Business Insider Pulls Conservative Column About Scarlett Johansson Playing Trans Man

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Daniella Greenbaum has quit Business Insider instead of being “paralyzed by fear” after her column was pulled. But that won’t end this controversy. The way the left operates today, this will follow her around forever, and her reputation will be forever sullied. The character assassination will be that Greenbaum wrote a “transphobic” column, or some such. Leftists will do all they can to keep her from getting hired elsewhere. The left is evil, and getting worse by the day.

“Business Insider Pulls Conservative Column About Scarlett Johansson Playing Trans Man,” by Maxwell Tani, Daily Beast, July 10, 2018:

Business Insider removed a post about portrayals of trans individuals in Hollywood after staff complained internally about the column, saying the article did not meet the publication’s standards.

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On Friday, conservative columnist Daniella Greenbaum published a piece titled: “Scarlett Johansson is being unfairly criticized for doing her job after being cast as a transgender man.”

In the piece, she criticized the backlash to the decision to cast Johansson as a trans man in the upcoming movie, Rub and Tug.

“The job of an actor is to represent someone else,” Greenbaum wrote. “Johansson’s identity off the screen is irrelevant to the identities she plays on the screen. That’s what she’s paid for. And if she does her job, she’ll make everyone forget about the controversy in the first place.”

Several Business Insider staff told The Daily Beast that some employees were offended by the column.

The publication took down the piece on Friday, and appended an editor’s note to the page on Tuesday saying that “Business Insider removed the column because, upon further review, we decided it did not meet our editorial standards.”

The decision also prompted the publication to alter its own internal editorial policies.

In an email to editors on Monday obtained by The Daily Beast, global editor-in-chief Nich Carlson announced that BI would create an internally available list of employees who had “volunteered to talk about culture and identity issues” to other staff. Further, Carlson also announced that “culturally sensitive columns, analysis, and opinion pieces” would now be reviewed by the company’s executive editors before publication.

“Editors should make sure we are not publishing shallow, ‘hot takes,’ but instead, fully thought-out arguments that reflect and respect the opposing view,” Carlson said. “There should be no partisan name-calling, e.g. ‘social justice warriors,’ ‘libtards,’ or ‘rednecks.’ Opinion and arguments should feel reported and researched, and not like quick reactions.”

“This does not mean our argument-writers should not take big swings, or that they must have opinions shared by everyone in our newsroom.”…

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

They will censor anything that does not meet their perverted “standards”.

Like Sharia Police in Uk are not willing to protect those who speak truth about islam https://tinyurl.com/ya6j3phj

Instead go after those who expose the jihadi crimes and oppose their Left/Liberal supporters !

poetcomic1
poetcomic1
5 years ago

Only a transgender can play a transgender when transgenders ARE playing transgenders because that is what a transgender IS. It gets very confusing.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago

“Whenever traditional Judeo-Christian values come into conflict with morally inverted/relativist/depraved, subversive, anti-biology, anti-science, anti-family, anti-children, anti-humanity, anti-reality Greenwich Village/San Francisco/Fire Island ‘values’, it’s Judeo-Christian values that must yield and give way.” We see this here, and we saw this in Britain over a week ago when a Christian doctor and father of four who held to Biblical and scientific truths about there being only two “genders” was fired for not bowing down to such perverted dictates that brook NO respect for the various and numerous differences between male and female, and seek to smash them for purely ideological purposes.

No different from the battle between Western values and Sharia law. “Homophobia” and “transphobia” are propaganda terms designed to silence any and all opposition to the accelerating homosexualization and transgenderization of society (and also to silence those seeking to preserve traditional morality and values) – all to ensure there are no real men to defend Western society when the Muslims gain enough traction to plot a takeover – in much the same way as “Islamophobia” is used as a weapon against those who stand up against the jihad terror and pro-Sharia agenda being forced down everybody’s throats. Curt Schilling was right: It really doesn’t take that much in a group to start and cause trouble for the rest of society. Winston Churchill’s words about Muslims as a minority vs. as a majority can ring just as true viz LGBT supremacist “leadership.”

