This is gonna be so fucking obnoxious.
It is worth noting that other people in the movie, including Ortega, have been very vocally pro Palestinian.
The difference is that Barrera extended this to some nasty dog whistles (“I will let you deduce that” is a common “Jews run the world” dog whistle, especially after she was rightfully blunt about the imperialism and genocide).
Of course, the production company fucked up massively in their press statement because of course
Like almost every aspect of this, both sides can be in the wrong
the production company fucked up massively in their press statement
They didn’t fuck anything up, they are very clearly anti-Palestinian.
including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing
If you don’t want to call it genocide or ethnic cleansing, no one is making you, but both of those things are not controversial to call this ‘war’, outside of very pro-Israel circles. To prohibit employees from calling it that is taking Israel’s side, not remaining neutral.
Yes.
And if they had focused on the actually antisemitic part, it would… Probably end the same way truth be told
What part was that? I’ve been googling for articles that show actual antisemitic language, but I’m coming up with nothing so far.
This:
“I have been actively looking for videos and information about the Palestinian side for the last 2 weeks or so, following accounts etc. Why? Because Western media only shows the other side. Why they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself.”
Is not a dogwhistle, it’s a very correct insinuation that Western media (who claim to be objective and presenting both sides fairly) are in bed with Israel, politically, and are not trying to report on the conflict objectively. Don’t go and tack-on some “but she must mean that they’re doing it because she thinks Jews rule the world!” bit. Western media (and governments) are doing it because of racism, guilt, and because Israel is a useful pivot point through which to impose influence throughout the Middle East.
The West politically favoring Israel is about as close to fact as you can get. And she said that repeatedly.
But. For some reason, she suddenly wanted to beat around the bush on the same subject and used a common antisemitic dog whistle by accident. What a shame
It’s not a dogwhistle! You’re trying to combine her not calling it out directly in that post with your own assumptions of how it’s meant to be interpreted/ answered in peoples’ heads.
And clearly she was rightfully reticent to call it out directly, because she was fired when she directly called out their genocide and ethnic cleansing!
The studio didn’t even interpret that part as being about that antisemitic trope, they were very clear about why they fired her. You’re in here trying to rewrite the studio’s interpretation to make them seem less bad, by cooking up something “antisemitic” beyond just criticizing Israel.
Again, she had no issues calling it out directly elsewhere. Her coworkers call it out and are fine. And yet…
Could we not cape for the antisemites? Especially because all it does is make it easier for Israelis to continue to conflate a condemnation of Zionism with being antisemitic
Her coworkers call it out and are fine.
Really, where was that? They called it “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing”, and weren’t fired? Got any citation, because that ain’t in this article. That would certainly make the studio hypocrites. It wouldn’t mean anything for her, though, since studios are notoriously biased and treat employees unequally; I would not be at all shocked to hear they fired a woman for something that a bunch of guys also said.
Could we not cape for the antisemites?
Could we not treat being too vague about criticizing Israel as being intended to be antisemitic? That seems much more directly to be aiding the conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism, since, you know, that’s literally what it is doing.
If she’s said something else, that is actually antisemitic, then it becomes a very fair assumption that this was an antisemitic dogwhistle. Please, link to it! Otherwise, you’re just using the worst-possible interpretation of what was said, sans any supporting evidence, to label her a bigot.
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The actor was dropped from the project after a series of social media posts in the wake of the Israel-Hamas War.
A spokesperson for Spyglass, the company behind the Scream franchise, issued a statement after the initial publication of this article: “Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.”
THR has reached out to a rep for Barrera, who has made dozens of posts about the war since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7.
Barrera’s Sam Carpenter was the lead of that film, and the older sister of Jenna Ortega’s Tera.
Barrera also starred in Scream VI, which was released in March and topped $168.9 million at the global box office.
Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that actor Susan Sarandon had been dropped by talent agency UTA following comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on Nov. 17.
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