Amy Schumer, once comedy’s newest ingenue, thanks to other people’s jokes,(allegedly) has now found herself at the center stage of a new controversy and we are all in the audience watching as the meltdown commences.
Amy, a proud Jewish woman whose father was born Jewish and whose mother eventually converted, is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman concerned with the displacement and the genocide of her people in the Middle East, not the Arabs, no other white people who are indigenous to the Middle East.
Amy has been using social media as an outlet for her erratic behavior, including reposting a video by Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., where, in all fairness, he does support the establishment of Israel but more so, the video is about the contribution of Jewish people to the Civil Rights movement. On the use of this clip, Bernice A. King, Dr. King’s daughter, was not too pleased when she saw her father’s likeness usurped in order to peddle the agenda that somehow children are okay to murder, that somehow genocide is excusable, as long as it’s not Israeli/white children. I don’t know; this is just a hunch, but I am pretty sure Dr. King would have called for a ceasefire. He was kind of known for his stance against non-violence. It is also important to take the time period into context in which this was said. Dr. King made these statements in 1968, two weeks before his death.
The holocaust was much closer in time period to his death (he and Anne Frank were born in the same year) than the current state of world affairs is. Israel had only been established for 21 years when the video was made. Was Israel even old enough to drink at that point? Additionally, I’m not so sure one of the most famous victims of gun violence would hypothetically be so eager to support bombing hospitals and refugee camps.
Alongside Amy’s tweets is her incessant need to center herself in the suffering of others and possibly the initiation of World War III; in one of her Instagram posts about the conflict between Israel and Palestine, she refers to herself as the most successful female comedian of all time.
That’s crazy. What are her metrics?
It can’t be her box office hits or her awards because Whoopi Goldberg would like to have a word with someone who doesn’t have an EGOT but does have a chip on her shoulder. But again, what in the hell does that have to do with Israel flattening Gaza?! Don’t worry, she ended that same post with, “you hate Jews.”
Schumer, who famously pinned the joke, “I used to date Hispanic guys but now I prefer consensual,” has a lot of nerve admonishing the world on its policies of right and wrong or directing traffic to what is or is not racism/antisemitism. Calling for a ceasefire is not antisemitic, though she writes on her page, “[w]hy do you call for a cease fire [sic] instead for Hamas to surrender? While hostages aren’t returned, while rockets from Hamas fall..” It is a delusional and cruel thing to think that a ceasefire is a bad thing, that somehow killing civilians and flattening hospitals with children inside because there are reports that Hamas is using the hospitals as a base, is acceptable. She has yet to condemn those actions. According to the United Nations, that constitutes a war crime.
A celebrity giving their opinion is not a new phenomenon, but neither is a celebrity having a sh-tty opinion. From so many of her posts, Amy makes it seem as if she is Israel—as if the attacks are on her. Going so far as to usurp Dr. King’s likeness for her own agenda, especially when the only other times she has talked about racism is when she’s defending some sh-tty racist thing that she said. Amy Schumer took her birthright trip and has been tripping ever since.
Amy, you may be a comedian, but you are also a joke.
