No idea how basically saying "I hope people who are being harmed on both sides are able to be safe once more" is "supporting a t3rrorist state" unless I'm missing something here?
About six months ago, the situation in G🍉za became so big that people were no longer capable of ignoring it. One month after that, Micheal Sheen(and other celebrities, I'm sure. I just haven't seen them specifically) posted this tweet down below:
It reads: "On a day where those who have wished the same things and been punished for it my thoughts are with the Israeli hostages and their families and hoping for their safe release and with all the Palestine families in Gaza and hoping for an immediate ceasefire." (End quote).
While I am aware that his wording is not the best, and neutrality on the situation is not what we're looking for(and also, in a lot of cases, not possible), especially with people who have influence, I have a feeling that a lot of people are not putting these tweets in context.
This was posted five months ago. When everyone was still rushing to catch up with what we've been missing for the last 75+ years. That's a lot of information for anyone to digest. Much less being able to filter through all the Propaganda that was thrown together at that point.
Nobody is immune to propaganda. Especially when it is provided to us as fact. Celebrities are no different.
Now this is not to say "🥺🥺🥺 leave my little UwU soft boy alone you meanies🥺" he's a grown man. He can take care of himself. I don't care.
But I AM saying that when we see celebrities or influencers or creators or whoever saying something online about certain topics that are important to us(like the current g3nocide happening in G🍉za) that we need to put on our critical thinking skills cap and assign context and actually look into it ourselves instead of taking random people's word for it.
I had to Google this myself, in fact. Because I was seeing a couple out of place comments that didn't make sense to me.
However. When I did.
The answer was right there. From the man himself.
Please guys.
Let's not burn bridges and ruin a whole man's career based off one tweet 5 months ago that was worded a little weird.
We've got a lot more things to be worried about than that.