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So, if I understand correctly, if Mel Gibson were liberal and made anti-Semitic comments everything would be copasetic and no one would care? Because...I'm not inclined to believe that's the case.
I'm pretty sure when you're a celebrity and you say the kind of stuff he said, you're going to get negative publicity for it. I don't think his politics (liberal vs. conservative) make very much difference. POTC put him under the spotlight on the Jew issue (I had no interest in watching it so I can neither confirm nor deny that that movie is in any way anti-Semitic). And once you've put that kind of attention on yourself, if you follow it up by getting roaring drunk and spewing epithets at police officers that are related to the same negative attention, your reputation is going to suffer.
How the US feels about Israel and Jews and how the media portrays those issues aside, celebrities who make blatantly racist remarks are going to feel some heat, no matter who they are. That Gibson happened to already be in the hot seat about Jews only exacerbates how much attention people are going to pay, but I doubt there'd be much difference if the arresting office were black and he blamed poverty on a bunch of n******.
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