Jamie Foxx apologizes to the Jewish community for social media post
Jamie Foxx apologizes to the Jewish community for social media post
Jamie Foxx is attempting to clear up a misunderstanding stemming from a since-deleted social media post that was criticized by some as antisemitic.
Foxx’s message was in reference to a prior post, no longer found on his feed, which read, “They killed this dude named Jesus… What do you think they’ll do to you???!” He ended the post with the hashtags #fakefriends and #fakelove.
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The tweet in question: "They killed this dude named Jesus… What do you think they’ll do to you???! #fakefriends and #fakelove"
In the world we live in, I can see how someone might interpret this as antisemitic, but it's a non-story in my opinion. I'm certaint he meant sinners or something along those lines.
Right, why would people assume he's saying Jews killed Jesus when he did not, in fact, say anything about Jews and Jews did not kill Jesus? I could make the argument that people assuming the worst possible interpretation of Jamie Foxx's words is, in itself, potentially offensive, but I'm not going to jump to conclusions about why they jumped to those conclusions. These types of non stories happen all the time on Twitter and get way more traction than they ever should. We shouldn't even be talking about this right now lol
What is the alternative interpretation?
Fake Friends, because Judas claimed to be Jesus's friend, but betrayed him.
So you think he's talking about the Romans or something? Makes zero sense.
And your argument is, what, that the News turned Jesus in but didn't directly kill him?
It's not a question of potential. The words are outright offensive, in fact, in reality. And they're pure discrimination, too. Even if some group of people did something shady 2000 years ago, why does that have anything to do with people today? It doesn't, unless...
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Saying "they" vs "we" would make me think he means a group he isn't a part of. Now what that group is could be debated, could even be as broad as white people or foreigners or friends/people close to you. Hard to know without context, but the fake friends hashtag does somewhat allude to being back stabbed by people close to you (though one could apply the term friends to any group too).
I think his excuse makes sense, but I also understand how people could easily jump to assuming Jews (I'll admit that would be my first gut reaction)
Read the article. Not every casual tweet has to have monumental importance.
He wasn't talking about Jewish people at all. His only fault here is failing to see how easily his poor choice of words would be misinterpreted by the internet outrage machine.
He clarified it meant "fake friends" which in the context of the Jesus story makes perfect sense. The moral here is maybe don't post every random thought that pops into your head.
The idea that Jews collectively killed Jesus is nothing new.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/who-killed-jesus/
And it's still around. Survey from 2004 linked below shows that about a quarter of Americans held that belief and that it had increased since the late nineties. Hell, I think it was a theme in Jesus Christ Superstar.
I guess someone could be ignorant of all this, but whenever someone brings up who "killed Jesus" they're usually not trying to make some vague point via an innocent analogy. In other words, if someone comes out talking about one of the foundational ideas behind European/American anti-Semitism, I'm going to make some assumptions.
But who knows. Maybe those hoofbeats mean I'm about to be overrun by a herd of zebras.
It's more to do with the context of his past opinions. If I remember right, Jamie Foxx is one of those people like Kanye who think that black people are the real Jews and everything is a conspiracy against them