FCCS(SW/AW) RJW:
to be honest, I still like Mel, talented movie making crackpot he is, though I won’t buy his movies. Ditto with Sean Penn, I don’t really expect much from artists beyond their work and they are both good at their trade. I look at movie people like plumbers, if they do a good job, fine, but I could care less about their lifestyles, spouses, houses or causes. Ms. Toto brought up the “Passion” as one movie that improved the US’s image abroad, yet I disagree and ask, outside of her personal feelings and bias, what evidence she uses to buttress that claim.
As far as anti-Semitism goes, it exists in all sorts of places and times, sort of like malaria, which existed(s) even in the Ohio Valley. I’ve called many leftists out, saying anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism since you specifically deny Jews, of all people, the right to just one little country, then judge Israel by standards you don’t apply to her neighbors/adversaries. After all, aren’t other harrassed groups allowed their little space where they can build a society free from the malignant tensions of their sworn enemies. Forget the black left which is mostly built around Muslim bullies and total crackpots with 0 gratitude. Probably the one good thing Stalin ever did after WW ll was the mass transfers of populations, mainly Poles, ethnic Germans, into more homogenuous territories, while multi ethnic Jugoslavia exploded like a landmine once the central tyrant disappeared.
