Wow, they’r really socking it to that Jaden Smith guy again. He must work there or something.

It’s not surprising that actor’s kids want to be actors. It’s also not surprising when a bunch of actor’s kids get together with a bunch of director’s kids to make a movie together and find fifty million dollars to make it.

It’s not that people want the children of celebrities to be actors. It’s that the children of celebrities know everybody it takes to meet with the people you have to meet to become an actor and they’re not going to pass on the chance to meet you if they have the chance.

I think your arguments make sense, but there are a few things you haven’t considered here.

It’s all positions in the industry, which few people talk about. Yes, it’s much easier to see nepotism in action with on-screen talent but from producers to directors to gaffers and catering, nepotism in Hollywood is absolutely *rampant*. JJ Abrams? Son of TV producers. Joss Whedon? Third generation TV writer.…

People love a nepo baby, and people who don’t also love to overlook the nepo baby thing if the baby in question is some combination of fun and cool, talented, looks a lot like their parents if the parents are beautiful, or looks nothing like them if the parents are ugly.

Sorry I was having the conversation about nepotism in Hollywood. Nepotism doesn’t refer to only being the direct child of someone else in the industry.

Getting in the door -is- the hard part though.

The insane amount of actors who just so happen to be related to other previous actors strongly disagrees with you.

he faced zero actual consequences.

1. Heche’s kids didn’t earn that money. It’s appropriate for debts to be paid from the estate before the heirs get what’s left.

None of what you wrote makes Chapelle’s comments any less anti-Semitic. You’re just trying to say anti-semitism is justified.

No one needs to be told why they’re less disadvantaged bc there’s people out there who aren’t. You can acknowledge both when there’s a time & place for them. That’s like saying I’m depressed but there’s people with terrible lives in the world and my depression is less depressed/of value than others. You don’t ever…

Racism, antisemitisim, isn’t a state of being. There’s this logic that if I can see non-racism in a person, then they aren’t “racist”. The reality is that it’s about actions, which have consequences.

“Antisemitism is practically unique, in that the central narrative is one of ambition and power.”

I think the problem people have with your view (or more the way you present it) is you do so as a logic problem where everything is a zero-sum game. It misses the entire problem in the debate which is a lack of empathy or willingness to look for empathy. It’s the desire to score points off the other guy, to reduce it…

I’m sure if people exercised their freedom of speech to criticize Black Muslims and Islam that Dave would be super forgiving and not thin-skinned at all. 

I like this comment. I will use it to jump on a landmine. I’m sure someone could use an excuse to yell at a stranger on the internet today.

Oh look just somebody on the Internet stripping all the context and nuance out of an event so they can blame the victim for reacting. 

That was a fuckin’ weird monologue.