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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmanda Seyfried "not fucking apologizing" for Charlie Kirk comment
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/amanda-seyfried-says-m-not-230313607.html"Amanda Seyfried told Who What Wear on her press tour for The Testament of Ann Lee that she refuses to apologize for calling Charlie Kirk hateful after the Turning Point USA co-founder was shot and killed earlier this year.
Im not fucking apologizing for that, Seyfried said. I mean, for fucks sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and Im free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualizedwhich is what people do, of course.
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"I dont want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse isnt that what we should be having? Seyfried wrote in the posts caption.
Were forgetting the nuance of humanity, she went on to explain. I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirks murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?
jonstl08
(563 posts)For the life of me I cannot understand how people think Kirk was a Christian. I had to go noncontact with family members because they thought God was speaking through Kirk. And to think a good portion of this countries population thinks the same means we are tuly screwed.
PS. His widow is sure not acting like the grieving widow. Not very Christian of her.
ananda
(34,778 posts)even though, in practice, they are nothing even close to
Christian... more like following the OT Senex god who
was mean and hateful.
Wednesdays
(22,312 posts)Don't care very much about what he actually said.
ananda
(34,778 posts)My sister and I were talking about this a couple of days ago.
I was telling her that our Irish Catholic roots were truly
Christian.
Our ancestors truly followed the teachings of Christ and were
so good to others, not racist in any way, and strongly engaged
in Democratic politics.
My grandmother's first cousin, Robert Lippert, taught at a
Catholic university in St Paul for 34 years until around 1989,
and he risked his life and his job as an activist for civil rights
and peace for vulnerable people.
My mother was the same way. She ran the St Vincent de Paul
Society at her church for many years. She didn't believe in
poor shaming. Anyone who came in for help got it immediately,
no questions asked.
soldierant
(9,308 posts)there was a bumper sticker which read "Jesus called. He wants his church back."
Granted it's even worse now.
wolfie001
(7,492 posts)Dave Bowman
(7,045 posts)wolfie001
(7,492 posts)paleotn
(22,011 posts)Helps them sleep at night. Thats really all it is.
As for Kirk-ette, the grift continues. Thats all theyve ever been. Thieves, liars and cheats.
yardwork
(69,236 posts)That is a fact.
Bettie
(19,561 posts)someone was a hateful person and also true that they didn't deserve to be murdered.
Kirk did, however, revel in the murders of others.
Doesn't mean he deserved to die, but it does mean he wasn't a good person in any sense.
Blues Heron
(8,603 posts)Scott Alan Swaggerty
(294 posts)agingdem
(8,823 posts)and malevolent cretins do not become holy or forgivable in death, regardless how they died..
get the red out
(14,017 posts)I would imagine there were some less than flattering social media posts when Dick Cheney recently died. I haven't heard of any in particular, probably because MAGAs wouldn't care (and probably posted their own). At LEAST Cheney was a former VP, and not just some campus agitator.
Prairie Gates
(7,786 posts)Brava, Amanda Seyfried!
AverageOldGuy
(3,679 posts). . . this "Charlie Kirk" person?
And why should I care except for the fact that he was murdered, which should not happen to anyone (well, maybe except Stephen Millier).
Besides, from what I read, his grieving widow is doing quite well -- living off Charlie's grift while simulating sex (I guess she was simulating) with the Vice President on stage in front of an audience of hundreds.
Upthevibe
(10,159 posts)ColoringFool
(549 posts)What I mean, Vern?
travelingthrulife
(5,020 posts)ColoringFool
(549 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,020 posts)mitch96
(15,772 posts)mwmisses4289
(3,806 posts)Ah cain't deal with that!! 😱😱😱
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wolfie001
(7,492 posts)The rePUKES are hate-filled bullies and they never give up. In Britain, it's JK Rowling and Nigel Farage. F6ck them.
democrank
(12,491 posts)Our millionaire, mainstream media anchors will at some point refuse to participate in this Kirk/Hero crap, right? Theyll just start playing clips of Kirks disgusting racism and misogyny, right?Theyll make certain their viewers/listeners understand the truth that Kirk was anti-American to his core, right? Any day now ..any day ..
