Posted on 08/11/2019 11:40:15 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The Rise Up October rally...featured Tarantino as a speaker. The event aimed to call attention to police brutality and its victims. While there, Tarantino said the following:
"Im a human being with a conscience. And when I see murder I cannot stand by. And I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers."
The quote first received major exposure via the New York Post on the day of the protest. The next day, Patrick J. Lynch, president of New York's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, a labor union representing police, called for a boycott of Tarantino's films, including the upcoming Western The Hateful Eight, which comes out Christmas Day. In a statement (which you can read in full at Entertainment Weekly), Lynch said:
"Its no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too. The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls "murderers" arent living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies theyre risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem."
From there, numerous other police groups including, most notably, the largest union for Hollywood's own Los Angeles Police Department joined the boycott.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
unless the violence is happening to you
That’s funny.
What’s a a white wife-beater?
I’ve also seen “wife-beater” used to reference 24 ounce cans of beer.
You know, gay guys don’t have to be AH’s (no pun intended) but they have certainly gone off the rails.
There was one guy at work, nice guy (but frustrating to work with because he never followed through on stuff he started - I’ve noticed these people tend to be unreliable). Anyway, he was a nice guy, and made no bones about being queer. One day, he got up out of his cubicle, stood up and yelled, “I’M A FAGGOT!”. It was pretty funny actually.
They are not boycotting them. They just do not go because they are all garbage. Nothing I have seen that Tarantino produced is worth sitting through.
Well, this could go on forever. That’s funny. Great picture.
Yeah that seen with the Dixie Boys was so over the top it was laughable. Those boys never ever moved to Los Angeles. What you have instead are leftist criminals kidnapping people off the street every day in LA.
Look it up.
He seems like it.
My impression is he could have been good if he wasn’t so pompous and ersatz and not obsessed with hackdom and superficiality.
I’ll bite. Is this 2015 article pertinent to something going on right now?
Sometimes people do post old articles if it is relevant to a situation that is in the news now.
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