Copyright ©2020 PJmedia.com/Salem Media. “If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. If you go to ITakeResponsibility.org (don’t), the site demands that you genuflect before the Progressive Gods before being allowed in to gawk at the celebrities.Next, you must pledge what action you’ll take, and a bunch of Hail Marys is not on the list.You may either promise to “demand for [sic] police accountability,” or “support organizations on the front lines,” or “donate to families afflicted,” or “mobilize voting efforts.”Then, and only then, will you be granted grace enough to go to the organization’s Donate page. Then there’s the website, which if anything is even more starkly pretentious than the video. The “I Take Responsibility” video, which features the likes of Kesha, Julianne Moore and Justin Theroux, directed viewers to the #itakeresponsibility movement’s website.
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Give generously, because “health, safety and resiliency exist without police of any kind.”The site and the video are the work of a left-wing organization called Campaign Zero, whose primary goal seems to be the elimination of the “Here’s a pro-tip for our preening celebs: Wearing makeup designed to look like you aren’t wearing makeup and saying “I take responsibility” with as much earnestness as your acting classes could help you muster is not in any way taking responsibility.It is, in fact, dodging responsibility — stipulating for the moment that it’s the responsibility of any celebrities to pretend to take responsibility for the lives of others whose very existence they barely deign to acknowledge.If these celebrities want to get serious about what’s wrong with our country, maybe they could spend a few days living in UPDATE: I almost missed the best part, the part that proves the producers understand what a craptaculent thing they’ve created.Here is the comments section from the video’s YouTube page:“I take responsibility,” sure, but no gruff from you proles. Our goal is to rally the white community, to provide education and encourage action. ITakeResponsibility.org was created to stand up for our Black friends and family in America; rallying the White community, to educate and take action. Our mission is to ensure this takes place.We cannot sit idle while systemic racism and police brutality continue throughout our country.
Racism is personal, it is local, and every situation needs to be identified, recognized, and addressed. If celebrities ritualistically debasing themselves for the sake of a progressive cause could save the world, then the two minutes of “I Take Responsibility” you’re about to see could erase all of mankind’s sins and restore us to a state of grace.But these are actors, so what you’re really getting is celebrities pretending to ritualistically debase themselves for the sake of moral preening. And my feeling is white people have a very, very serious problem.”These profound words can no longer fall on deaf ears.ITakeResponsibility.org was created, in partnership with the NAACP, to stand up for our Black friends and family in America. To be fully aware that you are in control and that you have the power to … Whoever she is, she has her chin down in submission, and her voice at its most serious, And that’s just the first nine seconds of a 122-second video.Kristen Bell appears at some point to responsibly take her share of the “I take responsibility” responsibility, but all I could think was: “I watched all four seasons of From there, things get worse, with actors and other nearly famous or formerly famous celebrities whom you think you might know or possibly once knew, making very sincere, if oftentimes outrageous and/or totally fake claims about race relations.Then there’s the website, which if anything is even more starkly pretentious than the video.
At the most personal levels and regardless of the circumstance, these incidents need to become teachable moments.This begins with white men and women taking responsibility for their personal role in eradicating racism in America — taking a stand and committing to change. As a highly-trained (not really) and highly-paid (way not really) internet pundit of some (ill) repute, it’s my job to watch these preening celebrities so that you don’t have to.We start with actress Sarah Paulson, whom you may or may not remember from Third up is someone I nearly recognize from something, but not well enough to positively ID her. Terms under which this service is provided to you
What you’re about to see will either cause you to belly laugh or give you a belly ache.Better yet: Don’t watch it. On Thursday, a calvacade of morally superior Hollywood stars issued a video announcing they would now take responsibility for everything from racially-insensitive jokes to police brutality, intoning “I take responsibility.” The video was produced by a leftist group called Campaign Zero, and stars Aaron Paul, Kristen Bell, Sarah Paulson, among others.
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ITakeResponsibility.org was created to stand up for our Black friends and family in America; rallying the White community, to educate and take action. Learn to Live in the Moment.