Why Did Johnny Depp's Career Suffer, But Not Brad Pitt's?
Whilst Johnny Depp was being cancelled for standing up to Amber Heard's allegations, Brad Pitt was getting an Oscar, whilst remaning tight-lipperd about Angelina Jolie's allegations of abuse.
There are TWO theories to this:
One: Any person who does the HONOURABLE thing and stand up to a false allegation, will suffer the punishment. And why do I say it's a false allegation in Depp's case, and not in Pitt's? Because an INNOCENT person REFUTES an allegation. A GUILTY person hopes that it will disappear. An INNOCENT person takes umbrage in being lied about. A GUILTY person hopes that if they keep quiet, people will forget. NO ONE would draw attention to a particularly serious criminal allegation (i.e. spousal abuse) UNLESS they were INNOCENT. A genuinely GUILTY person would have NOTHING to gain from highlighting an anonymous allegation in The New York Times.
Two: Brad Pitt and Amber Heard both benefit from BLONDE BLUE-EYED ANGLO SAXON *PRIVILEGE* a privilege I've witnessed on several occasions, ever since I was beaten-up and mocked as a kid by the popular blond(e) kids at school for being 'Jewish' and 'too dark'. Look at how people SIMP for Princess Diana (despite the fact she pushed her step-mother down a flight of stairs on more than one occasion), and Taylor Swift (despite the latter coming from a very privileged and wealthy family, and being treated by the far-right as an Aryan poster-girl for a long time, something that took years of pressure for her to *finally* speak out against; and look at how everyone hates Kanye West, a Black man for being a 'Nazi', and enjoy pitting blonde blue-eyed NAZI poster-girl Taylor Swift against a Black Man who'd be one of the FIRST to be killed were the Nazis ever to gain power). Johnny Depp is that weird, swarthy druggie who makes Tim Burton films (and by the way, there is verifiable evidence that Depp may not have Indigenous American ancestry BUT does have recent BLACK ancestry, hence his dark looks). And Angelina Jolies is that dark, high cheek-boned weirdo who used to drink blood. But Pitt and Heard are blonde, blue-eyed smiley All-American WASPs and so they just 'must be innocent', right? π
Wake up people. Aryan privilege is for real. The far-right have a vested interest in perpetuating it, but why aren't my fellow *leftists* speaking out against it? Why are they damning *all* whites with the *same* animus, rather than doing what we used to do back in the day, and recognise that even *within* the white race, there are hierarchies of privilege (which partly explains anti-Semitism and anti-Hispanic rhetoric, but also explains why Eastern Europeans, Italians and Turks, and Catholics in general, among others, have been subjected to historical prejudice despite ostensibly being white).