Actor and comedian Rob Schneider claims there is no shortage of conservatives in Hollywood but his many conservative friends are "scared" of speaking out for risk of tanking their careers.
Speaking on Fox News' Fox & friends, Schneider said his conservative friends genuinely “fear cancel culture too much to speak up.” He also said he has been shunned in Hollywood for openly sharing his conservative views and he had people who “didn’t return calls as often.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Rob Schneider: I’ve had it with the Democratic Party!www.youtube.com
When asked about former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard's decision to leave the Democratic Party, Schneider said he wasn't surprised at all.
“As an actor, you’re always coming from a place of trying to get work. But at a certain point, you know, you have to worry about, I mean, I’m in my 50s now, late 50s... I worry more about the freedoms of my kids. I’m a grandfather now."
“So at a certain point … It’s really weird. You know something’s wrong when people say, ‘If you put God, family and country first’ that’s somehow controversial. How is that controversial?"
"So at a certain point you have to say ‘enough’ and stand up to it.”
Schneider went on to say he lost friends because of his outspoken conservative views and suggested others in Hollywood are afraid of experiencing the same.
“A lot of people I’m friends with in Hollywood, they lean towards the right, but they’re just scared of it, because it really is like a mob of ideologues that you feel will attack you."
“It’s really not necessarily based on anything but like this religious architecture in their thinking.”
Schneider's remarks opened him up to significant mockery online.
\u201cAnother B-actor who plays the victim.\nWe can't help the fact he does not have much talent.\u201d— Maka Link (@Maka Link) 1665619139
\u201cRob Schneider has no career so of course he left Hollywood\u201d— Headless Gal (@Headless Gal) 1665607890
\u201cI dunno man. Maybe the dems could have stopped you from making "The Hot Chick." https://t.co/MRmzjH26bx\u201d— Dan McCoy (@Dan McCoy) 1665601760
\u201cMan! Go make a copy! Who cares what Rob Schneider thinks?\u201d— Sassyblacknerd \ud83c\udf19\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83d\ude36\u200d\ud83c\udf2b\ufe0f (@Sassyblacknerd \ud83c\udf19\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83d\ude36\u200d\ud83c\udf2b\ufe0f) 1665597962
\u201cRob Schneider Reveals To World Why He Appeared on 'Fox & Friends': 'My career is dead and I need attention'.\n\nFixed that for ya.\u201d— I'm Not Bitter... I'm Tangy! \ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@I'm Not Bitter... I'm Tangy! \ud83c\udf3b\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1665598821
\u201cRepublicans want to:\n\nBan books\nBan TV shows\nBan movies\nBan history\nBan abortion\nBan Muslims\nBan gay marriage\nBan transgenders\n\nBonus: Jews will not replace us\n\nSchneider: Can you believe how oppressive Democrats are? https://t.co/y50NQHrDU3 via @mediaite\u201d— 1stRepublic14thStar (@1stRepublic14thStar) 1665611179
\u201cTulsi Gabbard got one person to follow her.... Anti-Vaxxer Rob Schneider.... Says Tulsi was right to leave behind the woke mob on Fox. If being woke is calling out racism/hatred and helping/caring for others then I'm woke AF!\n\nI hope his daughter isn't nuts too, I love Elle King.\u201d— Queen Thicctoria IV (@Queen Thicctoria IV) 1665601405
\u201cSchneider says Gabbard is right to leave behind Democrats' woke 'mob of idealogues'\n\nYet they gladly follow Trump in his white supremacist cult. https://t.co/IBL130w01u\u201d— M. Mondegreen (@M. Mondegreen) 1665597314
Schneider has gone on record before to say he is willing to "lose it all" for his MAGA beliefs.
In August, Schneider—who rose to fame starring on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s—told conservative political commentator Glenn Beck he's long past caring about his career and instead cares about "my children and the country they're going to live in."
Schneider has continued to make the rounds on the conservative talk show circuit in recent months ahead of the release of his latest film Daddy Daughter Trip which is slated for release this week.
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