r/entertainment • u/WhySoSeriously55 • 17h ago
Selma Blair Reveals Extent of Career Fallout After Instagram Comment
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/selma-blair-career-comment-instagram-islam-israel-hamas-1236721161/895
u/KABCatLady 16h ago
Holy shit. I never knew about this comment before. It’s crazy to me that she is whining and complaining about how the comment impacted HER negatively. How it impacted HER son. But no time spent on how that comment impacts the people she hurled it towards. How it impacts THEIR kids. Such fucking privilege!
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u/jl_theprofessor 15h ago
lol I was like “how bad could it be?”
Then I was like whoa
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u/drunkeymunkey 14h ago
Right, why in the hell would she bring this up again???
Oh, she still thinks she is the victim lmao
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u/tbombs23 9h ago
Streisand effect in full.
Most people had no idea, now they do and she has tanked her rep officially
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u/BoogieShoes11 14h ago
My exact experience too. What did she say? To Yikes!
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u/No_University7832 14h ago
I added one word and her statement is no longer controversial “Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. (RADICAL) Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
*She was so close
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u/Bambi_H 13h ago
It's still stupid, because Islam and Muslim are the same thing. They're the same faith. And she was still being islamophobic.
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u/bloodpukesalvation 12h ago
They are not the same thing. Islam is a religion, or belief system, Muslims are the people who follow that belief system.
One is a religion the other is a people.
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u/Bambi_H 12h ago
Well, yes, but in her statement she's conflating them. And the people who follow Islam are Muslims. And the Muslims are people who follow Islam.
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u/InterPunct 4h ago
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
Not good.
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u/Wilsonian81 14h ago
"I made a public bigoted comment, and everyone treated me like a bigot and wanted nothing to do with me...."
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u/ginns32 12h ago
"I still don’t know what any of them were thinking. No one returned my calls."
She thinks she's owed an explanation as to why she was dropped and cut off. She knows why!
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u/penis_showing_game 13h ago
In her comments when looking back on what happened I found this comment interesting:
“And of course, my manager, my supposed friend of 30 years, and a Jew, was gone too.”
Maybe I’m reaching here, but it seems like her mindset is that other Jews at minimum shouldn’t have had issue with what she said.
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u/coldbru85 13h ago
Hence why she didn’t have much sympathy with her medical condition and had to parade around with it to get attention
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u/melpec 13h ago
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
This is the comment she claim didn't warrant her losing all her support.
I say FAFO.
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u/n1c073plz 13h ago
thank you for this. was scrolling forever to find the actual comment
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u/Solomatrix 12h ago
Yo homie, you must be new here. If you click the link at the top there's an article that has all the context then people come here to discuss it. Well nobody actually does that but they used to. Nm, you'll fit in fine here.
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u/analogdirection 11h ago
Which is blocked if you have an ad blocker meaning you have to type in archives and go around to see it. There's a reason people copy articles to the comments. You must be new here.
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u/Solomatrix 11h ago
Your ad blocker blocks whole articles? Might want to look into one that blocks ads.
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u/undercover_s4rdine 12h ago
She can never be let to read a book or article about secular leaders of muslim majority countries that her government “deleted” for the sake of American profit. Nope, Arabs (and other countries of Muslim majority) just love having terrorism. Yep that’s it /s
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u/Blacknite45 12h ago
If she point out it was the regressive interpretation of Islam that makes up a majority of the goverments in the middleeast has done nothing but harm to the citizens it would've been fine but as it stands it just reads like she's targeting all Muslims which is a shitty thing to do
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u/Uncle_Bug_Music 16h ago
So she shits on an entire religion (Islam) and the people who worship (Muslims), but she’s annoyed that Bardem is trying to cancel Oink?
Edit: Pink. The O & P sit adjacent to each other on the keyboard.
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u/ttnezz 15h ago
lol @ oink
She says her apology had no fine print or conditions but she says she conflated Muslims with radical Islamists “mistakenly and inadvertently” come on now. That isn’t really an apology.
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u/AcceptableOwl2425 11h ago
People that think like her never actually apologize. She just wants whatever crappy career she had to come back and people to forget how nasty she is.
