Posted on 01/09/2023 12:52:54 PM PST by Red Badger
Louisiana’s Krewe of Endymion rescinded its offer to have Mel Gibson be the co-grand marshal of its 2023 Mardi Gras parade.
Endymion President Dan Kelly announced Sunday that the organization's invitation to Gibson, whose past well-publicized antisemitic remarks and other scandals have plagued his career, had sparked threats that were of "great concern."
"The Krewe of Endymion has received significant feedback about our grand marshal announcement yesterday evening," Kelly wrote, according to NOLA.com. "Some of this commentary included threats that cause us great concern."
Kelly added that it was "in the best interest of the safety of our riders, special guests, and everyone that welcomes us on the streets" that Gibson not ride as a co-grand marshal for Endymion, which is one of the largest, most well-known parades to roll through New Orleans during Mardi Gras weekend.
The controversy began Saturday when Endymion announced on social media that Gibson would lead the Feb. 18 parade alongside Tulane University head football coach Willie Fritz.
By Sunday, however, the post announcing Gibson's participation had been deleted and hours later the statement was released explaining the withdrawal of Gibson's invitation.
The decision did little to appease various Jewish organizations which questioned why Gibson had been invited in the first place. In a joint statement, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, the Greater New Orleans Rabbinic Council and the Anti-Defamation League slammed the move as "completely insulting and shortsighted."
"There is still a great deal of pain associated with his name and deep wounds in the Jewish community," said Lindsay Baach Friedmann, the ADL's regional director.
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Cancelled. Get that faggity ass Lemon guy. He’ll bring ‘em in
Well publicized=facts? Since I really don’t know......
No actual religious Jews are calling for this. The ADL and Federation are secular leftist groups.
Cancel culture ......................
Gibson has never made a secret of his flaws.
They’re still pissed about his Jesus movie.
Being Jewish myself I like Mel Gibson especially for the movie The Passion and the sequel.
Jane Goodall explained it years ago, after studying Chimpanzees in the wild.
The Chimp that made the most noise, by screaming and rattling bushes was made the leader..............
Mel ought to go anyway. someone will give him a ride. all true patriots love the guy.
It drives me crazy that a small number of lefties exhibiting phoney outrage can leverage that into fearful action where they have no business getting involved.
No offense but N’awlins is a urine soaked puke smelling, disgusting sewer posing as a city. Nope. Never again. Six times and six horrible experiences. I only went because they were company events where my job required I be there. From the 80’s to two years ago its still the same.
I always thought Danny Glover was a bad influence on MG back when he was younger.
I hear glover is a rabid antisemite.
I like Mel. I’m a fan of his films and appreciate his strong support for the Catholicism’s Latin Mass subculture. With that said, considering Mel’s previous issues with alcohol, I’m kind of wondering why someone had the bright idea of enlisting him to party it up at Mardi Gras in the first place.
That's thanks to your state run media using wokeism as bread and circus to keep you numb.
Isn’t Mardi Gras essentially a Catholic celebration?...................
Bugger off!
As hedonistic as they’ve made Mardi Gras to me it’d be an insult to be the grand poo pah of it.
He’s a Communist, Jim......................
They might enjoy that!.......................
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