Mel Gibson's fortune as of late just went from bad to worse: Rob Schneider announces his refusal to ever work with Gibson. I'm sure Mel is seriously broken up over that one.
Is it just me, or do all these people demanding that Gibson be boycotted forever simply reinforce a lot of those bad stereotypes? What a fascist thing to do; we don't like him, so fuck him, his career is over.
Though he obviously doesn't think highly of Jews, he apologize and offered to work with Jewish leaders to promote understanding (whatever that means, it sounds nice). Encouraging tolerance should be about educating people and changing their minds, not bullying them into keeping their thoughts to themselves. Need I even mention how notoriously anti-Christian the mainstream film industry has been over the past 20 years?
On top of this, does anybody actually care that he was going more than 40 miles over the speed limit, loaded on tequilla? What do his wife and seven children think of dad's less than enviable behavior?
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You knew I would comment on this one, didn't you?
Those who are particularly sick of pro-christian media were just waiting for an excuse to go after him. I dont know that attacking Gibson intensifies stereotypes of secular people, though it does to Christians. I do know that it will only intensify the "war" between secular/minority-religion and mainstream christianity that appears to have been going on, apparently for the past 20 years as you noted.
Of course, I can understand why that Jewish group wants slam Mel Gibson like that. It's not only that they don't like his anti-semitism. It's that he made an incredibly popular movie in which the Jews were the bad guys. It's bad enough mainstram-christan media undermines moral concepts of tolerance. It doesn't help to have popular movies coming out to further preach intolerance. "Passion of the Christ" was relatively not-preachy, but the fact that it was so popular was really an insulting slap in the face to those secular people, at least thats what I thought.
But really, that movie was only popular in the already psychotic super-christian groups, and I don't think it did much to "convert" people into psycho super-christians. It's just sad that there are enough intolerant super-christians around to make that movie as massively profitable as it was. It kind of hilights a major moral problem with American's in that so many Americans can't accept people who are of a different religion. People were buying multiple copies of DVDs so they could copies to their secular friends, as though the movie were a historical documentary. Even "mildly Christian" people become targets of discrimination. As if your a bad person unless you spend every waking moment of your life singing praise to jesus.
But I must agree with you, James. Jewish groups attacking drunken directors doesn't help promote
tolerance at all.
Whatever. I'm glad I don't really have to deal with that anymore.
PS, the other day some American guy started talking to me and encouraged me to begin a personal relationship with jesus. I can't escape it entirely. Maybe if I just lied told people I was a Christian I wouldn't get into such discussions anymore.
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