More than 100 celebrities are pledging to work to deny Donald Trump the presidency.
“Will you stand against Donald Trump and the hate he promotes?”
That is the question being asked by MoveOn.org Political Action‘s #UnitedAgainstHate campaign.
As Bloomberg reports, “Julianne Moore, Bryan Cranston, Kerry Washington, Mark Ruffalo, Neil Patrick Harris, Lena Dunham, Shonda Rhimes, and Macklemore are among more than 100 celebrities joining a campaign to urge Americans to deny Donald Trump the White House.”
The celebrities are all signatories to an “Open Letter to the Voters of the United States.“
The letter begins by explaining that they “are a coalition of artists who, today, are joining millions of Americans in our commitment to defeat the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump.”
“We believe it is our responsibility to use our platforms to bring attention to the dangers of a Trump presidency, and to the real and present threats of his candidacy,” the letter continues.
The letter gravely warns: “Donald Trump wants to take our country back to a time when fear excused violence, when greed fueled discrimination, and when the state wrote prejudice against marginalized communities into law…. When dangerous and divisive leaders have come to power in the past, it has been in part because those of goodwill failed to speak out for themselves or their fellow citizens. Some of us come from the groups Trump has attacked. Some of us don’t. But, as history has shown, it’s often only a matter of time before the “other” becomes me.
The letter also notes that Trump’s “rhetoric and policy proposals exclude, degrade, and harm,” the following groups of people:
- Mexican and Latino people
- Black people
- Muslim people
- LGBTQ people
- Women and their health care providers
- Asian people
- Refugees
- People with disabilities
- Working class people
- American prisoners of war
- …and those of countless other marginalized communities.
The letter ends with a call for “every American to join us–to stand together on the right side of history, to use the power of our voice and the power of our vote to defeat Donald Trump and the hateful ideology he represents.”
We are united against violence.
We are united against sexism.
We are united against racism.
We are united against xenophobia.
We are united against homophobia.
We are united against fascism.
We are Artists
#UnitedAgainstHate.
Join us.
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