Bravery? Bravery? ... Bravery?

Ben Stein makes a good point.

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The idea that it is brave to stand up for gays in Hollywood, to stand up against Joe McCarthy in Hollywood (fifty years after his death), to say that rich white people are bad, that oil companies are evil -- this is nonsense. All of these are mainstream ideas in Hollywood, always have been, always will be. For the people who made movies denouncing Big Oil, worshiping gays, mocking the rich to think of themselves as brave -- this is pathetic, childish narcissism.

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No doubt the men and women who came to the Oscars in gowns that cost more than an Army Sergeant makes in a year, in limousines with champagne in the back seat, think they are working class heroes to attack America -- which has made it all possible for them. They are not. They would be heroes if they said that Moslem extremists are the worst threat to human decency since Hitler and Stalin. But someone might yell at them or even attack them with a knife if they said that, so they never will.

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I find it a little amusing that he says rich people aren't evil and then derides stars for wearing expensive clothing, but otherwise his point stands. All the "bravery" it takes to support gays, mock Jesus, and attack dead Republicans is but a thimble full compared to the ocean of bravery this brave soul (poor bastard?) has.

I can use strange metaphors if I want!