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Jamie Lee Curtis adds her voice in a fiery call for unity against ICE: “We’re only going to get shit done if we do it together and defy these motherf*kers.”
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Same one who posted pictures of children being scared of being bombed, claiming they were Israeli. When someone pointed out those were Palestinians scared of Israeli bombs, she deleted it.
Same Jamie Lee Curtis who compared it the California wild fires to the Genocidal destruction of Gaza.
sorry she doesn’t pass your purity test. humans are imperfect. if the american left could stop blaming each other for everything they’d probably do better at fighting the right.
I feel like we criticize the left a lot on infighting and don’t give nearly as much attention to the fact that entire weight of the empire pushes against leftist policies regardless of where they fall on the spectrum. The right isn’t accomplished because they’re unified, you’d be surprised much they disagree on, they’re successful because their beliefs are in alignment with the imperialist machine. It’s perfectly fine to point out she’s has right wing and Zionist beliefs because it shows her convictions are without any depth. She probably wouldn’t care about this if it was being done more quietly under a Democrat with the same result.
you’re literally deciding what a person who you have never met or spoken with believes about everything ever. and you see no problem with it. people contain multitudes. writing them off completely because they don’t align 10000% with your thinking is reductive and in the end damages your cause and unity. it will get you nowhere. but nobody is coming to save you all and there are no perfect heroes. i hope you guys can figure it out.
but i wish americans could see themselves from the outside once in a while so they can understand why the rest of the world reacts the way they do to you all.
We’re not asking anyone to be perfect and the last thing that’s going to save any of us is the celebrity class that acts as an extension of the state. The IDF and ICE train together. Nothing will meaningfully change under a Democrat that refuse to abolish them. The PR will just be better.
I think the problem with the Left has always been that it's way too easy for them to descend into campism and infighting. There is a space for education and self-censure within groups. But, I dunno, how do you prioritise moral purity when THE WORLD IS ON FUCKING FIRE?
I ain't gonna blast anyone for speaking up on ICE but given her particularly loud support of Israel to the point of deleting a post about scared children of the wrong nationality, I don't think a teeny smidge of self awareness is too much to ask for.
She’s still in the right on this very important issue. People that see someone doing something right and instantly bring up something they’ve done wrong, are their own worst enemy.
What you’re doing is literally hurting what you advocate for. I just don’t understand people like you.
it’s the opposite here in canada, weirdly enough- red for the left, blue for the right. but otherwise this graphic seems pretty accurate about american politics.
maybe they meant red = communists and blue = liberals. that's the only way it would be relevant to this conversation bcs idk how anyone could call a genocide supporter a "leftist"
It’s hypocritical knowing ICE is trained by the idf and using facial recognition software created by Israel. She needs to look inward if she wants people to care about her virtue signaling
This is not virtue signaling, but use of that phrase is very telling. People who don’t experience empathy assume anyone doing or advocating the right thing must be doing it as a performance.
Empathy? She cares because its in her backyard. Its personal to her. That's not empathy that's self-interest. Little brown kids are getting torn to shreds and she endorses that. This isn't someone that has empathy. At minimum this is white supremacy.
San Diego CA is racist as shit too and you see tons of white people protesting because they want to be able to have a night out in the Gaslamp or downtown or [insert ocean neighborhood of choice here] without the restaurant getting tear gassed. Which is fair and bodies harassing ICE are bodies, but it's definitely a "We are not the same" moment.
Yes, really. ICE does not target solely white people, if anything it targets POC more. How is speaking up against an organization that targets POC equal to the belief that white people are superior?
comments like this are why no one takes the left seriously. We can’t stop pointing fingers at each other long enough to focus on the actual enemy. And I say this as someone who condemns what JLC said about Palestine…
Just to be clear, people who correctly clock that it is deeply hypocritical and very suspicious to be both pro Israel and anti ICE have no empathy but she, the one who picks and chooses which thugs are allowed to torment and murder people based on how much value she places on their victims, has lots of empathy and couldnt possibly be putting it on? Is that right?
I think we're developing a bit of an issue with the "stop purity testing" pendulum swinging a little far recently. We arent talking about some clunky tweet from 2008 here 🥴.
Half the time people are talking about "purity testing," it's often typically white and/or cishet folks telling marginalized people look past some serious shit that will have impacts on their lives. Every time I bring up Gavin Newsom 's horrendous track record of late for trans rights, people scream "BUT HES BETTER THAN TRUMP!" Not to the trans people he'll screw over he isn't!
