Late last week I put up a post saying that there is an unjustified witch hunt going on for Mel Gibson. The man said something while hammered… something stupid and idiotic. But call me crazy… I was brought up to believe that until a person actually DOES something racist, then you should give him the benefit of the doubt.
Gibson hasn’t ever DONE anything anti-semetic. Nothing. No unfair hiring practices, never refusing to work with people or treat people any diferently than anyone else because of their race. Like I said… Call me crazy, but the society I believe in doesn’t condem someone who hasn’t actually DONE anything yet.
Well it looks like I’m not the only one who thinks so. Producer Dean Devlin, a Jewish man who worked on “The Patriot” with Mel Gibson has come out to defend the man. Hollywood.Com gives us this:
And Devlin, who worked with the star on The Patriot, is prepared to forgive the rant, branding alcohol the cause of the outburst. He says, “If Mel is an anti-Semite, then he spends a lot of time with us, which makes no sense.
“But he is an alcoholic, and while that makes no excuse for what he said, because there is no excuse, I believe it was the disease speaking, not the man.”
Now, as I’ve said before, I think Gibson should be in jail right now for drunk driving… 3-5 years as far as I’m concerned.
Who knows, maybe Mel Gibson is an Anti-Semite. That is POSSIBLE. But until the man DOES something to show it, acts in some racist way or actually discriminates against someone… then I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m not the thought police.
But damn… that is a crazy ass picture of Mel.