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u/SureNeedleworker2363 15h ago
"I'm canceled. I'm so canceled. I'm being silenced. Hear about it at my keynote speech"
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u/joeschmoagogo 16h ago
Not saying anything was an option for her.
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u/Buzzybill 16h ago
She honestly could have not commented at all, instead she chose hate. She should lay right down in the bed she made.
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u/Somnambulist815 15h ago
Sometimes we all need to be reminded that its an option so I guess thank you Blair for showing us what we can avoid
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u/CaughtALiteSneez 17h ago
Today I learned about her comment and it is bad:
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
What sort of career has she had anyway since the ‘00s?
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u/Morgan-Moonscar 17h ago
Not much since she was dealing with MS.
This comment however destroyed any goodwill she got from her health problems.
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u/Haldered 17h ago
Vile hate speech, she was not blacklisted enough, it's disgraceful that she still has a career at all
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u/CaughtALiteSneez 16h ago
I didn’t even know about it, it’s horrendous.
A perfect example of when someone should be 100% canceled, you cannot excuse that.
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u/Ltrain86 16h ago
Then it goes on to discuss a Zionist "documentary" she's been doing, and she laments how poor sweet Pink has recently been unfairly criticized for "sharing her opinion".
Good lord.
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u/MazzIsNoMore 16h ago
Pink was just speaking her mind but Javier Bardem is a big meanie for speaking his mind
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u/Midnight_2B 16h ago
Oh she's pandering to get that Angel Studios money. Maybe she can be in solo mio 2
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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 16h ago
She has multiple sclerosis and didn't work for a long time. She is now in remission after bone marrow/stem cell treatments. I believe she had just started working again when she made that comment.
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u/Dairy_Ashford 13h ago
she was in the Anger Management sitcom Charlie Sheen did after Two and a Half Men, and left while publicly stating that Sheen was unprofessional.
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u/HereOnCompanyTime 16h ago
I read through the article and wasn't even comfortable posting her comment as a quote because I was afraid by account might get flagged for hate speech. Her entire speech was victimizing herself while she knew better than to repeat her words because that would lose her empathy. She's gross.
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u/shakka74 4h ago
My account got flagged for quoting her vile post.
Alas, AI is policing what we say even though it apparently can’t decipher context. I weep for our future. Not only because dolts like Blair spread such awful hate but also because apparently we can’t even have human conversations about it!
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u/deev718 16h ago
don’t you hate when you make blatantly racist statements that no one forced you to say and suddenly people don’t want to work with you? super inconvenient
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u/Apprehensive-Elk7898 15h ago
I don’t get her. I am so confused by her and this speech. What on earth is this
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u/TwinsiesBlue 15h ago
She wants you to know that the post she made and apologized for is who she really is, and shame on you all who don’t want anything to do with me, it’s only me and my child that is hurting. Or something to that nature
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u/sprynklz 15h ago
Oh noooo if it isn’t the direct consequences for my own actions!? What’re you doing here!?
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u/ICUMF1962 16h ago
Hellboy deserved better
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u/GreatMacGuffin 16h ago
During the Hellboy commentary she specifically asks Ron Perlman not to use profanity because it makes her feel yucky...Ron laughed at her statement.
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u/flyinglawngnome 15h ago
She sounds fucking lame in her personal life, she is absolutely that Mom who helicopters the shit out of her kid and wrecks his social upbringing with her meddling.
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u/dragonasses 14h ago
Helicopter Mom is putting it lightly. I get strong boy mom/emotional incest vibes from all the weird things she has posted about her son.
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u/macsrecords 15h ago
Imagine being an adult in 2026 and still getting upset over curse words. What a cop out.
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u/TheNamesDave 15h ago
>During the Hellboy commentary she specifically asks Ron Perlman not to use profanity because it makes her feel yucky...Ron laughed at her statement.
>>Imagine being an adult in 2026 and still getting upset over curse words. What a cop out.
The movie came out on DVD in 2004. That’s when the adult upset about curse words occurred, not 2026.
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u/camilleswaterbottle 13h ago
Was this clarification actually necessary? What are you trying to say?
