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Originally Posted by vienna
The conservative presence in Hollywood goes way back to the very beginnings of the industry; director D. W. Griffith was an arch conservative, white supremacist, and segregationist who used his 1915 film Birth Of A Nation (original title; The Clansman) to glorify the Ku Klux Klan and demean Blacks (BTW, The Birth Of A Nation also gave the KKK their current look; the KKK was a rather motley crew snd Griffith wanted a more 'cinematic' look to the film's Klan characters, so his costume designer was ordered to come up with the now infamous costumes); the early decades of Hollywood are rife with conservative memes in regard to racial, and religious intolerance; it wasn't until after WW2 that the pendulum swung back to address the more overt and odious depictions...
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Sounds like a democrat to me.
