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I think people are just really tired of this horrible man living like he doesn't have a care in the world. He is a rotten person. You don't have to dislike him to know that. [/quote]

I’ve been confused by some of the things people are saying about Baldwin, here and on Twitter, and the comparisons they’re making. Then today I read an article about how Conservative Twitter is turning this into a political issue, and everything finally made more sense.

To make enormous generalizations, right wingers seem more likely to either support or attack a famous figure based on which side that person is on politically. I won’t say left wingers never consider politics when they choose their general likes and dislikes, but in specific situations they’re more likely to look at specific facts. Context over politics.

Here, a lot of lefties are saying “I don’t like Alec Baldwin.” People who lean left politically, especially women, often have intense objections when rich men with anger issues bully others without facing consequences. (I’m not calling the shooting “bullying,” I’m talking about his well-known history before.) I loved 30 Rock, and Baldwin and I share a general political leaning. Neither of those things puts me on AB’s “side” here. I didn’t like him before, and aside from some human sympathy for anyone in such an awful situation, I still don’t like him now.

Meanwhile, a few posters here seem to expect all progressives to support Baldwin and then accuse anyone who doesn’t of harboring unnatural personal vendettas. But most of us aren’t approaching all this from a political frame. Personally, I don’t even see Baldwin as a political figure. He’s just an actor, like hundreds of other famous actors. And either way, politics, power, and fame might play into who gets charged with a crime here (ideally they don’t matter to justice, but let’s be realistic), but they have nothing to do with movie production procedures, gun safety, or factual questions of legal liability.

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+100000. Alec is a terrible liberal and a minor nuisance to conservatives. I think he plays up the concept that people dislike him for political reasons because it's easier than acknowledging that people dislike him because he is violent, screams homophobic slurs, attacked Weinstein's victims while defending Weinstein, and has regressive views about virtually everything. He's not some liberal hero.  And for conservatives-- well he played Trump on TV. No one hated Dana Carvey for playing Bush. Or any SNL actor; ever, for playing any political figure. And Alec wants us to believe that people hate him because he played Trump. I mean, he basically is Trump.  [/quote]

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