Unless you think being honored in Cooperstown for a movie you did 15 years ago is a "job," then don't call it "blacklisting" when people don't want to associate with you because you utter indefensible idiocies. Really, do you think the Baseball Hall of Fame should honor Al Campanis for his years of contributions to baseball or should he be "blacklisted" for exercising his first amendment right to express his views on race? Al shouldn't be honored and neither should Tim Robbins ("Larry 'Mother' Tucker" in Fraternity Vacation). It's not a "blacklist" to express disapproval of someone's views by refusing to socialize with them.
I'm not even sure it's a bad thing to actually deny someone a job because you disagree with their views. Really, would you want to work with Al Campanis, Pat Buchanan or Noam Chomsky? I'll stop beating around the bush. I expect Tim Robbins ("Phil Blumburtt" in Howard the Duck) tp do everything he could to keep some Nazi-sympathizer from working in Hollywood, and he would be correct in doing so.
And I don't remember Tim Robbins ("Larry" in Cadillac Man) standing up to defend Eliz Kazan when the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences gave him a lifetime achievement award. Other Hollywood leftists were loud in their outrage because Kazan had stood up against the Communist insurgency in Hollywood (an insurgency documented by Soviet and East German files).
Now, Tim Robbins ("Meat" in Bull Durham) is complaining that the First Amendment is suffering.
"A chill wind is blowing in this nation," Robbins told a National Press Club luncheon Tuesday. "Every day the airwaves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent."And spewed invective and hatred are directed in the other direction too, from the Janeane Garofalos and Sheryl Crows of the world, yet, the Republic continues. It's called the marketplace of ideas and it is especially tough when most everyone in the marketplace disagrees with you. It's not the end of the world or 1933. Grow a backbone.
But the blacklist continues and you see nary a movie about it. While our "institutions of higher learning" are preaching diversity, they are systematically excluding conservative viewpoints from the academy. Tim and Susan need to make a movie about that. It would show real courage.
