A reflection on Jaime Lee Curtis’s empathy and the backlash she faced in Hollywood.
In a rare moment of humanity and perhaps taking a cue from John Donne, who once said “No man is an island,” actress Jaime Lee Curtis expressed actual empathy in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. Appearing on one of the « WTF With Marc Maron », Curtis stated:
I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say. But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith. Even though I find what his ideas were abhorrent to me, I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever ‘connection to God’ means, that he felt it.
That such a sentiment could come from a denizen of the film industry should be considered nothing short of miraculous. Here was someone who leans left and who made their money in a decidedly left-wing industry, who was able to see through the propaganda and fury of her own party. She may have actually felt a sense of remorse that “her people” had become so barbaric.
Alas, miracles are short-lived things, including the “Miracle of Jamie Lee Curtis’s Moment of Clarity.” Fox News notes that in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the actress recanted her initial statement
An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well — like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was simply talking about his faith in God. And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not.
Mistranslated? From what? The original Sentinelese? Koine Greek? She went on to say:
In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and, at the same time, reject the destruction of Gaza. You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, « I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way. »
Curtis told the magazine that she had received “threatening blowback” for daring to display sympathy for Kirk and his family. That is to be expected, and you can find no shortage of examples of Left-wing angst and intimidation on PJ Media and its sister sites.
