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Melissa Barrera Dropped From ‘Scream VII’ After Social Media Posts Amid Israel-Hamas War (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
submitted 11 months ago by shadysus@lemmy.ca to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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“Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp,” she wrote in one post on Instagram stories. “Cornering everyone together, with no where to go, no electricity no water … People have learnt nothing from our histories. And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING.”

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.”

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[–] shadysus@lemmy.ca 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The bit that stood out to me was

We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion

It sounds like they threw in "Holocaust distortion" as an extra thing to make their stance sound more legitimate, since otherwise it sounds awful. Why would anyone ever get in trouble for "false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing" even if we assume it was "false"

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

The irony is she acknowledged a genocide and got fired by people who actively deny it...

At that point it doesn't matter what else they're claiming