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Amanda compared her Charlie Kirk remark to Donald Trump’s arguable Rob Reiner post, and points were made.
Back successful September, Amanda Seyfried sparked backlash erstwhile she publically criticized right-wing activistic Charlie Kirk aft helium was shot and killed during a nationalist speaking lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University.
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On an Instagram reel that compiled immoderate of Charlie’s offensive quotes astir Black women, immigrants, and transgender people, among different topics, Amanda wrote: “He was hateful.”
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And erstwhile she was chastised for speaking negatively astir Charlie truthful soon aft his death, Amanda clarified her stance successful a longer statement that was posted to her Instagram page. She wrote: “We are forgetting the nuance of humanity. I tin get aggravated astir misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO precise overmuch hold that Charlie Kirk's execution was perfectly disturbing and deplorable successful each mode imaginable. No 1 should person to acquisition this level of violence. This state is grieving excessively galore senseless and convulsive deaths and shootings. Can we hold connected that astatine least?"
"I mean, for fuck's sake, I commented connected 1 thing," she added astatine the time. "I said thing that was based connected existent world and existent footage and existent quotes. What I said was beauteous damn factual, and I'm escaped to person an opinion, of course." Amanda besides reflected connected her determination to station the longer connection astatine the time, explaining: “I was capable to springiness immoderate clarity, and it was astir getting my dependable backmost due to the fact that I felt similar it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what radical do, of course.”
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And now, Amanda has won enactment erstwhile again aft she reflected connected however she was “bashed for denouncing racism,” arsenic she compared her Instagram remark to President Donald Trump’s arguable station pursuing the tragic death of Rob and Michele Reiner connected Dec. 14.
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If you request reminding, esteemed Hollywood manager and histrion Rob and his woman Michele were recovered dormant successful an evident homicide. Two days later, their youngest son, Nick Reiner, was charged with 2 counts of first-degree murder.
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Rob was an outspoken governmental activist passim his career, and regularly spoke retired against Trump, saying successful September: "It’s truly gotten to a very, precise scary spot successful this country, and we’re going to person to fig retired however to excavation ourselves retired of this earlier it’s excessively long. But we person got to support speaking out. Everybody has to support speaking out."
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One time aft quality of the devastating deaths broke, Trump sparked shockwaves erstwhile helium took to his platform, Truth Social, and described Rob arsenic a "tortured and struggling, but erstwhile precise talented movie manager and drama star." Trump added that the mates died “reportedly owed to the choler helium caused others done his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a caput crippling illness known arsenic TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to arsenic TDS.”
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“He was known to person driven radical CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,” Trump went on. “with his evident paranoia reaching caller heights arsenic the Trump Administration surpassed each goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, possibly similar ne'er before.”
And successful a caller interrogation with The Knock Turnal, Amanda said: “To get bashed for saying the information and for denouncing racism, to get bashed for denouncing racism, and past to work what the president of the United States is saying astir a tragic fucking homicide of an unthinkable antheral and his wife...”
“These 2 unthinkable radical who are conscionable for the greater good, warring for the fucking greater good, and seeing that being… I don’t even… it’s unbelievable however backwards things tin feel,” Amanda went on. “Yet determination are truthful galore radical that aren’t bots down a machine surface that aren’t conscionable determination to comment. Who are really actively moving to bring backmost immoderate semblance of bid and goodwill… There are truthful galore of america who conscionable privation to consciousness similar there’s immoderate benignant of transportation that we tin marque unneurotic to each other.”
And Amanda’s openness and willingness to sermon her Charlie Kirk comments arsenic good arsenic Trump portion promoting her caller movie, The Housemaid, has been praised connected societal media, with 1 Reddit idiosyncratic pointing out: “Lot of actor/actress debar delicate topics portion determination are successful their promo tour.”
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“I couldn't emotion and respect her immoderate much than I do. She's a fucking existent 1 and she should beryllium supported by immoderate of america who see ourselves decent quality beings, due to the fact that truthful galore scumbags person revealed themselves to beryllium scumbags successful the past 12 months alone,” idiosyncratic other wrote.
“damn. you tin archer she truly feels these words. it's not tally done immoderate PR filter it seems. she's speaking similar these words are moving retired of her rima and escaping her. one respect,” different added.
While 1 much concluded: “Always loved her. Love her 10 times much for not backing down.”
You tin ticker the interrogation clip below. As always, fto maine cognize your thoughts successful the comments!
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