Jeers to Actor Matthew McConaughey
March 10, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
On March 3, McConaughey won the Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards for best leading actor in the film Dallas Buyers Club.
Jared Leto also won an Oscar for his role in the movie—a stirring true story of people going up against the medical establishment and society to fight for the right of AIDS patients to access medical treatment. Leto dedicated his award in part to "36 million people who have lost their life to AIDS."
But McConaughey said:
"Now, first off, I want to thank God. 'Cause that's who I look up to. He has graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand."
First, why is your life, Matthew McConaughey, more important than the billions of people around the world who suffer unnecessarily from poverty, war, rape and brutalization of women, and the persecution of LGBT people and millions of AIDS victims?
And, if in fact there was a god, a supposedly all-powerful being who can orchestrate an Oscar award for Matthew McConaughey while allowing millions to die of AIDS, what kind of god would that be? He would be a sadistic force for bigotry, unnecessary suffering and persecution with a bizarre obsession with the career of one actor.
It's a damn good thing God doesn't exist, and that all this bigotry and ignorance about AIDS is a product of a system—a system that can be overthrown.
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