The Oppressed and the Vapid

I don't know who Rose McGowan is.  A review of her bio puts her pretty much in the Mindless Left wing Entertainment Set whose views and claimed personal attributes are whatever is currently on the far left, which means today she advocates for an animal, is "non binary", etc.  If it was 1920, and not 2020, she'd advocate for deporting Socialist to revolutionary Russia and for Prohibition.  If it was 1930 she'd be a Communist and a wet.

It's progressive, you know, to be on the "right side of history", even though that often isn't where history actually goes.

Anyhow, she apparently made a statement (I think on Twitter) apologizing for the American strikes in Iraq against an Iranian backed militia, and, more recently, the noted Iranian general Soleimani, apologizing to Iran and saying something about people moving there.

That was stupid.

Most Iranians aren't all that keen on Iranian militias or the Iranian quasi theocratic government.  The Iranian quasi theocratic government, for that matter, would find every single thing Rose McGowan says abhorrent, and pretty much take the necessary steps to shut her up, and cause her to put more clothing on.  There is, we might note, no sanctioned "Me Too" movement in Iran.  An apology in this context is pretty much like apologizing to Nazi Germany for Nazi agitators in pre Anschluss Austria. A person would have to be a real dumb ass to do it.

Naturally, this proved predictable responses on Twitter. . .sort of.

The most interesting ones I saw, however, were from young women.

Young Lebanese women.

Young Christian Lebanese women.

Some writing in English, others in French, they really wanted McGowan to go to Iran and stay there. they were also pretty much advocating for any level of violence necessary to deal with Iran and its militias, and they knew just what that meant.  They were glad to see Soleimani dead.

It's interesting how the vapid set doesn't exist where backs are up against the wall.

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Update:

We had an error in this thread.  McGowan didn't say anything about going to Iran, and she's since qualified and somewhat apologized for her earlier comments.  We noted that in another thread put up today, here:

Indeed, probably the most amusing freak out was that of Rose McGowan. She's an actress, and therefore is part of the vapid set, who posted a gif of an Iranian flag with a sunny and a smiling bear, or something, on it, with this text:

Deaar #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52% of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani

That's really stupid.

That it was stupid became pretty obvious really quickly and she began to back-peddle enduing up with this:

Ok, so I freaked out because we may have any impending war. Sometimes it’s okay to freak out on those in power. It’s our right. That is what so many Brave soldiers have fought for. That is democracy. I do not want any more American soldiers killed. That’s it.

Oh horse sh**.  This was an example of vapidness blowing up on the commentator.  There's a lot of it around right now.  And its just not very smart.

Having said that, McGowan's comments are stupid and really show why the American habit of listening to actors or actresses on anything is likewise stupid.

It also shows, I think, why the young Lebanese women I noted acted with rage.  The Lebanese have put up with around three decades of a dedicated Iranian backed effort to destroy the Lebanese democracy and replace it with a Shiite theocracy.  I'd be made in their situation too.

And again it shows a difference in prospective. A bunch of American's running around panicking about being drafted and the like doesn't mean much if you've been under some species of siege for thirty years.