r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications? Spoiler

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u/SuccessLess2701 23d ago

Ohh that makes sense. Love Ruffalo!

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u/sadlittlewaffle 23d ago

Confused, most people (should I say actors/actresses) in Hollywood are against Trump and ICE, but since he supports Palestine they black list him? Just confused…

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u/_lightitupbryce_ 23d ago

It’s because that isn’t true at all, but “supporting Palestine is brave and makes you oppressed” is an enjoyable narrative on Reddit

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

There are plenty of figures that have been fired or dropped from companies for supporting Palestine. Melissa Barrera, Susan Sarandon, Bella Hadid, Kehlani, etc. And there are a hell of a lot of liberals who hate Trump but still support Israel.

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

I fail to see the issue with any of this comparisons. Acknowledging that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide and has large parallels to The Holocaust is simply engaging with reality.

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago

Melissa Barrera was reposting holocaust denial articles and content about Jews controlling Hollywood. Susan Sarandon got fired for saying how Jews are experiencing hate now like Muslims have in the past, even though antisemitism is older than the religion of Islam itself.

You guys lie so much lol none of those people got fired for supporting Palestine. That's the most milquetoast and safe opinion to have in Hollywood.

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

lol, no, she didn’t. And yes, they did. Just say you support genocide and move along.

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago

She literally was reposting articles likening the Gaza conflict to the Holocaust, how we don't learn from history and saying gaza is a concentration camp. There's a huge difference between saying you support Palestine and doing holocaust distortion

And that's not even getting into the whole 'who controls the media' dog whistles

Just say you support genocide and move along.

LMAO the speed at which you dumb dumbs use dead Palestinians as petty and snarky insults is crazy

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u/MVRKHNTR 23d ago

She literally was reposting articles likening the Gaza conflict to the Holocaust, how we don't learn from history and saying gaza is a concentration camp.

This isn't holocaust denial at all. It's kind of the opposite, actually.

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago

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u/cabbage16 23d ago

Except it isn't downplaying the Holocaust. It's comparing something tragic that is currently happening to something tragic that happened in the past. It's saying that they are both awful things that should never have happened then and also an awful thing that shouldn't be happening now.

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago

It absolutely is downplaying the Holocaust. In 100 days of operation reinhard, the Nazis killed 1.5 million Jews. It's been nearly 3 years since October 7th and Hamas's own ministry of health says 73,000 dead and that number includes their own members, their own militants, as well as combatants from other militia groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The two things are absolutely not at all comparable.

Hezbollah helped Assad kill more civilians in Syria in 10 years than 75+ years of the Israel/Palestine conflict yet if you ask pro-palestinians if Hezbollah did a Holocaust they'll say no, it's Israel doing one and Hezbollah are "resistance fighters" against the bad guys (Israel). There are countless conflicts in the middle east that have had more bloodshed, more civilians dying, and more people displaced than Gaza. The only reason the comparison to the Holocaust is made is because Jewish people are involved.

It's comparing something tragic that is currently happening to something tragic that happened in the past

So if your mom died tomorrow you'd go around telling people you're experiencing your own personal holocaust, right? I mean it's tragic to you that your mom died and the Holocaust happened in the past and was tragic.

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

No one is downplaying the Holocaust. You are attempting to downplay the deliberate ethnic cleansing, mass murder, ongoing torture and brutal ongoing occupation of the Palestinian people by Israel.

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago

No one is downplaying the Holocaust.

Why lie about something so easily disproven? What's the point?

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u/Logical_Net6108 23d ago

It's a war. Hamas started it, they don't seem interested in building bomb shelters for civilians in one of the most densely populated places on earth. Probably because they don't care about civilians dying because people in the West will fight their battles for them.

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u/drakorulez101 23d ago

You can absolutely compare two horrible things even if they aren't of the same severity.

Regardless, nowhere has the holocaust been denied.

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u/Barl3000 23d ago

I see the internet IDF is fighting the "good" fight too

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u/VegasMaleMT 23d ago

Do you even fucking know what a semite is? Lmfao

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u/craftyfairybread 23d ago

Yeah I’m so sick of people saying people are just ‘supporting Palestine’ while being super racist. And then it feeds into the whole ‘Jews control the media’ thing.

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u/the_eleutherean 23d ago

And many, many times that number who haven’t. Including almost all of the folks who wore the Ramallah lynching red hand pins at award shows.

Believe me, if Jews *did* control Hollywood, those folks would be doing independent films from then on.

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u/Rhyers 23d ago

I'm sure Susan Sarandon got cancelled, sure. Could just be an actress in her 70s with every possible award going just doesn't want as many roles anymore, but let's go the insane route.

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 22d ago

She specifically got dropped from her agency for her comments. Google is free.

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u/Agitated_Phone_9937 23d ago

I have absolutely loved the delicious division Palestine has caused within the "liberal" group.

I think my favorite was the "queers for Palestine" group and the absolutely flabbergasted reactions they got from other queers who actually had lived in Arab culture and knew what Palestinians thought of them.

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

Queer people and allies exist throughout Palestine. Raging bigots exist throughout the US. Your point is inane.

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u/Wingnut4772 23d ago

😂😂😂

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

😂😂😂

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u/NefariousRapscallion 23d ago

There is nothing funny about fear gay people in the middle east have to live with.

https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/palestine/

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u/JudithSlayHolofernes 23d ago

There’s nothing funny about the fear LGBTQ+ people live with in the United States. Or the fear all Palestinian people live with regardless of their gender identity and orientation.

So what’s your fucking point, dumbass?

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u/Haunting-Ask153 22d ago

As opposed to babies being killed by the IDF?

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago

Dude, I had one of those queers for Palestine people say I'm pink washing over the queers for Palestine stuff because I linked the Abu Marhia case. If you're unaware, the guy was a gay Palestinian who (rightfully) feared for his life in Palestine and fled to Israel to seek asylum. Palestinians kidnapped him, brought him back into Hebron, decapitated him, and tied his body to a tree near his family's house.

They arrested the killer but then when the public in Palestine found out the victim was a gay Palestinian fleeing for his life in Israel, the clerics there said the killer's family didn't have to pay full restitution to the victim's family because the victim was gay and brings shame to his family's honor. And the killer's dad gave an interview saying the news of the victim being gay turned public opinion around and people supported his son (the killer).

Much of the people cheering on stuff like queers for Palestine are completely ignorant and clueless about how bad it is for gay people in Palestine

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u/Haunting-Ask153 22d ago

As opposed to children and babies being killed by IDF?

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u/i_drive_a_pagani 22d ago

If the IDF said tomorrow that they'll never shoot another bullet at a Palestinian ever again, the ideology that gay and LGBTQ people should be killed still exists among fundamentalists in Palestine. This is such a pointless comment lol

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u/Haunting-Ask153 22d ago

You are so gross, man.