400 Celebs Sign Open Letter Backing Jimmy Kimmel, Including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Aniston

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1. The last few elections have proven that no one cares what celebrities think when it comes to politics.

2. No calls to boycott or pledges not to work with Disney or anything, this is useless.

3. Letter is nice but do these people care about a letter? They need to lose money and their reputation.

4. [Open letter](https://www.aclu.org/defend-free-speech-letter-kimmel):

   >**We the people** must never accept government threats to our freedom of speech. Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country.

   >Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after the government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation. In an attempt to silence its critics, our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives, and entertainers across the board. This runs counter to the values our nation was built upon, and our Constitution guarantees.

   >We know this moment is bigger than us and our industry. Teachers, government employees, law firms, researchers, universities, students and so many more are also facing direct attacks on their freedom of expression.

   >Regardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country. We also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power – because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us.

   >This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation. We encourage all Americans to join us, along with the ACLU, in the fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.

5. oh no **strongly worded letter** strikes again

   what will maga ever do

   how about refuse to work with disney? put your fucking money where your mouth is. general strikes will be the only way anything gets done ever anymore. anything less is virtue signalling

6. Damn. Doesn’t protocol mandate some sort of gradual escalation? You can’t just go right to the strongly worded letter. What are they? Barbarians?

7. Unsubscribing from Disney Plus > some letter

8. That’ll show ’em…

   They should sing a song over Zoom too for maximum celebrity impact. So useful!

9. That’ll have them quaking in their boots. Lol.

10. Ah yes. This ought to do it. Did the letter also sing “Imagine” when you open it?

11. Obviously. Artists are overwhelmingly liberal.

12. Oh boy a letter. That will show them

13. The landing page of the Hollywood Reporter is creepy af, like all of Hollywood, I suppose. Not going to read.

    If the letter states, we’re taking time off for reflection and suggest you do the same. See you in the Spring, if you’ve come to your senses. What future do celebrities have under a dictator?

    If it simply conveys their disappointment, I’m shocked they couldn’t find a thousand celebrities. 😏

14. Neat. A letter. Bet that will do so much

    Was it scathing? Can you hardly believe it? Did it leave them Freedom of Speech-less?

    Writing letters doesn’t do shit. Money does. The celebrities are the ones with money. Do something more than autographs

15. Rational thinking and communication is not how to win this

16. Damn they really did it, they all finally said enough is enough and… _checks notes_ …co-signed a strongly worded letter.

    God we’re so fucked. Celebrities aren’t going to save us.

17. How many of these celebs also signed the petition to free Woody Allen from drugging and ass raping his step daughter? These are not good people…

18. So the high priestess and witches of satanism? Isn’t that something iykyk

19. They don’t want to be muzzled and have their rights to open their mouths taken away. . Congratulations for standing up to dictatorship 

20. I would think the unions could put pressure on the entire system. Take a stand and tell everyone they mean business in backing one of their own.

21. I want to know which ones are refusing to sign

22. Meryl, that’s such a wild name

23. That’ll certainly make this administration reflect on their actions, repent and restore the rule of law

24. No one is going to care unfortunately

25. This should fix everything

26. But it’s the affiliates that don’t want the show. It’s not what he said (the one instance) but the overall show itself. I mean his ratings were in the toilet before he said anything about Charlie Kirk

27. I need the opposite list so I know which movies or shows I have to stop watching.

28. He’ll probably just cancel Hollywood next

29. Why not purchase Disney stock and vote for a new board of directors? Jimmy Kimmel is merely an employee. His First Amendment rights remain intact; he’s only lost access to a platform he doesn’t own.

30. Where were they when Disney fired Gina Carano for relatively tame tweets?

31. They were all quiet when he did blackface though

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