Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic”
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/719041
Seeing that list of stars, I didn't even need to open the article to see if Paramount was just conflating anti-genocide with anti-semitic.
They are, in case it wasn't immediately clear.
They are, in case it wasn’t immediately clear.
Basically, my eyeballs just slide off the word "antisemitism" like it's fucking mental Teflon at this point.
Good fucking job Israel, we spent nearly a century committing our entire civilization to stamping out ideas like antisemitism and bigotry against ethnic groups, and you just dragged us back to the start.
Yup. You'd think that a people for whom the words "never again" carry special significance would understand the irony of carrying out genocide.
Well, I just canceled my paramount+
Same.
We're quickly spiraling into a Star Trek evil timeline origin.
After what they did to Halo, I canceled mine ages ago.
How do i boycott that from which i don't currently partake.
Pirate their stuff and leave bad reviews?
By spreading the word about the boycott.
I’ll never understand one more people aren’t on the high seas. It’s the best.
We need some people paying for it so the stuff we like keeps getting made.
It is morally correct to pirate Paramount content then complain about how shit it is anyway.
Sounds like we need a Paramount boycott
I want to, but I was already avoiding them!
I switch around a lot and was considering getting it for a month but then the Colbert thing happened and now this? Never again.
I'll start by continuing to not watch nor consume Paramount shit in any way.
And Mel Gibson is not on the list. That fact alone shows that this list has nothing to do with antisemitism.
Zionists owning Hollywood turns out to be reality.
Israel has set back the push against actual bigotry and antisemitism by a century by literally leaning into every right-wing conspiracist talking point and wild notion about jewish conspiracies.
They've squandered any good will a sane person could have for Israel.
The monstrous acts against Palestine haven't changed the way I view Jewish people as a whole, because I can separate religious beliefs from the actions of a nation state, but so,so many fucking idiots won't.
Israel can go fuck itself, but I really feel for all the sane Jewish people outside (and inside, though I don't think they're super numerous) Israel that are going to be targeted by actual fucking antisemitism by nut jobs.
I sometimes wonder if this was intentional - fanning ridiculous theories such as "space lasers" - in order to make it easier to discredit other/future criticism. The Republicans have been using similar tactics for awhile now,.
Man, I sure didn’t expect to see “Mel Gibson Was Right All Along” on my 2025 Bingo card, yet here we are.
Boycott, divest, sanction. Paramount about to get the Disney treatment.
Soon to be rebranded as Paramaga, to cater to "the middle"
"Coming soon to Paramount+, a unique look at Hitler: A tyrant? Yes, but also an artist and dog lover, let us explore the middle side of history this fall!"
The Paramaga
Oh, lol/fuck, imagine if that is the name that will stick to the ICE&co. troops in the future (a bit like "Nazi" has later become to be the default term, wiki/Nazism#Etymology).
It's better than 'sockfaces' (like Brownshirts ... or black/blue/gold/silver/red/green/greyshirts) tho they sure do love their sock-faced anonymity in their "public service".
And by "antisemitic", they are still going by the hilariously outdated notion that maybe last held sway in the 90s, and that means "not sufficiently subservient to just whatever the fuck Israel wants to do"?
MAGA and Jewish space lasers on the same side. I guess they are that stupid.
Oh man. Star Trek is the only tv show I watch. I guess it is time to sail the high seas.
Admirable tbh. Unfortunately Severance and The Bear still have me in their clutches haha
I thought The Bear was Disney and Severance was Apple... At least that's how they are in the UK.
The seas can solve that problem in 15 minutes and then you have them forever.
No wonder South Park is trying to speedrun their contract with Paramount
I would think they'd love being there as a giant fuck you to them.
What happened for those not in the know?
What are the odds that Mel Gibson isn't on that list
It's in the article. He's not on it.
Blacklists are the hallmarks of fascism.
Is that a bad thing? As in, there are some good actors on that list which won't be making MAGA-friendly films at Paramount.
Oh that would be tough if you were an actor who thinks children deserve to live.
Didn’t these people just say that genocide is bad? So antigenocide is antisemitic, therefore genocide is Semitic. Or is all of this semantics?
Good thing I’d rather blacklist paramount!
Here is the twist, they don't have the actually anti-semitist people there because definition of this word completely warped thanks to Netanyahu and zionist lobbies. Bask in the glory of your stupidity.