GiqueCee
(3,846 posts)... the majority of today's Republicans are carved out of the same turd as that malicious shitstain. I'm old enough to remember when it was possible to have Republican friends and just agree to disagree on certain policy issues. Those days are dead and gone forever. If you're not a textbook sociopath, you ain't welcome in the club.
NCDem47
(3,401 posts)Progressives are meant to cower, yet conservatives are free to say whatever they want whenever they want.
Its a two-way street folks.
IronLionZion
(51,093 posts)they know those quotes are hateful.
MontanaMama
(24,705 posts)with the truth.
GiqueCee
(3,846 posts)... made full use of the inherent elasticity of truth.
Traildogbob
(12,910 posts)And thats a whole damn lot. I can not wait to see her new movie with Sydney.
I just streamed an entire series with Amanda as a cop, and she was amazing in the role.
I love her fearlessness to stand up to that shit from the right, demanding apologies for factual words, while Trump et al blast bullshit about opposition every damn minute of every day. Kirk was a hate monger, pushing violence, that violence caught up to him from a far righter, being carried out now by his Grieving widow. For continued cash flow.
Amanda reps Bad ass women being bad ass. May save our asses.
Crowman2009
(3,485 posts)TPUSA, groypers, proud boys. They are all just the MAGA equivalent to the bloods and crips. And you know what they always say about folks bragging about violence in the 90's: live by the gun, die by the gun.
DBoon
(24,876 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(178,271 posts)Kirk was an asshole and there is no need to apologize for telling the truth about this asshole
A Hollywood star refused Wednesday to apologize for calling the late Charlie Kirk "hateful" in a defiant and profane new interview.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-12-11T11:20:18Z
https://www.rawstory.com/amanda-seyfried
Following the Sept. 10 shooting at a Utah university campus, the star of "The Housemaid" drew criticism after characterizing the slain conservative activist as "hateful" in an Instagram comment, according to Variety. A week later, the actress posted on Instagram to distance herself from the backlash, expressing her opposition to violence in a statement that simultaneously took issue with the Turning Point USA founder's political positions.....
She flatly refused to apologize for the characterization.
"I'm not f---ing apologizing for that. I mean, for f---'s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course," she said. "Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualizedwhich is what people do, of course."
Seyfried, the report noted, has politics at the top of her mind. She took a shot at President Donald Trump, too.
"It's always hard to see people who are tricky and harmful have successlike our gorgeous president, the best possible example of that," she said, sarcastically. "It's so weird to sit in a civilized restaurant. People are serving us food. You can't unpack it too much, or else you'll go f---ing insane. Like, how is the world still spinning?"
BH liberal
(129 posts)was as bad as Rush Limbaugh getting it. Both were demagogues, liars and bigots.
slightlv
(7,698 posts)NO ONE should ever get one of these ever again. After this mal-administration is finished and done, we need to retire these medals that have been abused and create new ones that actually MEAN something again.
johnnyfins
(3,699 posts)GiqueCee
(3,846 posts)Fullduplexxx
(8,618 posts)though nobody seems to care as much
WarGamer
(18,442 posts)She called him hateful, so what?
Not like she said she was happy about what happened.
DrMJG10
(64 posts)and racist person who could use a pretty and effective language to mask his true self. Many have tried to canonize him, as apposed to assigning him to the circle of hell he earned!
Orrex
(66,930 posts)to cash her residual checks and donations from the late, not-so-great Kirk's fuckhead acolytes.
Seyfried was 100% correct in her original comment, and her follow-up statement was very well constructed.
Swede
(39,097 posts)He was a racist SOB, that's a fact.
EnergizedLib
(3,003 posts)When do MAGAts ever apologize for anything?
kimbutgar
(27,118 posts)
Iggo
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