Joaquin Phoenix Discusses Cancel Culture During Oscars Speech

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"Joaquin Phoenix used his Best Actor win at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday to continue his awards-season trend of putting sociopolitical issues in the spotlight. In a sprawling acceptance speech, he touched on social inequality, the cruelty of the food industry toward animals, systemic inequality, and even cancel culture. He closed out by quoting his late brother, River Phoenix."

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[stephenr]

Joker was not about an incel male, it was about mental health. Literally, they cut all the funding to mental health in the movie - there's a scene dedicated to that when it occurred.

[Mya-fufy]

I totally get what Joaquin is saying. He wasn't trying say that people and animals are the same. He was saying that we have to look at what we're doing as "normal", and some things we see as "normal" need to be changed. Its a good message if you have a big picture state of mind.

[ErickE]

Animal rights are a root issue in regards to climate change, Joaquin is very animal rights focused as well I can’t fault him for speaking on his passions

[jamiesj]

There's no issue at all with mixing in animal rights with all the other atrocities. You can walk and chew gum at the same time.

[gilkidron]

Oh no, you guys feel uncomfortable with him talking about animal rights, because you don't really care or do something about it and that makes you feel like a Republican. Then we should probably not talk about animal rights because what's important is not the exterminating of billions of animals but how comfortable you feel discussing it

[riotdrone]

why would you feel uncomfortable about someone advocating for animal rights? that's not an outrageous position, the cruelty and destruction we wreak on the natural world is a huge issue

[allyjay]

I've been vegan for over 10 years now since I became financially independent bc my fam slaughtered my Cow named Woody I raised from a calf. They told me he had Mad Cow disease and had to be put down but fed him to me without my knowledge and Only realized the truth as an adult and I was mortified. Me personally, I am so far beyond racism, it's all about Specism now. I'm not a crazy Peta Person bc people still treat other Human beings like animals so to expect them to treat Animals like People is a lost cause unfortunately. I still value Human life over Animals but there are a few people I would let drown if it came between saving them or my animals. People like to think animals are lesser creatures yet they are animals themselves in that have no humanity to speak of...

[Neckbeardlevel]

How can you people see through the "Bernie Bro" narrative, but buy into the "white Male rage" narrative when it comes to Joker. There was nothing racial whatsoever about the film

[BranDenhauer]

The message of Joker has nothing to do with incels. It's about society abandoning people suffering from mental illness and how easy it is for them to fall through the cracks. In Joker, the consequences are taken to a fantasized extreme where the Joker inspires thousands of disenfranchised mentally ill people to rise up against the system and society that abandoned them. In reality, the consequence is that they often just end up on the streets, homeless and hopeless, their shattered minds still dreaming of a world where someone loves them.

[TheItalian]

I guess we can’t care about multiple issues at the same time

[kevinheller]

The treatment of animals is more horrible than any treatment of humans

[zoekelly]

Joker isn’t a right wing film it’s addressing mental health issues, wealth inequality and political corruption. These are issues that effect people on all sides of the political spectrum.

[hamiltonwtroy]

To focus on animal rights, veganism, etc., as many of these comments and the TYT panel has, is to "champion different causes", as Joaquin said in his speech, and perhaps miss one of the main points of his message: recognize our commonality as sentient creatures. He's asking us to see the forest for the trees, with the individual tress being the way we divide ourselves into race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political parties, and even species. The "forest" would be our overarching commonality as sentient creatures, which all feel pleasure and pain, have fears and desires, share the same basic needs and even many of the same dreams (think of Maslow's hierarchy of needs). The dairy cow is just one of many examples of how we fail to see the suffering we inflict on other sentient creatures because we fail to see the things we have in common with them. The cow shares 80% of human DNA, and as Joaquin pointed out, cries out in anguish when we take her baby from her - the same way a human would. If we were to ever become aware of our commonality, and how we all rely on each other and our limited natural resources, we would perhaps treat each other and the natural world with more compassion.

[growthisfreedomunitedearth]

He included animals!! As a wiccan, I freaking love it. Thank God he's calling out entitlement and human narcissism.

[AtariDad]

What Joker "really symbolizes" is how the mentally ill among us are constantly ignored and abused. You people constantly whine about how hard it is for minorities to get jobs, but that's nothing compared to the trouble that disabled people have simply holding onto jobs, worrying whether or not today will be the day where their manager gets tired of all the mistakes they make and kicks them out the door. You look at the movie _Joker_ and all you can see is a white man, not a mentally ill man whom society has forgotten. It's disgusting that you people are taking a movie that has a pointed message about how society mistreats the mentally ill and instead decide to talk about how it supposedly promotes white supremacy. Aren't you the same people who are always going on about Intersectionality
? But no, racial narratives gotta take priority, even if it's at the cost about having a conversation about the mental illness.

[ambergetsbutterflies]

I don’t think he’s lumping. He’s a human and he’s passionate about more than one thing. Media tends to categorize people by putting them in a box with a singular topic but most people care about a range of things.

[lourdesbennett]

Seriously, I see the thought he gave. Animals just as humans, we go through so much. Women seen as not qualified to raise a child get her child taken at birth, ignoring mothers cry (cps, prison, mental wards, hospitals).

[invero]

"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields" Leo Tolstoy

About 7.5 million animals killed an hour... and that's counting only the land animals. Those are the facts. What does make you uncomfrotable? the messenger (Joaquin Phoenix) or the message? Is it's the message, maybe is about time you start asknig yourself those uncomfortbale questions.

[christopherpeel]

TYT look at your like to dislike ratio anytime you post a video about animal rights, you guys have a HUGE blind spot to it.

TYT really needs a progressive that understands what the meat, egg, and dairy industry is doing, in particular the atrocities of factory farming. It also relates directly to the climate crisis, rising healthcare costs, burning of Amazon, free speech (Ag gag laws), and money in politics.

[Human_Herbivore]

Please consider that every animal values their life just as much as you do yours. That's why it is important to recognise that they suffer cruelty and pain as much as anyone. This was a voice for those who often don't have one.