Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Huh, weird, not sure where you read that, maybe you meant to reply to someone else?

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s more a case of yet again calling everything and everyone anti semitic

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• AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What specifically did he say that was rationalizing anti-semitism?

  Is it your belief that all anti-Zionism is anti-semitism?

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not the guy you replied to, but:

    In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity,” he said. “I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

    That’s… pretty fucking anti-semitic ngl. He’s basically victim-blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust. Also “picking on them” is quite a eufemism for “industrially genociding”.

    That’s got nothing to do with zionism or being anti-Israel.

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    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep that’s pretty fucking horrific.

      I think that’s case closed.

      If we’re done here can you turn off the lights on your way out?

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