• oregoncom [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    antisemitic Times Square Elmo

    “He started talking about Fisherman’s Wharf as Jew Town, and the Jews this and the Jews that, in a derogatory, racist fashion,” Meyers added. “I was getting upset. There were kids in the cars, young girls listening.” However, Sandler clarified that his comments were not anti-Semitic, but anti-Zionist, and he is simply “a Jewish man critical of Israel.”

    walter-shock

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCogsi4uxlM

      I can't seem to find the original anymore, just news coverage of it. Cookie Monster has to talk Elmo down from fucking it up for everybody by screaming "Hindus rape children".