions like Hollywood and academia.
So, in other words, you want a "hand out"?
You're not owed
anything. Work hard,
pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and if you actually have talent - then you'll get in.
It's really as simple and as easy as that.
Someone wants conservative teachers? Okay, then become a conservative teacher. Conservatives want more of a say in Hollywood, okay then literally try to sell something that
can make
money - don't whine,
do it.
Instead, conservatives love to whine that there is a vast conspiracy theory holding them back rather than actually putting any effort and work in. Case in point - Mel Gibson is as openly racist and anti-semitic as people come, yet he continues getting MAJOR funding from the TOP studios to direct his
dream projects. Clint Eastwood owns many of the buildings on the WB lot. If the whole "oh my god Hollywood has a conspiracy against us!" had
any merit Mel Gibson would have been chased out of Hollywood a long time ago. Conservatives should
stop with the conspiracy theories and their whining and actually
work.
I personally find it weird how in every other regard conservatives love to say "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" while in others such as Hollywood and academia especially they believe they are
owed an affirmative action type of hand-out. Life doesn't work that way -
pull yourself up by your bootstrap.
This is one of the areas - business, and work, ethic - that I am actually stringently conservative in.
Adding: I work in the film industry and connected to one of the top studios, thus it's a field that I have experience with.