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

• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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