During her speech at the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday night, far-left actress “Hanoi Jane” Fonda called on Hollywood elites to “resist” President Donald Trump.
While accepting the SAG Life Achievement Award, Fonda also defended being “woke” during her politically charged speech.
Fonda encouraged her fellow actors to have “empathy” for those who haven’t been persuaded by the radical Left agenda.
However, she then continued by attacking and smearing those who she disagrees with politically.
“What we [actors] create is empathy,” Fonda said.
“Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls.”
She described how actors have to relate to their characters.
She explained that those characters can include unlikable ones who are “bullies” and “misogynists.”
“Thinking Sebastian Stan in ‘The Apprentice,'” she continued.
“Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke.
“By the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people,” she claimed.
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Jane Fonda thinks woke means you “give a damn about people.”
Hey Hanoi Jane, did you “give a damn” about the American servicemen you betrayed in Vietnam?
Woke is just communist propaganda, so I'm not surprised that Jane proudly identifies with it.pic.twitter.com/TykY4CUyql
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Fonda urged her fellow actors to have empathy for people who would be “really hurt” by the Trump administration’s actions.
She claimed that even includes people “of a different political persuasion.”
“We need to call upon our empathy and not judge but listen from our hearts, and welcome them into our tent,” she said.
“Because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what’s coming at us.”
The 87-year-old actress compared the present moment to other times in recent history when Hollywood fought back against those in power in Washington.
“I made my first movie in 1958,” she said.
“It was at the tail end of McCarthyism when so many careers were destroyed.
“Today, it’s helpful to remember, though, that Hollywood resisted.”
The liberal actress rallied her peers to “be brave” because now was their “moment” to make a difference.
“Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements — like Apartheid or our Civil Rights movement or Stonewall — and ask yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge?” she asked.
“We don’t have to wonder anymore because we are in our documentary moment,” she continued.
“This is it, and it’s not a rehearsal!”
“We mustn’t for a moment kid ourselves about what’s happening.
“This is big time serious, folks,” she said.
“So let’s be brave.”
Fonda concluded her speech by calling on Hollywood to stay in “community,” “help the vulnerable” and foster an “inspiring vision of the future” that is “welcoming.”
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Relive Jane Fonda's unforgettable Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech. #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/S0DmD6zzjd
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