Old racist votes for old racist.
More at 9.
Mel should do the right maga thing. As a immigrant he should self deport himself.
We don’t want him back now. You’ve ruined him.
Don’t blame us for your road warrior.
This guy is a racist piece of shit. Always has been.
You mean the same guy who said he hopes his (then) partner gets “raped by a pack of n****rs” isn’t voting for Kamala? I’m shocked I tell you.
He’s been unhinged for years, we should have cancelled him decades ago and let Mel succumb to his own alcoholism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paV0yADFXBY
Sorry for all I could find was horrible quality
U did good
Ok Im watching it over and over again and I can’t make out when Key says “yes. He is the most racist [blank] in the world”?
“…most racist man in the world,” I believe he says.
Did he blame the Jews again?
I think that’s just implicit now
No, but I’m shocked he didn’t, he’d probably get a standing ovation from the right and be among the elite right aside the my pillow guy and Elon.
Yes Mel Gibson is still bonkers.
Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he’ll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life
“I separate people and their art” people are the fuckin’ worst and huge part of the problem, too, since they don’t do a damn thing to incentivise those losers to stop what they’re doing, either.
When I learned that “Sweet Home Alabama” was in bitter response to Neil Young’s “Southern Man” I just stopped listening to it. There is so much music in the world, I’ve been fine without Lynyrd Skynyrd. I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a Mel Gibson movie and I seem to be ok.
Eh, Mad Max, Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome are classics. Lethal Weapon was good.
He was even decent in the John Wick flashback “The Continental”.
I haven’t seen ‘em and I’m doing perfectly ok. And guess what, I didn’t know he was involved and now I’m gunna not watch ‘em even harder. It’s just that easy.
Congratulations, you haven’t watched some movies. Truly a saint
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I would say that “Sweet Home Alabama” is very different. It was not written bitterly and it was written by a bunch of Neil Young fans (and Neil himself loved the song). The point of “Sweet Home Alabama” was to show that there were people who grew up in the South who weren’t racist, who acknowledged and decried the racist history of the South, but who also felt resentment at being lumped in with the racists, past and present. Being both proud of being from the South and ashamed of being from the South at the same time even has its own term, coined AFAIK by the band The Drive-By Truckers: “the duality of the Southern Thing.”
There are plenty of artists and musicians that should just be written off, but I don’t think Skynyrd is among them. They were actually relatively progressive for their background and were trying to paint a fairly sophisticated and balanced story; it’s not their fault that their fanbase evolved into a bunch of racist assholes who preempted the song for their own causes, especially since the heart and soul of the band died in a plane crash in 1977. But that’s just my two cents as a huge music fan who grew up listening to Skynyrd in the 90’s.
They heard “Southern Man” and went so hard “not all southerners” that they even included the line directly telling Neil to fuck off. One of their black back-up singers went on to cover “Southern Man” as a little bit of a personal win for her. Lynyrd Skynyrd could have done a million things that weren’t that in response but instead they wrote that little piece of whiny-baby bullshit. They did it all on their own, without their base needing to misinterpret anything. Fuck ‘em, I got loads of fantastic music to listen to without giving that one any of my time.
People have literally died for their rights and we’re so damned soft we can’t even just consume different yet equally good, or better, media and that’s fuckin’ weak. Sometimes we aren’t given much choice but it’s not like we’re hurting for high-quality music, TV, and literature. It’s so fucking easy.
This is such a horseshit take.
The entire song is a screed to southern ignorance including the gem “Watergate does not bother me”
These assholes are part of the reason we ended up with trump.
Get fucked.
“Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?”
Bother in this case means he’s not losing sleep at night over it due to any regrets. This was all Northern people being corrupt. An answer to southerners being bad and evil.
It was not meant to be interpreted as they don’t care
I agree, but take a fucking chill pill. Everyone has an opinion.
Well now I definitely don’t feel bad about torrenting Braveheart
smell shitson
time to take another long hiatus from work, mel.
Nonsense, he will get steady work alongside Kevin Sorbo!
Pretty sure even Mel Gibson has more pride than that. You only go full Sorbo when you done fucked up real fucken bad.
So many out of work actors raging their boy is getting destroyed by a woman.
Not defending the guy, but he has not at all been out of work. He just hasn’t been in movie theaters nationwide. He’s been in plenty of stuff recently. John Oliver even mentioned how crazy it’s been that he’s been so busy despite all the racist and antisemitic rants he’s had.
So many immigrants complaining about immigration too.
You mean Elon? Yeah, he’s always been a noisy little bitch about things…
TBF, Australia has a really big problem with racism. Against immigrants in particular.
As an American that traveled there 2 years ago on vacation, it was typical for them to ice break with “so how about them immigrants” after they found out we were American (and assumed all Americans are Texans I guess, by the stereotype they were expecting)
That’s true. We are a racist country on the whole. Like the US, it really shows in the regional areas.
The Passion of the Anti-Christ
I tried finding a gif of Mel in a straight jacket from Lethal Weapon, but I’ll settle for this one:
Why is anyone still listening to this man enough for this to make it to a headline?
A high enough percentage of people without ad-block were likely enough to click.
Who the fuck is “Mel Gibson?”
“Say what you want about the man, but the sunuvabitch knows story structure!”