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u/maywellbe 14h ago
Here’s the offensive tweet she posted:
> “Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
While this is pretty disgusting rhetoric, my instinct is that so many people walked away from her as much due to the inherent instability in the expression of the sentiment as the hatefulness. Meaning: people don’t want to be publicly and commercially tied to someone who, on any given day, might just shout something this problematic into the public square.
The world of commerce is not immune to holding regrettable — and sometimes quite gut-turning views — but it knows to be incredibly careful with their expression. Blair does not.
No one wants their brand affiliated with a person who is prone to blurting shit out on a whim when that shit can be this ugly.
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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen 7h ago
It is like Rosanne Barr's randomly racist tweet that basically ended her career. Like, who could have predicted that? Meanwhile you have Kelsey Grammer sharing the same horrible views, but he is smart enough to know what to say and when and thus keep getting jobs. You can't be a hateful POS and a loose cannon and expect to keep getting work.
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u/YoghurtFlan 6h ago
The problem there is twitter. It is not a safe space, it is a space for everybody to be at their worst.
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u/nthensome 16h ago
Oof.
I was unaware of her comment.
That's an unforced error if I've ever seen one
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u/KyleFromBorrasca 14h ago
Honestly when I read the headline I assumed it was something about MS and people were just being cruel to her again.
It was not that.
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u/Background_Sleep_863 16h ago
She made some odious comment after Charlie Kirk died too.
I already didn't like her because she shills for the MS meds while never acknowledging how impossible it is for some to afford
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u/leesainmi 15h ago
"This incredible man. Who would go into the cauldron of indoctrination. And use logic to have dialogue. I am sick for his family. For all of us.” She also called him a true patriot LOL
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u/Catowldragons 13h ago
Kristin Chenoweth got a lot of backlash because of what she wrote about Charlie Kirk but the thing that really got me was that she replied to this comment with agreed or something like that.
I can see where a famous person might be so insulated that all they see is “someone died, that is sad,” but agreeing with universities being cauldrons of indoctrination? That’s some right wing talking points right there.
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u/MitaJoey20 15h ago
The CK comment is why I unfollowed her. I’d missed the Islam comment entirely but others pointed it out in the comments after her CK post.
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u/seragrey 16h ago
"This incredible man [Charlie Kirk]. Who would go into the cauldron of indoctrination. And use logic to have dialogue. I am sick for his family. For all of us." - Selma
"What you said, Selma" - Kristin Chenoweth
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u/chiquimonkey 16h ago edited 15h ago
Warning: do not post a quote of what she said or you WILL get a Reddit warning for hate speech.
Ask me how I know 😱
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u/WhoStoleMyJacket 15h ago
Interesting phenomenon that celebrities go full mask off and embrace far right as soon as their pop cultural relevance reach zero.
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u/cold-vein 9h ago
Dumbass rich person who thought they're untouchable gets put in their place, she gets her money from regular folks. Piss everyone off with racism and you get what you deserve.
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u/BarcelonetaE70 16h ago
To be honest, her career was non-existant past the nineties (except for a brief pseudo-comeback thanks to the Hellboy films). Then add her living with Multiple Sclerosis to the mix, which definitely impacted whatever career she could possibly have anyway.
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u/Olaf__Berserker 16h ago
“I still don’t know what any of them were thinking. No one returned my calls,”
Oh, I can take a guess, Selma.
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u/ChewieBearStare 12h ago
I'm sorry she has MS, and I hope her treatments are effective, but she's a terrible person.
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u/SaltandLillacs 16h ago
Hope her new things flop. All she does is whine about the “trauma” she’s endured for being a racist bitch on instagram.
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u/Fuck_Mark_Robinson 14h ago
She apparently didn’t get cancelled enough if we still have to listen to her claptrap. She’s a wealthy bigot, who gives a fuck about her feelings.
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u/DayGeckoArt 15h ago
So the ADL had her speak on how she defamed Muslims?
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u/FatiguedSailor24 16h ago
Selma Blair is an insufferable person always playing the victim.
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u/TufnelAndI 16h ago
Normally I can allow for people who 'misspeak' and apologise quickly. But hanging with the ADL and dissing Javier Bardem for speaking up against Israel? Nah, fuck you.
