Dwayne Johnson is facing backlash for staying quiet on politics, with “Star Trek” icon George Takei telling him that “silence is complicity” and “Stand By Me” actor Wil Wheaton adding: “So disappointing to find out he is such a coward.”
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“Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s recent comments to Esquire about wanting to ‘keep my politics to myself’ have divided fans, with some calling out his silence,” Takei wrote. “Silence is complicity”
”So disappointing to find out he is such a coward,” Wheaton wrote in response to Takei’s post
“I’ve learned I’m going to keep my politics to myself,” Johnson said. “Politics is omnipresent and it’s forever. I don’t like it…. I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bulls— that comes with it.”
