The Matt Damon Political Bigotry Thread

[(poco) Sforzando]

It's hard to read this as anything other than a malicious attempt to impugn my integrity.

Oh, cut the crap.

"forming opinions without just cause."

Bingo.

[Philoctetes]

If you or others cannot see something so clear as the bigotry Damon displayed, then either you still don't understand what the term "bigot" means or something other than reason is governing your perceptions.  That's tragically common these days.  It's a daily occurrence to encounter folks who have no trouble seeing evidence of bigotry in the antics of, say, Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, but who can't recognize it in Keith Obermann or Rachel Maddow, though it's just as apparent and equally destructive.

Had to crimp that post to some actual content.

Well I'd say compare apples to apples. I fully agree that Rush is a bigot and that Obermann is a bigot.

I wouldn't put Damon into their category though.

I don't view what Damon says about politics are anything really in regards to the world as relevant in the least. He's not expected to know, or even really think about what he says. That's not part of the game. It's not his game. It's not his purpose. It's not his point.

While for the others, it's what they do, they have an influence. They're thinking it out. It's a strategy.

[Brian]

I just continue to not see what in Matt Damon's video makes him a bigot. He doesn't say anything against women per se, or small-town mayors per se, or Republicans per se, or Christians per se; his criticisms are the same criticisms which many other people made without being accused of bigotry: Palin has a lack of experience, she was (was!) an unknown, she was introduced by her party as a "hockey mom" rather than a credentialed candidate, and there were some nasty and sometimes true rumors about her floating around. I have thought about going line by line through Damon's video trying to find a bigoted sentence, but I already sort of did and it would just be a waste of time anyhow.

I've just looked Matt Damon up on IMDB and the only movie of his that I have ever seen is Ocean's Eleven. Well, and he was apparently an uncredited unconfirmed extra in Field of Dreams.

[snyprrr]

Some people can't drink milk; some people don't like you. What's the dif?

[The new erato]

One of them's genetic, the other one's generic!



No offense; I just needed to say it!

[DavidRoss]

I just continue to not see what in Matt Damon's video makes him a bigot. He doesn't say anything against women per se, or small-town mayors per se, or Republicans per se, or Christians per se; his criticisms are the same criticisms which many other people made without being accused of bigotry: Palin has a lack of experience, she was (was!) an unknown, she was introduced by her party as a "hockey mom" rather than a credentialed candidate, and there were some nasty and sometimes true rumors about her floating around. I have thought about going line by line through Damon's video trying to find a bigoted sentence, but I already sort of did and it would just be a waste of time anyhow.

Perhaps it would help, Brian, if you approached it with the same mindset that you intend to bring to True Grit, applying your considerable intelligence to understanding how his statements reveal his bigotry, rather than to denying it...?  As Sforzando pointed out, here is a good place to start: "forming opinions without just cause."