And the FBI was assigned to follow the film team on reports of a “vaguely middle-eastern man with a bear in an ice-crem truck”, which has to be the funniest report xD

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    Idk, I think it’s very different since that was many years ago and he did it for a joke in a movie.

    That wasn’t a serious attempt to arrest someone or whatever.

    I don’t think it’s anywhere close to entrapment.

    It might be argued that the joke was bad or something, but it wasn’t entrapment or his fault that antisemitism is ramping up.

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      Well I’m not arguing that what he did should be illegal, just that I consider it bad taste.

      It’s like if I went and did a standup routine consisting of Holocaust jokes and then a couple of years later complained about a rise in antisemitism.

      If he was serious, he should at least publicly acknowledge that he DID contribute to the issue and formally distance himself from his old work. Otherwise, it just seems rather disingenuous.

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            I have responded enough already, you don’t want to be convinced and you are entrenched in your views that a Jewish guy is anti-semitic, and, as a comedian, needs to repent for poking fun at racists in the way that he did and nothing else could possibly be correct.

            “If he was serious” about what? It’s of no interest to pick holes in your already Leedammer-esque ‘arguments’.