Seth Rogen slams Mel Gibson's new Santa Claus movie 'Fatman': 'Ho-ho-Holocaust denier'
Mel Gibson will be playing a “rowdy” Santa Claus in a new film called Fatman — and not many seem happy about it, including Seth Rogen.
Rogen had a cutting response to the news, which was announced on Wednesday:
Ho-ho-holocaust denier. https://t.co/CkkougtqgY
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 9, 2019
Rogen’s “Ho-ho-holocaust denier” comment has more than 100,000 likes and nearly 15,000 retweets compared to the initial tweet from The Hollywood Reporter announcing the news — which had just over 500 likes.
Sarah Silverman was among those to applaud Rogen’s remark.
I love you
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) May 9, 2019
“Is this like Bad Santa,” the 2003 film starring Billy Bob Thornton, “but now with a serving of anti-Semitism?” asked another.
Is this like "Bad Santa," but now with a serving of anti-semitism?
— B?rí A. Williams (@BariAWilliams) May 9, 2019
This commenter weaved some of Gibson’s past anti-Semitic comments into the lyrics of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.”
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to tell you that the Holocaust was a numbers game and that Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world https://t.co/G9b4xdb474— That Jewish Kid (@Joshua_Springer) May 9, 2019
Journalist Yashar Ali posted a whole thread reminding people of some of Gibson’s anti-Semitic and racist comments — while also calling out his abuse against his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.
2. After Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade in 2006 where he said, among other things,"The Jews are responsible for all the wars," he took a hit, but here's how he reacted when asked about in 2016 by Variety.
These aren't the words of a changed man. pic.twitter.com/qKrl1X9jbK— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 8, 2019
That led someone to comment that “at this rate, he’ll be a future president.”
At this rate he’ll be a future president. 😟
— Jason Kneen (@jasonkneen) May 8, 2019
Gibson — who has long been at the center of controversy for making disparaging comments about gays, blacks and Jews (and was blacklisted in Hollywood for almost a decade for it) — received a similar reaction when it was announced last year that he would be directing The Wild Bunch. At the time, Silverman tweeted one of his anti-Semitic quotes: “F***king Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world!” which he said during his 2006 arrest tirade.
People call Gibson a Holocaust denier for ridiculing the number of Jews who were killed by Hitler in the genocide. In a 2006 interview with Reader’s Digest, he said. “I mean when the war was over they said it was 12 million. Then it was six. Now it’s four. I mean it’s that kind of numbers game. …”
Gibson’s father, Hutton Gibson, has also been called a Holocaust denier. He once questioned how the Nazis could have disposed of 6 million bodies during the genocide.
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