![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Post on John Scalzi's website.
It is never not strange to me how the general public will often demand that celebrities speak out about current events or whatever, sometimes becoming increasingly angry when they don't, for whatever reasons, but then, just as often, sometimes in the very same breath, they will scoff at the opinions of celebrities and those who care about them, usually when said opinions are the opposite of their own.
For instance, it's like how all the Trumpanzees will bray about how, supposedly, nobody cares what celebrities have to say about politics, usually in response to a verbal wrecking of their God Emperor's shit given by some celebrity or another, while simultaneously being completely oblivious to the irony of their God Emperor having been 1) a "reality" show TV "star" for over a decade, 2) a bit-part "actor" who won a Razzie for his "role" as himself in a softcore porn movie titled Ghosts Can't Do It, and 3) involved in a hair-vs-"hair" match in the main event of Wrestlemania 23. In other words, he is, and has never stopped being, one of the "yugest," gaudiest, most airheaded celebrities in existence today. Yet, the Trumpanzees take his word as gospel truth, even though he is no more (and far less, in too many ways) relevant or insightful than any of the other celebrities whose opinions they discard out of hand, simply because those people happen to be celebrities.
It is never not strange to me how the general public will often demand that celebrities speak out about current events or whatever, sometimes becoming increasingly angry when they don't, for whatever reasons, but then, just as often, sometimes in the very same breath, they will scoff at the opinions of celebrities and those who care about them, usually when said opinions are the opposite of their own.
For instance, it's like how all the Trumpanzees will bray about how, supposedly, nobody cares what celebrities have to say about politics, usually in response to a verbal wrecking of their God Emperor's shit given by some celebrity or another, while simultaneously being completely oblivious to the irony of their God Emperor having been 1) a "reality" show TV "star" for over a decade, 2) a bit-part "actor" who won a Razzie for his "role" as himself in a softcore porn movie titled Ghosts Can't Do It, and 3) involved in a hair-vs-"hair" match in the main event of Wrestlemania 23. In other words, he is, and has never stopped being, one of the "yugest," gaudiest, most airheaded celebrities in existence today. Yet, the Trumpanzees take his word as gospel truth, even though he is no more (and far less, in too many ways) relevant or insightful than any of the other celebrities whose opinions they discard out of hand, simply because those people happen to be celebrities.
