It’s bad enough that so much of the crap Hollywood is peddling these days isn’t worth the film it’s recorded on, but at least we all still have the choice to pay for their products – or not. That’s how it’s supposed to work in a free country. Now however, the industry’s bullying tactics against the state of Georgia are bordering on extortion. They’re pro-choice on abortion; totalitarian on everything else.
What set the angry celebrity mob off this time is Georgia’s new abortion law which Gov. Brian Kemp (R.) signed on May 7th ~
(The law) outlaws most abortions on babies who have a detectable heartbeat, which typically occurs six weeks after conception. The law is due to take effect on Jan. 1, but is expected to face legal challenges before then.
As we learn more and more about fetal development in the womb it’s becoming almost impossible to pretend a fertilized egg is just a clump of cells. A heartbeat at six weeks is difficult to ignore. Although, it’s not yet able to survive on its own, this tiny being is clearly a brand-new creation, with its own unique DNA. Not something to tossed away because it’s inconvenient.
But Hollywood leftists remain in denial. Not only that, everyone else must participate in that denial. The fact that Georgia prefers reality has them outraged.
Netflix started the protest ~
Netflix’s “Chief Content Officer” Ted Sarandos further promised that his employer will be working with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to dismantle Georgia’s heartbeat law, as well as other similar heartbeat laws, so that females involved with Netflix productions like “Ozark” and “Stranger Things” will continue to have the government’s permission to murder unborn human life at any point during pregnancy, as well as after pregnancy when a baby has left the womb.
Disney promptly joined the protest (Doesn’t it strike you as odd that a company whose consumer base isn’t old enough to get a driver’s license would promote abortion – thus reducing their future consumer base?) ~
Disney’s chief executive said Wednesday that it would be “very difficult” for the media company to continue filming in Georgia if the state’s new law restricting abortions takes effect.
Bob Iger told Reuters that, if the law is implemented, it would be not be “practical for us to continue to shoot” in Georgia.
“Not be practical”? What – do all the women in the film industry need unlimited access to full-term abortion 24/7? Practical?
AMC also vows to ‘reevaluate our activity in Georgia’ if abortion bill takes effect ~
AMC Networks announced Thursday that it would join a growing number of media companies threatening to pull investments or projects in Georgia over the state’s new anti-abortion law that goes into effect next year.
A spokesperson for the network, which has invested heavily in production facilities in the state, including for the network’s hit series “The Walking Dead,” told Variety the company would “reevaluate” its productions in the state if the new law survives legal challenges filed by abortion rights advocates.
Other pro-abortion studios that expressed their displeasure with the new law include NBC Universal, Warner Media, Sony, Viacom and CBS Showtime.
Hollywood feels they can throw their weight – and amorality – around in Georgia because the state has enticed them there with financial incentives – tax credits, etc.. As the Washington describes it ~
The rise of Georgia’s film industry is not unlike that of Los Angeles in the early 20th century. Back then, aspiring producers chose Southern California, an open shop town, over unionized San Francisco. Low labor costs in Georgia offer a similar advantage, and there is also a significant amount of filmmaking infrastructure already in place.
And yet the hypocrisy and selective outrage of these leftists is painfully obvious. All of these companies are perfectly happy to produce films in Egypt (prohibits abortion unless necessary to save the life of the mother), Jordan (Jordanian penal code criminalizes abortion), United Arab Emirates (outlaws all abortions except when the mother’s life is at risk or when the baby has a fatal “abnormality.”) and China (one-child policy actually enforced abortions, but China is still communist – and actually puts Muslims in internment camps).
And yet, they’re so accustomed to fabricating their own reality out in LaLa Land they somehow believe they can impose their values on the rest of the country. Ben Shapiro puts Hollywood’s arrogant demands in perspective ~
The people of Georgia don’t spend an awful lot of time trying to control the policies of New York or California.
Yet the greatest and most moral among us–people who read lines for a living and look attractive for magazine covers–now lecture people thousands of miles away on the necessity of late-term abortion.
Just say no. #BoycottHollywood
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Related:
Netflix And Disney Don’t Get To Decide Georgia’s Abortion Laws ~
(T)he odds are quite high that a lower court will block the law and thus give the Supreme Court the opportunity to consider its constitutionality and that of similar laws around the nation. Netflix likely knows this, and I can only conclude that its statements related to the Georgia fetal heartbeat law is the company’s way of firing a warning shot to Georgia and similar states: Conform to our Hollywood ideals and values, or we won’t give you our business […]
Consumers should fight back and let Netflix know that it can’t transplant its values to Georgia or any other state exercising its system of democracy.
