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ALL CELEBRITIES ARE STILL ENTITLED TO BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS!

For those that say, "It is such a pity that Said and wrote those things!" "I used to like them!"

By Ross E Fortune LombardiPublished 3 years ago 8 min read
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ALL CELEBRITIES ARE STILL ENTITLED TO BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS!

CELEBRITIES ARE PEOPLE AS WELL!

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Remember folks,

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Celebrities are not gods and angels or devils!

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TV and film stars are just normal people who crap, wipe, fart, smell and snot-like the rest of us,

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They also feel emotional pain, heartache, embarrassment, personal insecurity like the rest of us.

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CELEBRITIES ARE HAVE RIGHTS TO!

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Any actors' personal opinion that they have every right to express should not cause such offence that people chose to boycott a film.

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They should be able to say whatever they dam well, please!

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They do not need to to have their studios support or approval!

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It is not any of the studios business.

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After a long day at work,

Are your boss’s allowed to fire you?

Cut your hours?

Or financially censor you for your voiced options outside of work?

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Or would you sue their arse if they tried?

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Celebrities have (or should have) the same rights as you or me!

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They are only mere Fellow Humans,

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Their success should NEVER become a golden cage!

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They are not “Owned” by any of us,

SLAVERY IS ILLEGAL!

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They are NOT indentured servants!

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So do not treat them as if they were!

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They have not given up their right as citizens to vote how they please.

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They do NOT forfeit their rights to free speech,

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Or lose the ability to change their minds from moment to moment.

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CELEBRITIES ARE NOT ‘THE PROJECT’ THEY WORKED ON!

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There will be well over 1000 people working on a media production project.

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Each individual from the doughnut boy through to the “Face” of the production will have a wide array of taste and opinions,

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Yes, some will be racist and/or homophobic to differing degrees,

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Yes, some will be Liberal or Conservative to differing degrees,

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Yes, some may be either pro-choice or pro-life to differing degrees.

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Some may or may not like the doughnuts the doughnut boy delivered that morning!

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Why should the choice of anyone individual exercising their just right to free speech?

Harm the job security and the ability to look after their families of the other thousand or more working people, who are on the same project!

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REMIND YOURSELF WHAT FREE SPEECH ACTUALLY ‘IS’

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Free speech is a right,

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Not a privilege, a gift that is given or granted.

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It is a right,

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And we equally have the right to call each other a “Dumb Arse” when we do not agree.

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All celebrities have a right to say stuff that ONLY represents them, themselves as an individual!

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The football player has the right to take a knee!

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And the dumb arses out there that are far too stupid to understand that the Nazi’s were evil are allowed to wave their colourful shit rags on a stick!

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FEAR OF THE MIND!

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If you are a true liberal then you already understand that our battles should be fought with reasoned argument, teaching and education, NOT with censorship!

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That is why all extremist on all far ends of all spectrums hate “Intellectuals” because they know we are their only real threat,

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(While their physical enemies, the opposite group of extremist who violently attacks them, only add to the moral, anger, the resilience of their group and add to its membership numbers and increase donations! They feed off each other! They are co-dependent!)

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That is why tactical cuts to the public education system are made by various interested parties!

In my mere tin foil hat opinion...

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Knowledge is power,

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If you reduce your people's ability to gain the knowledge then you also limit their ability to gain any of that power!

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And a weaker populace is much easier to control!

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The dumbing down of society is NOT an accident that “just happened”

Again,

In my mere tin foil hat, paranoid opinion...

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So anyone that responds to this article with “TMW” or “TLDR” will not have read this far and not understand the irony of their comment!

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<Facepalm>

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Hate when some people say dumb arse shit!

But defend to the death their right to say dumb arse shit!

And still, make sure you shout good and loud and make sure they know,

That you think they are talking nothing but dumb arse shit!

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Because

Censorship of all forms is a dual-edged sword that can as easily cut the head off the wielder as the intended target!

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CAN I STILL ENJOY THE FILM OR TV SERIES OF A DISGRACED STAR?

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YES!

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YES, YOU CAN!

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The STAR is NOT the definition of the media product!

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(Or at least, they should not be!)

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REMEMBER!

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No everyone working on a Media Product is highly paid!

Runners

Caterers

And

Cleaners

All rely on that work too!

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The STAR is NOT the entire work or product.

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Thousands of other artists, and support staff at all stages, are also involved with any film or series.

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So yes,

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Enjoy their performance because The Cameramen and Director captured and skilfully framed it.

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Enjoy the swagger of their character because a Costume Designer, designed and made those clothes.

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Enjoy their characters' words because a Scriptwriter team and Lead Main Writer wrote them.

They put the cool emotive dialogue in the mouth of that character!

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Enjoy the pace

Given to you by postproduction and editors, both visual and in sound!

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Enjoy the feeling you get from the special effects and a masterful lighting crew who created the correct mood!

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Enjoy all the other members of the cast in that same work!

Both co-stars, support, major, minor, and all the extras!

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Enjoy all the things that a media product gives you,

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And do it without any guilt!

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Do Not penalise a thousand hard-working and talented others or yourself for that one shitty person's real-life crimes!

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If you boycott all that work,

You may be falsely elevating the importance of their status and in part be supporting their sick delusional justification for their predatory, self-entitled, destructive narcissism!

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I do not feel that you are disrespecting their victims by enjoying a media product they just happened to be in!

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Instead, I feel that you are showing that piece of shit that they never really mattered!

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"It is such a pity that <Celebrity X> Said and wrote those things!"

"I used to like them!"

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When I was 7 I was racist.

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I would refuse to watch the Shirley Bassey BBC specials because she was black.

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And that made me feel "icky"

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When I was 15 I was a Homophobe.

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I would not listen to the Culture club and thought Boy George was "Fucking Gross"

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When I was 19 I was a misogynist.

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I thought to sleep with as many women as possible somehow made me cool and more of a man!

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Rather than the sad parody of a man I was actually being.

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I would love to be able to time travel and attempt to beat the crap out of my 19-year-old more ignorant self.

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When a currently famous celebrity, is pulled on a string of comments they made seven years ago or more, we should learn to accept it if they sincerely apologise and fully condemn who they once were!

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(Obviously, if anyone simply comes up with some crap, like...)

..."It may have happened but I do not remember"

(Or has committed a heinous crime such as sexual abuse then they must face the full weight of today's justice!)

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(The victims and our society are rightly owed that!)

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But your old friend or enemy at the high school will not be the same person that they once were at the 10th school reunion!

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Or at least, they should not be,

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Deeply pity them if they are still mentally trapped there!

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BUT!

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I also accept that a racist can learn not the be a racist,

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I also Accept that a misogynist can learn not the be a sexist,

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I also accept that a homophobe can learn not the be a homophobe,

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If we can not believe in human potential for personal growth and redemption then what the hell is the point of any of us ever bothering getting out of bed??!!

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About the Creator

Ross E Fortune Lombardi

Writer. Gamer, Goth

A (Constantly Failing To Be Funny) satirist!

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Mutare non est meum

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http://lombot.co.uk

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