Watching Piers Morgan light into Hollywood’s latest act of self-harm was a welcome reminder that someone still has the guts to call out elite hypocrisy. Morgan rightly blasted Disney for swapping actual dwarf actors for CGI and stand-ins in the new Snow White remake, pointing out the very real victims of woke virtue-signalling — working performers who lost out on roles and paychecks.
WWE veteran Dylan “Hornswoggle” Postl didn’t sit quietly while a self-appointed woke tastemaker lectured people he was born to represent, and his blunt pushback should silence the sanctimonious for a while. Hornswoggle argued that these are roles literally made for dwarf actors and that snatching them away under the banner of “progress” is an insult to the very community it claims to help.
Let’s be clear about how we got here: an industry that preaches representation one minute and erases whole professions the next is suffering a moral blind spot. Peter Dinklage’s public criticism of the remake and Disney’s choice to go with non-dwarf substitutes detonated the debate, but the bigger scandal is a Hollywood that alternates between lecturing the country and making decisions that plainly harm the exact people they profess to defend.
The spectacle of a “woke activist” telling a dwarf what he ought to be called and who should play him is grotesque cultural arrogance, and Piers Morgan called it exactly that. This isn’t nuanced social theory; it’s a parade of moral posturing with the practical effect of taking livelihoods away from ordinary actors who already have far fewer opportunities.
Conservative Americans should remember this as more than an entertainment story — it’s the latest example of elites rewriting reality to fit ideological fads while ignoring the consequences. When activists and executives swap real jobs for feel-good optics, the only winners are the virtue-signallers and the losers are everyday people who depend on honest work and fair casting.
If anything useful came from the row, it’s that ordinary citizens are waking up to the yawning hypocrisy of those who lecture us about inclusion while excluding the very people they claim to champion. We should side with Hornswoggle and real working actors, demand that casting be fair and honest, and stop letting Hollywood condescendingly decide who gets to have a shot at the American dream.
