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Attorney General William Barr gave a speech on Thursday condemning China for its actions at home and abroad and accusing Hollywood, Big Tech, and other U.S. companies of “kowtowing” to Beijing.
“If what happened in China stayed in China, that would all be bad enough. But instead of America changing China, China is leveraging its economic power to change America,” Barr said. “The [Chinese Communist Party] seeks to extend its influence around the world, including on American soil … All too often, for the sake of short-term profits, American companies have succumbed to that influence, even at the expense of freedom and openness in the United States. Sadly, examples of American business bowing to Beijing are legion.”
Barr pointed to Hollywood as a prime example.
“Hollywood actors, producers, and directors pride themselves on celebrating freedom and the human spirit," he said. "And every year at the Academy Awards, Americans are lectured about how this country falls short of Hollywood’s ideals of social justice. But Hollywood now regularly censors its own movies to appease the Chinese Communist Party, the world’s most powerful violator of human rights. This censorship infects not only versions of movies that are released in China, but also many that are shown in American theaters to American audiences.”
Barr said that in the movie World War Z, a scene speculating that the zombie virus may have originated in China was reportedly removed and that in the blockbuster film Doctor Strange, the nationality of a character was switched from a Tibetan monk to a Celtic mystic. Barr didn’t mention that in Top Gun: Maverick, it appears the Taiwanese and Japanese flags and the USS Galveston patch on the back of Maverick's jacket was removed, that Freddie Mercury’s bisexuality in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody was censored for Chinese audiences, and that in the 2012 Red Dawn remake, the occupiers of the U.S. were switched from Chinese to North Koreans.
“But many more scripts likely never see the light of day because writers and producers know not to even test the limits. Chinese government censors don’t need to say a word because Hollywood is doing their work for them,” Barr said.
From the author: nothing surprises me amid the fact that the pro-Chinese "Democratic" party is ready to destroy the United States in the name of seizing power and establishing a semi-fascist or fascist regime in the fragments of a destroyed country
“If what happened in China stayed in China, that would all be bad enough. But instead of America changing China, China is leveraging its economic power to change America,” Barr said. “The [Chinese Communist Party] seeks to extend its influence around the world, including on American soil … All too often, for the sake of short-term profits, American companies have succumbed to that influence, even at the expense of freedom and openness in the United States. Sadly, examples of American business bowing to Beijing are legion.”
Barr pointed to Hollywood as a prime example.
“Hollywood actors, producers, and directors pride themselves on celebrating freedom and the human spirit," he said. "And every year at the Academy Awards, Americans are lectured about how this country falls short of Hollywood’s ideals of social justice. But Hollywood now regularly censors its own movies to appease the Chinese Communist Party, the world’s most powerful violator of human rights. This censorship infects not only versions of movies that are released in China, but also many that are shown in American theaters to American audiences.”
Barr said that in the movie World War Z, a scene speculating that the zombie virus may have originated in China was reportedly removed and that in the blockbuster film Doctor Strange, the nationality of a character was switched from a Tibetan monk to a Celtic mystic. Barr didn’t mention that in Top Gun: Maverick, it appears the Taiwanese and Japanese flags and the USS Galveston patch on the back of Maverick's jacket was removed, that Freddie Mercury’s bisexuality in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody was censored for Chinese audiences, and that in the 2012 Red Dawn remake, the occupiers of the U.S. were switched from Chinese to North Koreans.
“But many more scripts likely never see the light of day because writers and producers know not to even test the limits. Chinese government censors don’t need to say a word because Hollywood is doing their work for them,” Barr said.
From the author: nothing surprises me amid the fact that the pro-Chinese "Democratic" party is ready to destroy the United States in the name of seizing power and establishing a semi-fascist or fascist regime in the fragments of a destroyed country
