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Hollywood’s hypocrites are at it again.
This time Hollywood is mobilizing to protest an ostensibly supportable cause. The glitzy Beverly Hills Hotel is partly owned by the Sultan of Brunei, one of the richest men in the world. His small oil-rich country in Southeast Asia recently adopted Sharia law, which among other things, provides for the stoning of homosexuals and adulterers.
As a result, Hollywood is boycotting the iconic institution, including its much beloved restaurant The Polo Lounge, until the sultan sells it.
“The City of Beverly Hills urges the government of Brunei to divest itself of the Beverly Hills Hotel and any other properties it may own in Beverly Hills,” a resolution passed last week by the Beverly Hills City Council reads.
In the abstract, this doesn’t sound like such a horrible campaign. After all, stoning to death homosexuals and adulterers isn’t a particularly humane policy. But upon closer inspection, it is hard to see what good the boycott could actually accomplish.
There are several issues to parse here. First, there’s an element of hypocrisy. Since when did Hollywood have a problem with the world’s worst regimes? There are countless stories of celebrities accepting large sums of money to give private performances to dictators with abominable human rights records, like the late Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Turkmenistan’s totalitarian ruler Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov.
Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, among many others in Hollywood, have expressed their undying affection for Fidel Castro, whose inhumane communist Cuban regime has enslaved a population for over 50 years. You can bet no one in Hollywood has received even a mild rebuke from their brethren for embracing Castro. Quite the opposite.
And what about all the celebrities and film studio executives in Hollywood who have embraced the United Arab Emirates? Breitbart pointed out last week how Hollywood film studios have partnered with the ruling families of the emirates on various projects and how countless celebrities flock to the beaches of Dubai every year. Matt Damon’s movie “Promised Land,” for instance, was partly funded by government money from Abu Dhabi. The UAE may not quite mandate the stoning of homosexuals and adulterers, but it does impose jail time and deportation for engaging in adulterous and homosexual behavior.
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