That’s When You Give Hollywood the 🖕🏼 Finger
A speaker discusses their discovery of a movie called 'The Artist' and reveals that they were prevented by their Hollywood publicist from speaking publicly about child exploitation issues they learned about through the Innocent Justice Foundation, suggesting Hollywood's complicity in suppressing awareness of these crimes.
Summary
The speaker describes learning about what they characterize as a serious crime problem in the United States: child exploitation, which they claim the U.S. is the number one producer and consumer of globally, with victims averaging under five years old. The speaker mentions their involvement with the Innocent Justice Foundation, an organization that trained SWAT teams and police officers on investigative techniques for locating perpetrators, with the statistic that in one of five cases, law enforcement would find a child actually on site. Upon discovering a film called 'The Artist' that received significant Academy Award recognition (10 nominations, 5 wins including Best Picture), the speaker felt compelled to publicly discuss the child exploitation issue. However, their publicist at the time explicitly forbade them from speaking about this topic in Hollywood, which the speaker interprets as evidence of Hollywood's involvement or complicity in suppressing information about child exploitation. While the speaker acknowledges that not all of Hollywood is inherently bad, they assert that the industry is fundamentally complicit in enabling this silence around the issue.
Key Insights
- The speaker claims the United States is the number one producer and consumer of child exploitation in the entire world, with the average victim under the age of five
- The Innocent Justice Foundation trained SWAT teams and police officers on investigative techniques, and in one of five cases they would find a child actually on site during operations
- The speaker's publicist explicitly prohibited them from discussing child exploitation issues in Hollywood, citing industry norms
- The speaker argues that while not all of Hollywood is bad, the industry is 'totally part of' the problem through its complicity in suppressing discussion of child exploitation
- The speaker was motivated to speak out after learning about 'The Artist,' a film that received 10 Academy Award nominations and won 5, including Best Picture
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Transcript
[0:00] Why do you think they want to hide it? >> Probably cuz Hollywood's complicit to it. So, I found out about this movie called The Artist. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture. And I find out that the United States, like you said, is the number one producer and consumer of child in the entire world. The average victim is under the age of five. I was part of this organization called the Innocent Justice Foundation, which at the time were training SWAT teams and police officers saying like, here's how you basically figure out where the perp is. In one of five of those cases, you would find a child like…
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