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I am, though, kind of puzzled at the claims by some that this should end his career.
If you can rape a minor, escape to Europe pending trial, and still be hailed as a genius in exile then I don't see that holding anti-semitic beliefs (and apparently having done nothing much to act on them) should be an artistic disqualifier.
I also see a lot of people saing in vino veritas which can certainly be true but I also have seen a lot of drunk people who say things they obviously don't believe to be true and are just belligerently trying to piss people off. I have no idea if that is the case, but perhaps when he gets drunk he just starts channeling his father, my to his eternal embarrassment.
In the end, so long as he isn't actively trying to do harm to Jews then I don't really care if he is anti-semitic in thought (though I may not want to be friends with him, it doesn't otherwise affect me) and I am still looking forward to Apocolypto.
Besides, his rampant homophobia and mysogyny have long been part of the public record and if that isn't a disqualification then I don't see why this would be. I'm also surprised at the number of people that seem to think that "sugar tits" is some particularly vulgar term thought up by Gibson. It has a long and illustrious history.
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