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u/MrsSmith2246 12h ago
She wants us to feel bad because she knows what it’s like to be erased because of a fucking book deal but doesn’t care about a group of people including children being erased. Selfish bitch, I hope her life sucks
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u/TectonicQuake 14h ago
I never forgot what her and Debra Messing said online. I stopped caring about both of them and anything they were in after that.
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u/RandomSlimeL 16h ago
At the risk of abelism I don't think people with recurrent MS are in demand on action movie sets.
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u/Unlucky-Duck 15h ago
She was never really that big even before MS diagnosis.
She had some roles 20 something years ago like in Hell Boy 1 and 2, Legally Blonde and Cruel Intentions and that's about it.
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u/Altruistic_Act1678 14h ago
She has relapse remitting? That’s the “better” MS so if she’s on proper meds, it could lead to a regular life. Maybe do some research before labeling her.
PS I don’t like her, but sill have to defend the MS community2
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u/Fun_Description_02 13h ago
I don’t think even with a more normal life would she be able to be on an action set. A fully normal person struggles on a set due to the long hours and many long hours on your feet and physicality. Being on set is brutal. We have grueling schedules 9/10 on a set. So I can see what they’re saying and I don’t think it’s meant as a jab to MS community.
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u/tfresca 13h ago edited 12h ago
This correct. No studio wants potential problems and she’s not famous enough to be worth the effort. I don’t think this is right but it is reality. Hollywood is racist, sexist, ageist and ableist. I will also add Hollywood so rarely hires disabled actors to play disabled people that when it does happen it’s news.
There have been many instances of actors hiding illnesses to keep working. They know how it works.
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u/SantaBarbaraMint 10h ago
Her position seems to be “I issued a statement of apology that was written by a publicist after the reprehensible thing I said so I don’t know why people haven’t forgiven me yet?“
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u/wrongsock_42 16h ago edited 15h ago
Cancelled woman gets article humanizing her in Hollywood Reporter.
It just keeps happening.
America and Zionism bringing Peace to the Middle East for 75+ years
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u/TheFumingatzor 12h ago edited 11h ago
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
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u/SwanCommercial8212 15h ago
She's on THE payroll now.
Let's see how loud she can get. Nothing like Michael Rappawhore
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u/Educational_Nose2172 14h ago
i can’t think of that loser without the image of him shovelling food into his mouth on traitors popping into my head. everything about him is just so gross and slimy, i can’t
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u/bwoah07_gp2 11h ago
But what did she say originally???
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u/LargePrompt5840 3h ago
De. port all the .se terr..orist suppo. rting goon. s. Isl. am has destroyed Mus .lim coun. tries and then they come here and dest. royed minds
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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 13h ago
I read her book and honestly she doesn’t seem like a mentally well person. Her mother was a narcissist and Selma seems to have the same stuff going on… and she also has an unhealthy co-dependent relationship with her son.
She’s got a lot of red flags.
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u/FangornLeghorn 5h ago
Her comment:
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
Yeah, you glibly spout racist shit like that, you deserve the fallout. Deal with it.
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u/OsawatomieJB 16h ago
I wanted to feel bad for her but ended up knowing that she doesn’t feel bad herself. Not nearly enough. BTW….fuck Pink.
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u/holeycheezuscrust 15h ago
I think she was trying to say that radical Islam was hurting Muslim countries, which is true. She just forgot to add the 'radical' part.
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u/Blacknite45 16h ago edited 16h ago
Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.
I mean she could've worded it better such stating "regressive Islam" because that's actually true, the majority of the middleeast are under regressive Islamic rule and they've done nothing but made things objectively worse for their people
whether it's Afghanistan under the taliban
Islamic Republic in Iran etc etc
But instead she comes across that she was talking plainly about Muslims which isn't correct
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u/seasidereads 15h ago
She now knows what “being erased feels like”?
Yeah, I think Palestine would like a word about the meaning of being erased and here is a hint, it’s not your Hollywood agent dropping you 🙄
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u/No_Aardvark4795 2h ago
Person who gets rich of of being popular learns there's no money in bigotry. How sad.
