Can someone please explain how Mel Gibson got away with his career for as long as he did? I know that Hollywood continues to employ assholes — talent or not — but anti-Semites? According to Winona Ryder, she ran into him at a Hollywood party with her gay friend, and Gibson not only made a gay joke, but when he found out she was Jewish, he called Jews “oven dodgers.” Enough said.
Mel Gibson Called Jews Oven Dodgers — Winona Ryder Says So
Can someone please explain how Mel Gibson got away with his career for as long as he did? I know that Hollywood continues to employ assholes — talent or not — but anti-Semites? According to Winona Ryder, she ran into him at a Hollywood party with her gay friend, and Gibson not only made a gay joke, but when he found out she was Jewish, he called Jews “oven dodgers.” Enough said.
Anti-semite is a type of asshole. So are communists and Hollywood has its share of those. Its an equally delusional belief that communism in practice is any more gentle or just than fascism.
Either way, calling Jews oven-dodgers is terrible.
It’s also pretty creative in a drunken state — clearly it was a familiar
term — maybe he used to say it at family gatherings.