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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 444475" data-attributes="member: 35">Yes, that's my point exactly.  To me, saying "free Palestine" is an act of basic human decency rather than a political diatribe.  Even putting that aside, it's also a free speech issue.Of course, as a supporter of free speech, I still support the right of celebrities to go on a political diatribe if they so desire.  However, they run the risk of alienating large swaths of their audience by doing so.  Politics can be tricky to navigate, but there are many celebrities on both sides of the aisle who seem content with cultivating a niche audience.What I don't get are the celebrities who think they're somehow superior to their peers because they're politically opinionated.  As if there aren't already 1000s of talking heads.</blockquote>