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago

And P.S. Once again, we see the validity of the quote (misattributed to Voltaire): “To learn who rules all over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” If this is not proof positive that LGBT’s now maintain absolute control over the media and other avenues of communication, then what is?

RCCA
RCCA
5 years ago

If a cisgendered person can not play a transgender role, can a transgender actor play a cisgender character? Or are they just limited to transgender parts? Could a gay man play a heterosexual romantic leading man? Sure, Rock Hudson did it. Marlene Deitrich played the female sex symbol and she was bisexual. Isn’t the point of acting that the viewer suspends disbelief and accepts whatever character the actor is playing? Wasn’t that the mark of excellence in acting? Not anymore.

Now a movie has to serve a political purpose of advancing a cause, in this case, transgenderism. The fact that the movie explores the character of Jean Marie Gill and leaves the viewer to form his/her own opinion of whether this was a man in a woman’s body, isn’t enough. You’re not allowed to have your own opinion. And you’re not allowed to say that either. If you do you are labelled as a right winger.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago

Two main takeaway things from this:
a) To paraphrase one of Pamela’s quotes: “Whenever traditional Judeo-Christian values come into conflict with radical fringe Greenwich Village/San Francisco/Fire Island ‘values’, it is Judeo-Christian values that must yield and give way.” How different is this from Sharia restrictions on criticizing Islam? We saw this “bathhouse over Bible” scenario play out over a week ago in Britain when a doctor – a Christian and father of four – was fired by the NHS for holding fast to Biblical, biological and scientific truths about there being two “genders” and not bowing down to the toxic ideology of LGBT supremacist “leadership” that holds otherwise. “Transgenderism” is the Left’s latest front in their long-standing war against “toxic masculinity,” “white male heterosexual privilege” and basic Judeo-Christian tenets – and about ensuring that there are no “real men” left in the West to defend society from the coming Islamic-NWO takeover. The push to transgenderize society and turn our boys into literal eunuchs is supported to the hilt by the likes of Antifa, Occupy, BLM and #MeToo, which shows just how subversive the intent behind it is – rooted in a deliberate and malicious rebellion against G-d, nature, biology and genetics. “Homophobia” and “transphobia” are propaganda terms designed to silence any and all opposition to this accelerating drive to further homosexualize and transgenderize society, as well as to silence those intent on preserving what is left of traditional morality and values, much like “Islamophobia” is a weapon used against those rightly opposed to the jihad terror and Sharia agenda being forced down everybody’s throats.
b) This proves yet again the saying, long misattributed to the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, that “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” If this episode does not prove the breadth and depth of LGBT supremacist “leadership’s” control over the media, Hollywood, and other avenues of communication, then what does?

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago

P.S. Now comes word that Ms. Johansson has caved to LGBT supremacist demands and pulled out of that project. But this begs the question: Why would Hollywood promote transgenderism – other than to spread it and to increase their numbers amongst the population?

But she is a typical leftist anyway. Back when she was dating Sean Penn, they attended a fete headed up by the wife of al Jazeera’s sugar daddy.

Lydia Church
Lydia Church
5 years ago

Well put!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Who cares either way? If this is what counts for “national news” in our country these days, then we really do need help, I’m afraid.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

It’d be like if a non-Muslim/non-Arab actor were to sign up to play Yasser Arafat in a biopic about him. You’d see the same scenario play out. But no matter which way you slice it, it still comes up supremacism.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago

Fascinating article. However, what’s a scarlet something or other? Never heard of it.

satcatchet
satcatchet
5 years ago

Rub and Tug should give a hint!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  satcatchet

I had to go to one of those newfangled search engine things … and I was directed to the “Urban Dictionary”. I had no idea that this scarlet whatever, worked in a “massage parlor”.

lilyred
lilyred
5 years ago

Oh, the dilemmas… Snigger.

satcatchet
satcatchet
5 years ago

Who would be intertained by the likes of this fake news publication? Business Insider is not free speech nor is it fair and balanced news.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  satcatchet

Unless you’re a member of Congress, or THEIR STAFF, insider trading carries significant consequences. So, is “Business Insider” a publication directed at The House of Representatives?

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