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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
Free speech means you have the right to say something. It does not mean you have the right to say something free of any and all consequences. He'd already fought off questions about being anti-Semitic before; now he's just confirmed that they were true. Being an anti-Semite, unfortunately for Gibson, has consequences-like ABC won't want you to produce a miniseries about the Holocaust, for example. People who think biggotry is stupid and wrong won't want to work for him or with him, despite his star power.
This isn't about "He's free to say whatever he wants." Of course he is. That doesn't mean the rest of the world either has to like it or has to ignore it. It is not illegal for him to hate Jews. He cannot and should not be jailed for it. However, he has no Constitutional protection against people deciding that being one makes him a stupid asshat and not be interested in seeing his movies or being in them or associating with him. People are not entitled to the rest of the world conforming to their ideas or accepting them simply because they have them.
As tophat said, in vino veritas. I have no interest in supporting someone who thinks that Jews killed his lord and savior and ruined the world, and neither the Constitution nor anything else guaranatee him the ability to be like that without other people choosing not to have anything to do with him.
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There's a huge difference between supporting the person and punishing the person.
If you do not like what the man says you do not buy his product. The studio heads decide that they don't want him to be in their movies, have his distributed by their studio and so on.
But to have people say he needs to be bitchslapped and by whom(?) that's just wrong.
If you personally have issues with what he said turn away and look elsewhere and for people you can believe in what they say.
To me, Mel Gibson is a decent actor, one of the best these days, he adds humor and has a style of acting I like. His personal life is none of my business, his beliefs are none of my business and what he says and does outside of that entertainment realm is none of my business.
If he comes down my street and preaches hatred or if his movies are filled with hatred then I will lose interest and decide I won't buy his product. If he restarts a NAZI party and declares all jews must die..... then he needs help, deep psychological help.
As for The Passion of The Christ, it was a very good movie, very realistic as to how the Bible itself wrote it. It was also damn entertaining and well acted. I didn't find it anti-semitic in anyway. What, was Mel Gibson supposed to change the Bible and history and make the Jews love and want to save Christ?
For Christians, Christ died to save us all...... therefore he had to die and had to suffer because it was his sacrifice to do so. That is all I got out of what the movie and Gibson said. I saw nothing damning the jews.
If people worried more about the log in their own eye and not the splinter in anothers, when it comes to what 1 man says the world may just be a better place.