Foxx’s message was in reference to a prior post, no longer found on his feed, which read, “They killed this dude named Jesus… What do you think they’ll do to you???!” He ended the post with the hashtags #fakefriends and #fakelove.

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    1 year ago

    Right, why would people assume he’s saying Jews killed Jesus when he did not, in fact, say anything about Jews and Jews did not kill Jesus? I could make the argument that people assuming the worst possible interpretation of Jamie Foxx’s words is, in itself, potentially offensive, but I’m not going to jump to conclusions about why they jumped to those conclusions. These types of non stories happen all the time on Twitter and get way more traction than they ever should. We shouldn’t even be talking about this right now lol

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        1 year ago

        Fake Friends, because Judas claimed to be Jesus’s friend, but betrayed him.

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      So you think he’s talking about the Romans or something? Makes zero sense.

      And your argument is, what, that the News turned Jesus in but didn’t directly kill him?

      It’s not a question of potential. The words are outright offensive, in fact, in reality. And they’re pure discrimination, too. Even if some group of people did something shady 2000 years ago, why does that have anything to do with people today? It doesn’t, unless…

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          Saying “they” vs “we” would make me think he means a group he isn’t a part of. Now what that group is could be debated, could even be as broad as white people or foreigners or friends/people close to you. Hard to know without context, but the fake friends hashtag does somewhat allude to being back stabbed by people close to you (though one could apply the term friends to any group too).

          I think his excuse makes sense, but I also understand how people could easily jump to assuming Jews (I’ll admit that would be my first gut reaction)

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        Read the article. Not every casual tweet has to have monumental importance.

        He wasn’t talking about Jewish people at all. His only fault here is failing to see how easily his poor choice of words would be misinterpreted by the internet outrage machine.