Tatiana Maslany is not here for celebrities who stay quiet. The“She-Hulk”star went on Mehdi Hasan’s show and called Tom Selleck and Michael Jordan“cowardly”for keeping politics out of their public work, arguing that all entertainment is political whether you like it or not. It’s a take that lit up social feeds almost instantly, mostly because the two men she named built legendary careers doing the exact opposite.
Selleck once explained that he saw little sense in alienating half the country when his job was to entertain it. Michael Jordan’s“Republicans buy sneakers too”is the philosophy in a nutshell, and it helped make him the most recognizable athlete on the planet. A column from radio host Peter Rosenberger argues that restraint is exactly why those careers lasted so long, and he points to his own quiet exit from the NFL and Gillette when the messaging shifted. No post, no protest. Just a remote and a different razor.
The bigger question here isn’t about any one celebrity. It’s about who the audience actually belongs to. The answer, according to the column, is nobody. Attention is borrowed, and it can be withdrawn without a single headline. So what do you think: should stars keep politics out of their work, or is everything political now? Drop your take in the comments.
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