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We just don’t learn, do we?

Stop putting celebrities on a pedestal.

This bullshit celebrity hero worship has to stop. Fran was funny (and quite fetching) on The Nanny. What she is doing during the strike is great and all, but she is also anti-vaxx.

This is the problem that happens when our society puts these celebrities on a higher level than everyone else. Appreciate the work they have done on and off screen, but realize that they are just human and in the case of Fran, she is a little loopy when it comes to vaccine issues. She’s not someone we should look up to. None of these celebrities are. Look up to your dad or a fireman or that really good social studies teacher you had in 6th grade.

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thal3s@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Stop expecting perfection.

Nobody is perfect. MLK had affairs, the founding fathers owned slaves, Churchill was racist AF, etc.

She’s doing a great job now and we can educate her the same way we turned Obama from anti-gay marriage.

We should judge people OVERALL not on stuff like being anti-vax (which to be clear is dumb).

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- Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t expect perfection…? Being anti-vax is a big deal to me. That’s not a harmless ideology. It’s moronic and anti-science. This isn’t just some little thing I disagree with it’s, in my opinion, a huge moral and intellectual failure. I think it’s completely fair that this gets brought up because it’s directly relevant.
  
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  - BigJim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not to split hairs but she is actually against vaccine mandates, not against vaccines itself. She is vaccinated against covid-19.
    
    Personally I disagree with her and support mandates, but there is a considerable difference between anti-vax and anti-mandates.
    
    Source: variety.com/…/fran-drescher-sag-aftra-contract-ta…
    
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    Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I wish we lived in a world where we could count on people to just do the right thing but we don’t. On issues that put everyone at risk I unfortunately have to stand on the side of mandates until people learn how to act. Personally I’d still rather that they just get naturally excluded from society but we’re all too split for that and too many people have to needlessly die in the meantime.
    
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- ShakyPerception@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No!
  
  If even ONE thought in her head disagrees with MY world view then she is useless and NEEDS to be destroyed!
  
  /s
  
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  - SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is where leftists get the reputation for forming circular firing squads.
    
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    ShakyPerception@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I always think of this farside
    
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    Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yet somehow you guys are always the first to play the victim even to something that’s still theoretical. Like your comment here. Amazing example.
    
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- Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Stop expecting perfection.
  
  That is a great way of saying it.
  
  If you look at some of the biggest figures of our past in world history, the vast majority of them had some kind of vice or did some kind of thing or participated in some kind of event that would have gotten them cancelled in today’s world. It is ridiculous to what standards we hold people today, but in the end, they are just that - PEOPLE. Highly flawed individuals, just like you and I and everyone here. That doesn’t change the fact that they changed history (for better or worse) in one way or another. The problem comes when society then elevates them to some demi-god level and then everyone gets all flustered when that extra-marital affair or off-color joke or comments about some topic comes to light.
  
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  - Misconduct@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Talking about someone’s glaring flaws isn’t the same as expecting perfection. That’s an intillectually lazy way to see it. Wanting people to only sing the praises of anyone is actually expecting your version of perfection.
    
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- runblack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Now thats a very good opinion that I totally endorse.
  
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MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Stop putting celebrities on a pedestal.

Unless it’s me, right? 🥰

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- skullone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hello, it’s me, your pedestal. Please sit on my face.
  
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- ShakyPerception@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well of course, but that’s a given assumption
  
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- Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  …and you are??
  
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Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So what you’re saying is

All hail Sarah Silverman

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- I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh god, what did Sarah Silverman do?
  
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samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s just a shitpost. Why so serious?

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Gorbachof@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What if Fran Dresscher is my dad?

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- Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  She might teacher 6th grade social studies too! Shit. You found a loophole.
  
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MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I only look up to superheros like Karl Marx or Xi Jinping

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