Dwight Shultz didn't get the St. Elsewhere job due too....
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Would you be upset if someone lost a acting job due to being say, a Obama fan?
If a producer said "There's not going to be a Obama [expletive] on this show!" I wonder what hell they would go though....
For the most part we have employment-at-will in the United States, something that conservatives generally support.
Guess I am not going to support a "Blacklist" be it those who have communist leanings, or those who hold conservative views....
And for the record, in the primary in the last presidential election I voted for Hilary Clinton, so I am not as Conservative as I may sound.
Just because one producer allegedly had a bias, that doesn't mean there's a Hollywood-wide blacklist. The notion that Hollywood is run by liberals is ridiculous. Hollywood is run by wealthy businesspeople. And while such people tend to be conservative, they're also practical. Hollywood will produce anything that makes them profit, regardless of whether it has a political slant one way or the other. There are successful actors, directors and producers who are conservative, liberal, moderate, and apolitical, just as there are in every other profession.
And for the record, speaking as a liberal, I oppose job discrimination on the basis of political ideology or anything else. Job discrimination is anathema to liberal principles, so if any self-styled liberal producer denied someone a job because he liked Reagan, then that producer was betraying the principles he claimed to represent. So again, let's not commit the rhetorical and logical fallacy of using a single isolated example to condemn a whole group.
And for the record, speaking as a liberal, I oppose job discrimination on the basis of political ideology or anything else. Job discrimination is anathema to liberal principles, so if any self-styled liberal producer denied someone a job because he liked Reagan, then that producer was betraying the principles he claimed to represent. So again, let's not commit the rhetorical and logical fallacy of using a single isolated example to condemn a whole group.
How do you pronounce [expletive] ?
I don't know if anyone might find this interesting but here is Dwight's own words on such things. http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschultz/2009/03/16/the-liberal-bastille/
IMO, reading between the lines, it sounds like Dwight makes sure everyone knows his conservative leanings, if you catch my drift, so he might ask for what he gets a little bit.
IMO, reading between the lines, it sounds like Dwight makes sure everyone knows his conservative leanings, if you catch my drift, so he might ask for what he gets a little bit.
Very interesting read. I'm a liberal and I adore Dwight Schultz and don't give a damn what his politics are.
Thanks for the read, as I always Liked Dwight's work. And I don't get the sense that he spouts off very much (As if anything, he the only conservative on the set) and also how I miss the Paul Newman's and Charleton Heston's of the world.
Here's a tip for Dwight: don't bring your politics to work. The only people who get this kind of treatment are not those who simply have conservative leanings, but who try to push them on everyone else around them. Can you spell "hostile work environment"? I knew you could!
^ Where is the evidence that Dwight did that? Bruce Paltrow knew IN ADVANCE that Dwight was a conservative, and rejected him on that alone.
If prospective employers know that much about your politics, it's pretty obvious you ain't been keepin' it to yourself, y'know?
Except for a very few specific circumstances, there's no real protection in this country against people refusing to hire or associate with you because of what you say or how you behave.
Curious if anyone else in the St. Elsewhere cast are known conservatives? ( Obviously not Begley 
) Do we just have Dwight's word this happened? I find it odd that Paltrow would tell him "There's not going to be a Reagan [expletive] on this show!" to his face.
Mandel was great as Fiscus. Which was a bit of a suprise since previously I had only seen him as a prop comic. Not sure Schultz would have done it better.
) Do we just have Dwight's word this happened? I find it odd that Paltrow would tell him "There's not going to be a Reagan [expletive] on this show!" to his face. Mandel was great as Fiscus. Which was a bit of a suprise since previously I had only seen him as a prop comic. Not sure Schultz would have done it better.
There are any number of ways Paltrow could have known about it. It doesn't mean Dwight was screaming about politics on street corners or any of that crap.
It's still not illegal to deny someone a job for their politics. Funny how it's almost always conservatives who whine about it when it happens to them, though.
^ Well, as long as you acknowledge that you wouldn't complain if this happened in reverse, I guess we're even.
I have to say, I stopped reading when he called liberalism a "mental illness."