The Academy Awards is when Hollywood’s elite make themselves feel good about their corrupt industry and their progressive politics. It makes it all the funnier that these celebrities are running in the face of Native Americans that they stole their land.
Land acknowledgments are the weirdest and most insulting form of virtue signaling among left-wing political obsessives, particularly on the West Coast, where hippie progressives in Seattle even drop the lecture before hockey games. The Oscars was sure to include it this year as well, with actress Julianne Hough performing the sacred ceremony.
“We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash peoples, the traditional caretakers of this water and land,” Hough said. “We honor and pay our respects to indigenous communities here and around the world.”
The awkward, unmentioned part of every land acknowledgement, including this one, is that it is nothing more than an acknowledgement. These super wealthy Hollywood celebrities, who could live anywhere else in the country, aren’t going to give this land back to the Tongva, Tataviam, or Chumash peoples. They simply want those Native Americans to know that they know who they took the land from for their elitist party and lifestyles.
Hough may as well have said ‘Na na na na na na, your land is ours now,” because that is the only message a “land acknowledgment” gives if it isn’t followed up with giving up the land in question.
As it stands, Hollywood is only interested in the “oppression” of Native Americans who conquered other natives for land long before any of us were even born so that they can use it to show how tolerant and empathetic they are. This may actually be keeping with Hollywood tradition, going back to when actor Marlon Brando had an activist/actress, who according to research and members of her family faked her Native American heritage, go accept an Oscar for him so she could lecture Hollywood about its portrayal of Native Americans.
Now, 52 years later, Hollywood is bragging about setting up its entertainment empire on the stolen land of Native Americans, to whom it never plans to return that land. How is that for progress?
It is par for the course for how Hollywood operates, where supposedly good intentions justify moronic, counterproductive actions. You could see more of the same this year. In a show of support for transgender people, the Oscars made a film with a transgender lead one of the most nominated films ever. The film’s protagonist was a murderous cartel boss who gets a sex change.
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Similarly, in a show of support for the Palestinians, the Oscar for Best Documentary was gifted to a Palestinian propaganda film whose creators used the Oscar stage to peddle more Palestinian terrorist propaganda accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing. Everyone in the audience clapped like seals because, as always, Hollywood thinks good intentions are all that matter.
A word of advice for next year’s Oscars: The only “acknowledgement” we want is one that uber-privileged Hollywood celebrities have no idea what they are talking about and that we would all be better off if they stopped talking about politics forever.
