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"my life's so shit, it must be the Jews fault"

Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.[4][5] The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States,[6] and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)

The writer, all 4 producers, and the main star is Jewish. Of course they are interested in taking down the Catholic Church as revenge for the Inquisition.

I was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. I even remember the saint I chose during confirmation.

When was the last time you saw a film critical of Judaism? Not a movie critical of Israel but Judaism itself?

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great job !

I thought we were talking about mainstream Hollywood films, not obscure film festival guff.

Don't forget the Boston Globe editor who blew the lid on the Boston Catholic business was Jewish.

The Jews see Catholicism as a threat, so they have to delegitimise it at every opportunity.

Another quirk, you'll never get a Jewish actor to portray a Jewish character in a bad light.
Munich - nope
Madoff - nope
Schindlers List - They were all over that.
When it comes to Epstein, Weinstein, the Sacklers - no Jew will touch it.

When will see a film about the non-Jews who died in the holocaust - and there were millions of them, the Polish uprisings which dwarfed the Warsaw ghetto, the shabby treatment of Poland after the war, or even the Palestinian holocaust?
Probably never going to happen.

Dilbert wrote:

The Jews see Catholicism as a threat, so they have to delegitimise it at every opportunity.

It may come as a surprise to Larssen but I do read books from time to time. I have read arguments that fascism in the 20th century was basically the extreme of the Catholic right. Hitler himself while personally an atheist was raised Catholic and grew up in overwhelmingly Catholic Austria. If people are a product of their upbringing and environment then there was certainly a little bit of Catholicism in Nazi Germany. The Catholic church and fascism in Spain and Italy were deeply tied together. I would further accept that Christianity has antisemitism built into it and that has been downplayed by Christian leaders especially after World War 2. Jews also were the first targets of the Crusaders as they marched through Germany. The bad time the Jews had during the Spanish Inquisition is also legendary. 

I will unequivocally accept all of that. But people must also accept that Jews somewhat justifiably I guess see Christian organization whether Protestant or Catholic as a threat. They will do everything they can to disrupt or corrupt that organization despite Catholic social values such as universal healthcare and education being a great thing to get more prominence in places like the U.S.

Hollywood executives promote poor lifestyle choices and decisions to youth through television and music. "Live fast, die young", "party all the time", "hook up with everyone", etc. Of course many low intelligence and impressionable people try to emulate what they see on t.v. They end up overdosing to death outside of nightclubs, dropping out of high school, and ending up with a kid they can't take care of at 19. Other people become depressed when they can't afford or have all of the nice things television ads tell them they need. And don't even get me started on the promotion and normalization of violence in mass media.

Like the rest of big business, Hollywood and the media needs to be reformed or brought to heel if we want to solve the pressing social and cultural issues of the United States. Censorship is bad yadda yadda but between the free U.S. and closed China, only the free part has people dropping dead after injecting heroin into their veins like their favorite music star did.

I accept that poverty and lack of education is the bigger problem than mass media. As I mentioned before, access to healthcare and education is a Catholic social policy priority. I think it is ridiculous that people who want to tax and regulate the corporations to increase the safety net somehow feel that doing the same to media and entertainment companies is just too far.

The drugged up youth of west Virginia substance abuse disorders are more of a result of Nirvana, and past rock stars than hip hop.

People moving from experimenting with marijuana and party drugs to harder drugs like cocaine and heroin is definitely a result of party culture. Party culture is encouraged by all sorts of corporations including alcohol beverage sellers and musicians. Maybe we can stop allowing to advertise the same way we stopped tobacco companies?

That's all you took away from that?

I said that mass media makes all of the issues with poverty and education worse instead of helping.

The Catholic Church is the largest charitable group in the world.

The red states are overwhelmingly Protestant. The blue states are mostly Catholic. Compare Catholic NY, Massachusetts, California, and NJ to evangelical Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. The implications are clear.

European Protestant churches are tied to the states correct? Major difference from "anyone can open a church" American Protestantism.