Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist best known for his works like Ender’s Game and the movie adaptation. Card is infamous for his strong social and political views, which include a sympathy for Communism and an antipathy for homosexuals. For over 25 years, he has purported that gay people are the results of sexual deviancy and abuse, and that homosexuality is directly related to sexual perversion.
“The dark secret of homosexual society–the one that dares not speak its name–is how many homosexuals first entered into that world through a disturbing seduction or rape or molestation or abuse, and how many of them yearn to get out of the homosexual community and live normally.”
Conveniently, when the Ender’s Game movie came out in 2013, Card renounced these hateful opinions on homosexuality.
Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp seems like a pretty nice guy, and his fan base has been millions deep since he first rose to fame in the ’80s. Still, no celebrity is free from a slip of the tongue that can land them in hot water. A few years back, Depp really ruffled some feathers when he made the following comparison.
Speaking of the intensity and invasiveness of photoshoots, he said, “Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow.”
Depp later apologized for his comments.
John Wayne
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American icon and enduring Hollywood star, John Wayne is known for his masculine roles in westerns and war movies like Sands of Iwo Jima, How the West Was Won, and The Green Berets. Given his status, maybe his racist remarks aren’t all to surprising.
In a 1971 interview with Playboy, he said “I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgement to irresponsible people […] I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans …] our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”