That's why Mel Gibson has nothing to worry about from the CANCEL mob on Twitter.
The hysteria over Jimmy Kimmel has continued (like Covid continues). THEY are dragging out things he did on the intentionally offensive "Man Show," and things he did back when being an "edgy" comedian was cool and in the Lenny Bruce and George Carlin tradition.
I stopped watching the guy because he kept having KANYE on the show, and pandering to other idiots with nothing to say, giving out with that creepy smile of his. Now, despite having KANYE on the show and so many other rappers and crappers and athletes known for the price of their sneakers..."HE A RACIST. R.I.P. CANCEL!"
Right, R.I.P. -- a subtle wish that a comedian be KILLED.
Meanwhile, the notorious anti-Semite MEL GIBSON?
On Twitter it's "Jesus, that happened long ago. Why bring that up?"
I once wrote to Mel Gibson.
I said, "How can you make anti-Semitic remarks when your idols were Jewish? You know that The Three Stooges were Jewish. That's not just Moe, Larry and Curly, but Curly's brother Shemp. AND Joe Besser. All those Three Stooges shorts you love...and you'd wish The Boys were wiped out in gas chambers along with all the other Jews?"
Mel didn't read it; it was "RETURNED TO SENDER."
Kimmel, meanwhile, is getting rage for something he did, what, over TWENTY years ago?
All I can say is Yoko, watch yourself. "Imagine" (which you love to promote on Twitter, especially as a spiritual co-write between you and John) might get the big CANCEL. So might ALL of John's work. Any statue of him COULD be taken down. The man did use "Nigger" in the title of a well-intentioned song about persecution and abuse. But I digress...
Unlike Jimmy Kimmel, Mel Gibson was never going for a laugh when he made his remarks. He was intending them to be hurtful, and at best, once in a while he'd blame it on being drunk. In 2006, while growling at "Sugar Tits," the officer trying to deal with his arrogance, he blurted, "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." He also shrugged off his father's even nastier anti-Semitism (the holocaust never happened, etc.) because, well, it's his father, who taught him so well, and you honor your father.
Sort of like Jesus the Jew honored his father? Hmmm, was/is his father Jewish? Never mind...
The #METOO movement that got a CANCEL on Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby (both in jail, so it was actually LEGAL), then began bullying and bitching about anyone, so Jeffrey Tambor ducked for cover, Al Franken resigned, Dustin Hoffman went silent, and even Bill Maher chose not to wisecrack about the time he told ubiquitous complainer Rose McGowan that he had a big penis. (No, it wasn't a "Show and Tell" just a tell, but a decade or so later, Rose decided she needed a little more publicity so she dredged it up. And after a day of Twitter Twits going to seed over it, it drooped.)
It's always a difficult thing, balancing "Freedom of Speech" against the right to insult a minority. If the minority is Jewish. No doubt Mel Gibson will continue to get work, especially if he chooses to direct some movie about Jesus...and leaves out anything that suggests Jesus was Jewish.
As for Kimmel, so far he's still silently "on vacation," and is probably smart enough to know, as Bill Maher knew, that sometimes even the wittiest wisecracker of comic truths has to just ignore dumbfucks and dummkopfs who won't get it.
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