JAKARTA - A clip of Anne Hathaway's 2018 speech is back in the media after being called a "new speech". A number of conservative figures have criticized its content. Elon Musk also commented.
HuffPost quoted Wednesday, July 29, reported that the video was recorded when Hathaway received the National Ally for Equality Award from the LGBTQ organization Human Rights Campaign. In his speech, the Oscar winner spoke about equality and discrimination.
Hathaway said he lived in the midst of a harmful and widely accepted myth. According to him, the myth places heterosexuality, cisgender identity, and white people as the main standard.
Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity corresponds to the sex assigned at birth.
"This myth is false. However, for too many people, this myth feels very real," Hathaway said.
He said the myth had long been believed and eventually was considered something natural. According to Hathaway, this view is dangerous because it only prioritizes certain types of love, body, and skin color, and then rejects people who are considered different.
Hathaway also said that this view keeps money and power in the hands of a few people. He closed his speech by stating that he rejected and wanted to destroy the myth.
Last week, a right-leaning X account re-uploaded the clip and called it a new speech. The account also wrote that celebrities were supporting "the destruction of biological reality".
The video went viral when the public's attention was on The Odyssey, a film directed by Christopher Nolan which also starred Hathaway. HuffPost attributed the reappearance of the footage to the criticism of a number of conservative figures against the film.
Kyle Becker, a conservative writer and influencer, later shared the same video.
"Kids, stay away from woke propaganda. It will damage your minds worse than any drug," Becker wrote.
The term woke originally related to awareness of social injustice. Now, the term is often used by conservatives to mock progressive views.
Becker also called Hathaway's speech a Marxist-inflected critical theory delivered to people without critical thinking skills.
Elon Musk also responded to the upload. He previously criticized Nolan's version of The Odyssey and promised to create an artificial intelligence version that he called "historically accurate".
"He just reads scripts written by other people. There is no critical thinking at all here," Musk wrote.
Fox News host Tomi Lahren also shared the footage. He judged Hathaway did not take any risks when delivering his speech.
"He sacrificed nothing. He lost nothing. But he is praised as a brave and decisive figure. Because of what? Words," Lahren wrote.
The video that triggered the criticism was recorded in 2018, not a new speech as stated in the circulated post.
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