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u/HCS_92 15h ago
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
I can't imagine being this hateful. It must be so exhausting to live like that.
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u/skeetersammer 14h ago
Jeeeeesus. There’s a girl on TikTok who just does weird random things and/or random acts of kindness. Like she paints/redecorates her bathroom every month, she has a whole little free convenience store for delivery drivers at her house, and she cleared out a whole angel tree during Christmas last year. I always see comments on her videos along the lines of “I am not using my free will to its full extent.” And just…we have all this free will. And THIS is how Selma Blair uses it???
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u/nonsensestuff 14h ago
Hahaha I’ve come across that girls videos before too. Like how does she have the energy??
But yeah… so much good people with privilege like Selma have and yet she uses her platform to punch down on an entire group of people.
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u/shakka74 9h ago
Reminds me of JK Rowling. So much money, could’ve used it to make the world a better place. Instead, she chooses to spread hate.
Some people are just rotten.
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u/Playful-Cream1279 14h ago
Perpetual victimhood. "These things I chose to say impacted my career, whaaaaaa whaaaaa, please feel bad for meeeeeeeeee". Get outta here, lady.
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u/Udumbqueef 10h ago
Another “ how dare I be held accountable for the shitty things I've said!” mentality.
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u/BlueSharpieLA 13h ago
The comment:
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
Yup. That’s pretty bad.
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u/i_cant_get_fat 15h ago
When you read what she said about pink being canceled it just seems like an empty apology.
Also seems like she is trying to act like the victim. Blaming the backlash to her comment for damaging her son’s childhood.
She seems abusive tbh.
Poor kid.
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u/Prudent_Rice7840 7h ago
That doesn't explain her not booking anything (other than Dancing with the Stars) for three years BEFORE the IG post.
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u/Maleficent_Young_524 16h ago
Is it bad to speak against religious extremism or terrorism?
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u/ketchup_secret 11h ago
Everyone can denounce Christian nationalists but when you criticize Muslims doing terrorism you’re a racist.
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u/KronoCloud 15h ago
I’m sure The Daily Wire is working on some shitty movie she could definitely star in
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u/someothervoices 14h ago
I’m glad that this article is hitting a lot of people because there’s no excuse for conflating Islam with radical fundamentalism. Interesting that she made a documentary and that it’s not about her reckoning with our words have impact. I’d rather watch documentary about her failing career because she can’t keep her mouth shut.
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u/WildwestPstyle 6h ago
Reddit gets up in arms about this but will mass upvote a comment that says the exact same thing about Christians and Christianity, an objectively less oppressive religion.
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u/discardedbubble 15h ago
So what Javier Bardem apparently’did’ to Pink is a worse than a genocide in her opinion
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u/Scripter-of-Paradise 15h ago
So that's why I haven't heard about her since 2008.
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u/DefinitionSuperb1110 14h ago
She outed herself as a truly horrific person. She's lucky anyone is willing to give her paying work at any level.
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u/deekymoon 12h ago
Erased? She knows what it feels like to be erased? To be erased is to be wiped out systematically. To be displaced. To watch your land and people suffer and literally get erased off the face of the earth into rubble and ash.
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u/Legitimate_Notice921 9h ago
I hope the career fallout continues. Go make a a movie with Ben Shapiro and shut up, lady
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u/chiquimonkey 16h ago
Here’s the statement she posted if anyone is curious:
“Deport all these terrorist supporting goons. Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.”
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u/Plenty_Building_72 15h ago
This vile person giving a speech at the war laundering propaganda organisation that shills for Israel is about all you need to know about her. She’s exactly the type of person AIPAC would fund if she decided to get into politics.
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u/sgtpaintbrush 15h ago
Notice in the article it says that she commented on the "Israel-'Hamas'" war. They don't want you to think about what Isreal is doing to Palestine so they frame it as if theyre JUST going after hamas
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u/Playful_Nothing_4645 15h ago
I feel like if anybody said what she said about Muslims about Jews or Christians, people these days would applaud it.
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u/Czarina2018 16h ago
I didn't even know she made some comments. But now that she brought it up - yikes!