Adam Baldwin

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—Adam Baldwin[1]

Adam Baldwin is an American actor and blogger, perhaps best known for playing Jayne Cobb, the meat-headed hired muscle on Joss Whedon's cult hit Firefly. No relation to Alec Baldwin.

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[edit] Acting career

Baldwin's breakthrough role was in the 1980 film My Bodyguard. In 1987, he appeared in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, in the role of "Animal Mother." He starred on a number of science fiction TV shows in the early 2000s, including The X-Files (2001–02), Firefly (2002–03), Stargate SG-1 (2004), and Angel (2004). He returned to his Firefly role in Serenity, a feature film based on that TV series which was released in 2005. More recently, he played John Casey on the NBC spy comedy Chuck for its entire run (2007–12), and had a highly promoted guest spot in a 2010 episode of Castle, whose title character is played by his Firefly/Serenity castmate Nathan Fillion.

Despite his surname and profession, Adam is not related to Alec et al.

[edit] Political views

Baldwin tweeted that he has been registered with the Democratic Party since age 18.[2] In an interview, he described himself as a "small government, conservative libertarian."[3] He has contributed blog posts semi-regularly to Andrew Breitbart's site Big Hollywood (now merged into Breitbart) since 2009.[4]

[edit] Climate change

Baldwin is a climate change "skeptic." In 2010, he published a piece condemning "the apocalyptic religion of environmentalism; a self-loathing, anti-capitalist, anti-Western-civilization political haven for deracinated communists, anarchists and their useful idiots after the fall of the Bolshevik utopia."[5] Granted, the piece was prompted by a gory ad for the climate change action campaign 10:10, which was the subject of widespread controversy.[6] But the overall pompous and cranky tone of Baldwin's piece did little to help his case on the offensiveness of the ad.

[edit] Gamergate

In August 2014, Baldwin tweeted a link to a YouTube video dealing with the so-called "Quinnspiracy," including the hashtag "#GamerGate."[7] This gave a name to the then-emerging campaign of targeted harassment against prominent women in the video game community.

In an interview with Every Joe, Baldwin explained that while he had "no intention of creating a hashtag movement or anything like that," the "mantle" had been taken up by people who "have been experiencing social justice warfare, and they’re sick of it, and they’re speaking up."[8] He identified with the Gamergaters' portrayal of their campaign as a call for "ethics" in game journalism, stating, "any sunlight shed on journalistic ethics is positive."[8]

Baldwin continued to tweet about Gamergate as the situation intensified.[9] After Brianna Wu, a game developer, revealed that threats against her and her family had prompted her to go into hiding on October 10, Baldwin tweeted that there were "deceptions" in her account, linking to a YouTube video by "Sargon of Akkad."[10] On October 15, comedian Seth Rogen tweeted Baldwin, urging him to "please stop supporting this stupid cause."[11] Baldwin replied that "#Gamergate supports itself and has good arguments on its own," linking to a pro-Gamergate piece in Reason magazine.[11]

[edit] Anti-vaccination

Joss Whedon remarked in an April 2015 interview that Baldwin "sweetly begged" Whedon to not vaccinate his children and even gave him several books on the subject.[12]

[edit] Footnotes

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