Antonio Sabato Jr says he's been blacklisted in Hollywood

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7. It's a question of when he was blacklisted (assuming he was).

A lot of times what happens is that people just don't want to work with some actors. It's a political statement, to (not) hire an actor for a lot of people. Sometimes they justify it, most often the don't. It has nothing to do with their product. It has to do with supporting or not supporting somebody.

It's like not patronizing a store because you don't like something about the owner. Perhaps he's (R) or Muslim, Jewish or black or a big NRA supporter, all of which are unrelated to the fact that what he's selling is garden equipment. Still, you avoid him because of something unrelated to his business. We find this to be a good thing when it serves us, but swap judgments so it's a horrible thing when it hurts "us." Hypocrisy, like humility, is falling out of the public moral lexicon.

If most directors and producers fall into one party, or there's peer pressure among them, the effect is the same whether it's official or unofficial. Much like racism doesn't have to be "institutional" to be racism. I guess Sabato would be saying it's "structural blacklisting" or "institutional blacklisting." As opposed to "Jim Crow" law-based blacklisting.