It’s really not so much about defending a film which no one was seen but about standing up to a brutal communist dictator threatening violence over a movie that lampoons him. But come clean, Jamilah. Your concern isn’t about Americans being put at risk.
They say when the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts to look like a nail. Likewise, when the only thing you care about is race, everything becomes about race. Sony Pictures’ “The Interview” is just another example of “white privilege.”
What better example of American arrogance and White privilege than a comedy about killing a LIVING head of state?
— jamilah (read bio before DMing) (@JamilahLemieux) December 17, 2014
First of all, a movie about killing a DEAD head of state wouldn’t make a great deal of sense. Second making this about race is utterly ludicrous. All accounts indicate a movie lampooning international espionage along the lines of Cold War comedies like “Spies Like Us.”
Apparently a lot of tweeters are trapped in the racism bubble with Jamilah.
https://twitter.com/KimberlyNFoster/status/545332292336746496
@KimberlyNFoster INSANE. I would never, EVER want to see a movie like that.
— jamilah (read bio before DMing) (@JamilahLemieux) December 17, 2014
@JamilahLemieux "but whaaaaat….it's FUNNY."- said nobody living who was the target of such a "joke," ever.
— Jaeda Laurez (@DarthJaeda) December 17, 2014
Oh no, the murderous dictator of one of the most repressive countries on the planet might feel bad because of a joke made at his expense.
@JamilahLemieux Like the AUDACITY to even think something like that is acceptable or funny. It's astounding
— brian ✨ (@busyxb) December 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/KaraRBrown/status/545334417950928896
@KaraRBrown @BrFleurantin Right? Deplorable.
— jamilah (read bio before DMing) (@JamilahLemieux) December 17, 2014
@BrFleurantin @JamilahLemieux Why isn't it?
— git-pusha-t ?? (@_Taurean) December 17, 2014
@_Taurean @BrFleurantin @JamilahLemieux smh….how mayo of you
— Brandon (@MrRodgers_Hood) December 17, 2014
So it’s deplorable to make a farcical movie about assassinating an evil man but it’s ok to use a racial epithet about the guy who doesn’t understand what’s so deplorable about it. Got it.
@JamilahLemieux @charlescwcooke You must have been really pissed about that GWB assassination film, right?
— We are screwed (@PornPops69) December 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/PleazeStop/status/545344450927407104
So George W. Bush is worse than Kim Jung Un. Got it.
https://twitter.com/EthanLRivera/status/545335168236810240
https://twitter.com/PleazeStop/status/545344204176506881
@PleazeStop @EthanLRivera @JamilahLemieux Whereas Kim Jong Un is a righteous dude? Please. At least pretend to care about reality.
— Kate (@kateinva) December 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/PleazeStop/status/545358325487923200
Ummm. Then why is a Bush assassination movie a good thing and a Kim Jong Un assassination movie a bad thing?
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