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Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”

A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”

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[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Fascists have no creativity or imagination whatsoever

[-] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This timeline is so fucking dumb, the Ellison's are evil people and what makes them evil has nothing to do with their ethnicity or religion and everything to do with them being rich oligarchs who are actively tearing the fabric of society apart.

This doesn’t deserve a response in kind

om... then why did you... respond?

[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe.

73,001 deaths, 173,200 injuries, and the destruction of Palestinian society and infrastructure aren't 'very real suffering'?

Another disgusting false application of 'antisemitism' to disguise Israeli war crimes. It's like if the Nazis responded to criticism of the Holocaust by calling its critics 'anti-German'.

[-] 2hundredpancakes 32 points 1 day ago

It's like if the Nazis responded to criticism of the Holocaust by calling its critics 'anti-German'.

They did exactly that! Just like the US always frames its bombing of children overseas as "defending our nation/democracy". There's a reason they all use the same playbook.

As someone raised in a Jewish family whose family tree is half-gone because of the Holocaust, it's a special kind of depressing to see the lesson these people took away from the Sho'ah was simply a blueprint for oppression.

[-] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Russia kept calling criticism of Russian invasion of Crimea as Russophobia...seriously

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 22 hours ago

Because it is.

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I can't fathom the mind of anyone who survived that horror turning around and perpetrating it in kind on their own neighbors. No one, not a single human being, deserves that. I'm sorry that happened to your family. And I'm sorry that these sociopaths are exploiting that same tragedy for their own gain. Genuinely and truly, you have all my sympathy. I can't imagine what that must be like.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

Like US admin claiming BDS, communism, antifa are anti-American.

[-] 2hundredpancakes 5 points 1 day ago

Exactly.

If we understand the US government as a capitalist-imperialist (and currently fascist) entity, we see the items you listed are antithetical to it.

If we understand the actual people of this country to comprise "America", we see those items are in fact pro-American. They're all predicated on helping the community.

The trick comes when the govt positions their power structure and nationalist narrative as being the only legitimate representation of what the country "should be". Now these items are suddenly "anti-American" when the reality is that they have the best interests of the country's citizens in mind; whereas the administration's interest lies in perpetuating the power structure above all else, at the citizens' expense.

"There's no war but class war."

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

I think the United States has always been fascist, in retrospect, despite the word not having yet been coined upon founding. The fasces, or some variation thereof, appears in numerous official symbols, printed and otherwise displayed in so many places, from currency to buildings. I think capitalism always held the goal of its own imperialist (now fascist) objectives. The founders weren't against taxes, or poverty, or brutal exploitation, and crushing poverty of people, they were just against it for themselves.

But they had to cap like ~~modos~~ mofos to get the unwashed, rag-clad, barefoot masses to fight their revolution. I'm recalling what's known of how Washington described his troops, and how Castro and Guevara didn't.

[-] 2hundredpancakes 3 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I try to hedge my words, to make these ideas more palatable for anyone reading who hasn't yet found themselves on the left side of things... but I completely agree with you.

Capitalism's means always point back to creating more of itself... it is the ideology of the cancer cell.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 22 hours ago

Capitalism's means always point back to creating more of itself... it is the ideology of the cancer cell.

You said it.

[-] eurodyne@piefed.world 33 points 1 day ago
[-] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago

we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.

Great! Then stop helping Israel commit genocide.

Can you say, "free Palestine"?

[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

Pathetic attempt to turn it around, typical tone-deaf aggressive asshole response.

[-] mHtt@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anything but talk about the current genocide being perpetrated by the Israel...

[-] m3t00@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

as long as their money holds out, they will pretend whatever they can get away with.

[-] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

That is such a nonsensical response from paramount that someone needs to get fired.

There is greedy and unethical, and then there is being incompetent to the point that you make the company seem even more evil and stupid than they already appeared to be.

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Ahh, yes, who would dare claim that PARAMOUNT tolerates prejudice?

It's not like the best friend of their owners is literally one of history's MOST prejudiced individuals or anything.

Being lectured about prejudice by Paramount is like being lectured about cannibalism by Dahmer.

[-] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago

I have a list of actors who speak up, he's going on it. I'll support anything they do.

[-] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

… and suddenly Oracle, paramount, the Ellisons and Catz find themselves on the wrong side of history.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Suddenly? This ain't sudden.

[-] dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Suddenly?

They've been on the wrong side of history for a loooooooong time

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