[Reactionary]

"The lack of understanding on the part of some, the easy pass they are willing to give Mel Gibson and his film, and the vitriol for those who criticize the film for any reason, have given me pause."

Ours is a critical culture, and the criticism concerning this movie have generally been that the movie is anti-Semitic, that it's too violent, that Gibson is retrograde, that Gobson is an evil man because of his father.

In other words, the usual egalitarian smears from the cultural Left. A valid critique is one thing, but I've yet to hear one. Meanwhile, Gibson's "unreleasable" and immoral film has made nearly 100 million dollars in four days.

[h.a. cherev]

I don't disagree with you. I have never criticized the movie because I haven't seen it. But I have questioned some of the statements of those who have....those who are so sure that no violence or bigotry will come from it. And all I asked was, how can you be so sure?

I haven't called Gibson an anti-Semite or bashed Christians. Yet what I've been accused of on these threads by people who then refuse to point out where I've done these things is just incredible. I guess that's my cross to bear (pun intended).

It's kind of funny in a way. People who think Jews are being too sensitive about the movie seem just as sensitive but in the opposite way.