A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.