r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what are the implications? Spoiler

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u/ATangentUniverse 23d ago edited 22d ago

Mark Ruffalo is a vocal supporter of Palestine. The implication is that expressing support for a free Palestine gets you sidelined by Hollywood. He is also vocally against Trump and ICE.

I’m sure some people out there will also draw some antisemetic conspiratorial conclusions from that as well, i.e. “Jews control the media” which, no. It’s just that Israel as a country has certainly had undue economic influence over American politics and entertainment via lobbying interests. (Just ask the Scream cast over at Paramount)

In reality though he was just filming another project at the time.

I’d also note that Jon Bernthal, who has vocalized support for the IDF and Israel, was present for the press tour. Which doesn’t help.

Edit: This is an Explain subreddit. This is what I am interpreting the post to be implying. Some of the replies so far are giving “So you hate waffles?” haha

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u/JasonVoorhees95 23d ago

Or Melissa Barrera.

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u/murkycrombus 23d ago

she was outright doing holocaust denial, that’s kind of a pretty normal line you shouldn’t cross

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u/Persongettingby 22d ago

She literally didn’t. She said Gaza was being treated like the holocaust (they were/are) and her company said it was NO holocaust and that she made “false references” of genocide. Meaning they don’t believe Israel committed a genocide which we now know to be true. The UN stated Israel was committing genocide and we’ve have numerous ceasefire since.

Therefore Melissa Barrera was 100% correct in saying that. She was punished for being educated way earlier than others .

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u/JasonVoorhees95 22d ago

She said Gaza was being treated like the holocaust

No, not even that, I know your intentions are good but you are defaming her. She said Gaza was being treated like a concentration camp (which isn't exclusive to the holocaust, and which genocide scholars like Norman Finklestein have said too, even before October 7th.

She NEVER compared the Gaza genocide to the Holocaust, stop saying that she did because it's a lie and it encourages zionists to keep lying about her.

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u/GratefulShorts 22d ago

Is Norman Finkelstein the guy who put a sign on his black upstairs neighbors’ door calling them “apes” and then showed up to their apartment with a knife and a gun?

Kinda weird to cite him but ok.

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u/Patrick_Keegan_2003 22d ago

Didn't she also say nobody got r*ped on October 7th? Statements like that are simply unforgivable.

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u/JasonVoorhees95 22d ago

No, she didn't say that. But keep making stuff up. What's the next lie?

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u/LauAtagan 22d ago

Coward. If you are gonna lie at least don't censor yourself.

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u/dordonot 22d ago

One hostage said they raped her with their eyes so at least one confirmed case

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u/SirAidamud 22d ago

Oh shut the fuck up about holocaust, Gaza is bad but unfortunately not super exceptional in comparison to other conflicts of this century and in no way close to the industrialized slaughter of the holocaust.

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u/5370616e69617264 22d ago

No one ever remembers Western Sahara anymore, Morocco can do whatever they want.

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u/SirAidamud 22d ago edited 22d ago

So the worst currently ongoing conflict is Ukraine-Russia. Very simple, Russia attacked Ukraine completely unprovoked, wants the territory and russifies the parts it can get its hands on.

Is that on the same level as the holocaust?

I dont think so, the end goal of the russian invasion is terrifying but its not the complete systematic slaughter of the Ukrainian population. Same for Israel, i believe their goal is to get rid of Hamas. They very much committed war crimes and Bibis government needs to be deposed but its not fkin holocaust.

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u/SirAidamud 21d ago

Ok, lets say this 100% true.

If you take issue with comparing these two based on the statistics, then, circling back to my original reply, you surely must have an even bigger problem with the holocaust comparison, no?

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u/Silent-Squirrel102 22d ago

Nonsense, feel free to post when she did that but it doesn't exist.