It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, since Hollywood loves to blacklist folks in general for opinions outside work. But to outright claim X, Y or Z won’t be working at Paramount seems a bit of a stretch.
There’s a lot of wiggle room in that article. It’s reporting on ‘sources told Variety’ that Paramount is making a list, but that they’re not sure who’s on it. But that they assume these people would be.
It’s all silly anyway. Even folks like Kevin Spacey eventually get back to working in Hollywood. Hollywood principles only go so far once the media attention dies down.
*People critical of the attrocicities being committed by the genocidal Israeli government under netanyahu
I'm sure there's numerous Jewish actors on their list.
Sounds like a good list to be on.
Why are they trying to control media?
To try to control opinions
I wonder what they think of all the UFC fighters about to be under their umbrella. Particularly guys like Bryce Mitchel, an ACTUAL antisemitic person.
That’s fine. Movies mostly blow now anyway.
I could swear Ellison bought it to tank it
So, they have a list of people who are too much asshole to work with?
seems reasonable.
says the channel that literally had a Jewish coded Spock GOBBLE FUCKING BACON
Jews can eat pig. They are not allowed to mix dairy and meat tho. Muslims aren't supposed to eat pig.
RIP any future Star Trek property.
"OMG, when did Star Trek get so political?!"
Um... 1966.
So hilarious and so apt... I will absolutely laugh at the idea of, well what's effectively been a socialist utopia for the vast majority of contexts in it, and the show that broke the interracial kiss barrier. (on top of inter species/galaxy ones... but obviously far more shocking at the time that a white guy kissed a black woman, than a white guy sleeping with a bunch of green aliens.
Political in the non-conservative sense, mind you.
Good luck with South Park and painting Matt Stone as Anti-Semitic. Fucking pieces of shit.
Zionists call Jewish people antisemitic all the time, so yeah they will have great luck with that.
I'm willing to bet that a significant portion of that list is Jewish.
America-centric?
Mother fucker it’s already America-centric, just look at the space Christian angels episodes of discovery to see how American it is.
Oh well, more Americans shooting themselves in the foot for foreign media to step in and replace them. Guess this is the century of China if America is giving up.
Wasn't that supposed to be her mom?
I reckon we could get 4 seasons into a Terran Empire based series before the MAGAs figure out they're being made fun of.
You could get away with a Starship Troopers Star Trek Terran Empire series literally forever, The Colbert Report ran 11 seasons and people still think it existed to balance out the liberal bias of The Daily Show.
Star Trek: Ferenginar will probably be on the list to be made and the pilot episode will be called Make Fereginar Great Again.
MAGA would see the Ferengi aversion to war, xenophobia, and genocide as "too woke".
Followed by Star Trek: Lobes
My first thought when reading that as well.
I'm sure they will find new ways to try to reboot it, completely stripped of any social commentary or social thought experiments, devoid of all optimism and inspiration for what our species can become. Probably like, another retelling of a plucky crew getting into space battles with generic, non-stereotyped-but-kinda alien terrorists who don't have relatable reasons for being bad guys.
It won't have heady concepts and wild ideas about how civilizations can develop and what humans can become, but that's okay because it will have a roguish captain who likes to break the rules and a strict, by-the-book 1st officer that he has sexual tension with.
So it will be a cop show
I remember having multiple discussions with a guy I knew who was adamant about various works of fiction, including the original Star Trek TV series, and how, in his view, if they have any kind of subtext to them, that it was not intentional and it's entirely in the eye of the beholder, meaning, that people just make it up as they go.
These included, but were not limited to: OG Star Trek, Dune (book), LoTR (books), and even the NARNIA series. I mean, Narnia. I think I first read them around the age of 10 or 11, and the Christian parallels practically hit you between the eyes it is so obvious. Even to a kid...I mean, I'm pretty sure Lewis has gone on record with the clear intent on proselytizing his faith via that series.
I wish I was joking, and this guy read most everything when it came to old sci-fi stuff. If that is his take on reading all those classic sci-fi stuff, I was just gobsmacked as to what he was getting out of it.
I have the feeling that there might be more people like him, but I just don't get it. Even things like WWE have the basic outline of the hero's journey to them, FFS.
There's already an Angel Studios. We don't need another one.
Eh, it's not like the current ones were all that good anyway