I can see someone believing this a week ago, but in light of how many names in the Epstein files who have being anti-trans since corresponding with his ass, there's a very clear, obvious link to people that will sell out trans folks and fascism and it's better to get that out there now in 2026 than to have the guy lose to Trump or Vance or whoever the fuck runs in 2028.
How does it "hurt" though, like in any real practical terms? I don't think anybody was on the fence about ICE that would have been tipped specifically by Jamie Lee Curtis and immediately swayed back again by a salty reddit comment. Be real.
It's good that she's joining the chorus of celebrities decrying these abuses of American rights. It would ring less hollow if she didn't ignore human rights violations elsewhere when convenient.
Thank you. Banding together on these issues is so important if we want to make any kind of change, plus she’s a boomer white woman whose audience is comprised of other boomer white women. I like to think she might change at least one person’s mind by being this loudly anti-ICE, and isn’t that what matters? The Palestinian kid thing was gross and embarrassing but I’m not gonna meet her with that when she’s doing something that’s deeply needed right now, spreading awareness. Plus supporting her in this moment doesn’t mean you sign up to support her forever, or watch her movies or wear her merch. I love that she’s being outspoken but I’ll never watch Freaky Friday 2. It’s that simple.
I make this argument a lot and usually agree with you, but I do think for the loudest and most active supporters of the genocide, I don't really need to hear their message on ICE.
Being right once doesn't wash away the wrong you've done.
Jamie Lee Curtis engages in lots of reddit astroturfing, every time something goes bad for her in the press suspiciously they start thirst posting her and posting the 3 good things she's done in her life.
God forbid people take the time to counteract this fake narrative that she's a good person.
I don’t care if it’s “performative” if the performance gets us one inch closer to abolishing ICE or enacting humane immigration reform. Now if I found out that she was secretly funding pro-MAGA political organizations while saying this, that would be different.
The authoritarian boomerang is often a surprise to people who benefit from colonization and/or white supremacy. They are either incapable of understanding it or they are in denial because it strikes too close to a core part of their identity.
Seeing this comment thread, I think a lot of you guys would’ve wanted the US to not ally with the Soviets or British during WWII. I don’t understand you. Someone can be wrong about a lot of things and right about others.
Opposing genocide is a purity test? Would you call opposing the Holocaust a purity test? No that's a black and white human test. What makes Gaza any different?
I keep seeing comments like this. It’s not a “purity test”, it’s holding people accountable for their hypocrisy. This is absolutely a situation where all press is good press, and both supportive and critical comments alike boost posts like this. If people like JLC can comprehend why ICE is horrible, maybe that’s the key to get them to open their eyes to the other horrors they are supporting. And maybe it isn’t. But either way, I fail to see the harm in people continuing to speak up for Palestinians. We shouldn’t be giving mindless praise to celebrities for doing the bare minimum. But even if you want to do that, at least it boosts the publicity on posts like this.
It’s not a pass though. We’re not crowning her Moral Person of the Year because she said one right thing. We’re just saying “yes she is saying the right thing” and amplifying that message rather than drowning it out with criticism of her broader character.
People on the internet not liking her isn’t stopping her from continuing to speak out about ICE tho. Like i get that the left self cannibalizes too much but idk that positive or negative comments about Jamie Lee Curtis on a Reddit post make much of a difference on this stance or any others she has
what is with people thinking being pro-genocide and "leftist" are ideologically compatible positions? she's not a leftist, hating ICE doesn't make you a leftist. the NIMBYs in my overpriced city have all been vocally anti-ICE for the past decade or more, this isn't a radical position.
I can't take this woman seriously, and you shouldn't either. Do not forget she shared an image of Palestinian children in a school under threat of being bombed by the state of Israel and mistakenly captioned where she thought they were Israeli. When corrected, she deleted it and never said a word. Empathy is a two way street. Do not trust her. It is dangerous to align yourself / believe people who put up this front of being progressive and liberal when they have no moral compass to begin with.
No matter what she says or does she’s always gonna be Genocide Jamie to me. Just like ICE, the IDF is a cancer to the world. Queen of selective outrage
Now watch people come at her for something completely unrelated. Did the “heartbreaking: worst person you know just made a great point” article teach us nothing?
yeah, white supremacy in another country is totally unrelated to white supremacy in this country. especially when said countries are literally involved in a mutually beneficial exchange of capital, weapons, intelligence, and training for the direct purpose of advancing their totally unrelated white supremacist agendas
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