Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Kevin Spacey And Identity Politics

 Actor Kevin Spacey is known for the series House Of Cards and has had an acting career that began in the 1980s in series such as The Equalizer, Crime Story, and Wiseguy.   His career kept advancing in the 1990s and beyond.

Now he stands accused of molesting actor Anthony Rapp - best known for Star Trek: Discovery and also for his turn as medical criminal twin Matthew Spevak in SVU: Bound with Jane Krakowski - when Rapp was fourteen.   Spacey in essence confirmed he did molest Rapp, and then cloaked it by announcing he is gay. It is a defense reminiscent of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, who resigned in 2004 to avoid going to jail in an extortion scheme involving his ex-lover, and tried to cover his ass about it by claiming "I am gay."

Spacey's quasi-covert admission to molestation of a minor serves as a striking metaphor for Hollywood and also the entire movement of identity politics - stop being mean to me, because I'm (insert PC identity here).   For Hillary Clinton it is always stop being mean to me, I'm a woman.   Spacey now uses being gay as an excuse - you have no right to judge me, because I'm gay - and it's more telling about perverted lifestyles than he's letting on -  a fact that may drive some of the backlash he's been getting for it.

The famous Martin Luther King Jr. statement where he discusses judging people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character works both ways - Kevin Spacey wants to use being gay as an entitlement just as Hillary Clinton wants being a woman to be her entitlement.   This is the heart of identity politics - using what one is as entitlement.

Except entitlement has no place in life.    Not for Hillary Clinton, not for Kevin Spacey, no one.

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