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Old 03-01-2011, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Midwestern Dystopia
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Natalie Portman, who is under contract with Dior to endorse a perfume, has condemned comments by it's chief designer about Hitler and Jews.

Natalie Portman Condemns Galliano - NYTimes.com


this is comming from a woman who signed the "Free Roman Polanski" petition and is a devout vegan who thinks meat is a sin.


Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Natalie Portman: Meat’s a Sin, Free Polanski

so let me get this straight. Some drunk idiot in a bar makes a few anti-semitic comments and says he likes Hitler (ironic b/c the man himself is gay and we all know how Hitler felt about gays) and a "proud jewish" person whose changed her name from Herzschlag to Portman condemns him but willingly signs a petition to free a Jew who, as an adult, raped and sodomized a 14 year old girl.

oh, and everyone should stop eating meat. The killing of animals for meat is bad and torture but rape isn't?

OK then, hypocrite much?
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Old 03-01-2011, 11:56 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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So... your point is what? His comments about Hitler were undeserving of criticism?
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Old 03-01-2011, 11:59 AM
 
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Natalie Portman supported Roman Polanski? Wow. She is disgusting.

Galliano isn't blameless either - his comments were tasteless, drunk or sober.
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Old 03-01-2011, 12:05 PM
 
Location: OCEAN BREEZES AND VIEWS SAN CLEMENTE
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Natalie Portman supported Roman Polanski? Wow. She is disgusting.

Galliano isn't blameless either - his comments were tasteless, drunk or sober.

Your right either drunk or sober, those comments were in poor taste.
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:52 PM
 
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So... your point is what? His comments about Hitler were undeserving of criticism?
you don't know what my point is?
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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you don't know what my point is?
To say that I did would be an insult to you. So I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that the post was actually intended to make a point other than the one it seems to be trying to make.

It was meant as a "get out of jail free" card. You don't have to use it if you don't want to.
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Old 03-01-2011, 08:32 PM
 
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Natalie Portman, who is under contract with Dior to endorse a perfume, has condemned comments by it's chief designer about Hitler and Jews.

...... but willingly signs a petition to free a Jew who, as an adult, raped and sodomized a 14 year old girl.


OK then, hypocrite much?
Why did you make it a point to mention that Polanski is a Jew, which I didn't know or care.
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Old 03-01-2011, 08:44 PM
 
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Why did you make it a point to mention that Polanski is a Jew, which I didn't know or care.
Yeah, Polanski is a Polish Jew who escaped from the Krakow ghetto and survived the Holocaust. His mother died in Auschwitz.


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Old 03-01-2011, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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She is so brave!! She has staked out some pretty bold territory!
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Old 03-01-2011, 08:57 PM
 
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She's an Israeli -- bravery is in her blood!

As for Polanski, the teenager had consensual sex with him so it was statuatory rape, and she has made a public statement that she does not want him to be imprisoned. If the "victim" doesn't want him punished, and if he does not pose a risk to others as a sexual perv, then I'm not going to get too harsh on Natalie for signing the petition. I would not have signed it, however. I just don't like the guy.
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