Paul Schrader Attacks Twitter CEO Elon Musk For Embracing Free Speech
Celebrated 'Taxi Driver' scribe skewers billionaire for rejecting censorship
The Modern Left is having a terrible, horrible, no good week.
Billionaire Elon Musk officially took over Twitter, a social media giant renowned for censorship and political bias. Musk quickly cleaned house, firing key officials who oversaw the platform’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story and more.
He also plans to erase permanent bans for many ex-users.
Musk, to his credit, hopes to change that atmosphere. That’s made him Enemy No. 1 for both the press and Leftists. Select corners of Hollywood aren’t happy, either.
Here’s one example:
The day @elonmusk takes ownership of @Twitter I’m out. Not that that means much. But I just wanted to declare. G’night.
— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) October 22, 2022
Consider Paul Schrader example number two.
The acclaimed filmmaker (“Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “First Reformed“) used his Facebook perch to blast Musk’s Twitter acquisition.
Schrader’s views, reflected by many of his Facebook followers, aren’t shocking. Today’s Hollywood is wary of free speech, eager to embrace woke restrictions and happy to silence their political opponents.
Consider how Hollywood, Inc. cheered when tech giants banned President Donald Trump nearly two years ago.
The industry has lost its way. The same artists who relive the McCarthy era through film after film see no problem with censoring some voices in the modern era.
Schrader recently had a spate of bad health, pushing him to the brink of death. He’s made a wonderful recovery and hopes to direct again should the financing fall his way.
He used the film festival release of his latest directorial effort, “Master Gardener,” to thank western culture for his career.
“I have been blessed living in a bubble of creative freedom [emphasis added], affluence, leisure time, peace and good health,” Schrader wrote.
For Schrader, not all creative freedom matters, alas.
Oh the irony indeed!
The last part of the clip ends with “NOBODY has the right to tell you how to WRITE, ACT, PRAY, SPEAK, PROTEST, VOTE, WORK, CREATE or
…wait for it… THINK!!
If you have not kept up, it is Hollywood that is dying. No one wants to see their black, feminist Homo movies.
I certainly have stopped going to most. I believe in voting, with my money. If they don’t turn a profit for their investors they will stop. It is WE who are at fault for encouraging the filth (my opinion, to be sure) and the anti-American Culture (not just my opinion but their’s, too) by paying to see it. What is wrong here?
I find it ironic that creative people whose entire careers depend on free speech are so against it. It’s like a fish being against water.
It’s a pity that all these “artists” who celebrate their freedom to create their “art” embrace the silencing of anyone they don’t agree with on any topic. So little left in Hollywood, the music industry, etc., to admire or enjoy as they continue to show how petty and small they really are underneath their facades.
Speech isn’t free, unless you agree. with us.
Hollywood needs to disband and the mainstream media needs to be defunded