Will Smith vs Hitler vs The Jewish People
December 26, 2007 3
The Jewish Defence League has come out against actor Will Smith for saying “”Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today,’ ” Mr. Smith said. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’” After which, The JDL condemned the remarks as “ignorant, detestable and offensive” and urged theatres to pull Mr. Smith’s new movie, I Am Legend. The article cited above says that “he was quoted in the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record as opining that the Nazi dictator wasn’t all bad” which is entirely untrue. The subjectivity of the statement and the subjectivity of historical knowledge of the Holocaust prevents such a statement.
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