The BIG news out of the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night was the mix-up which made it appear that La La Land had won Best Picture, when in fact Moonlight was the winner. But earlier in the evening, a statement from an Iranian filmmaker wound up upsetting the delicate buttercup right-wing douchenozzles in the viewing audience.
Asghar Farhadi won the Oscar for best foreign film for The Salesman, but he didn’t attend the award ceremony in Los Angeles to protest the Trump’s administration’s controversial Muslim ban, which has been put on indefinite hold by a federal judge. Instead, Farhadi sent a statement which was read on his behalf:
“Dividing the world into the us and our enemies categories creates fear. A deceitful justification for aggression and war. These wars prevent democracy and human rights in countries which have themselves been victims of aggression.”
Within minutes, conservatives crawled out from their safe spaces and began tweeting:
https://twitter.com/NoahPollak/status/836048363778781184
https://twitter.com/TEN_GOP/status/836052292621185024
We give an Iranian film maker an award & he writes us a lecture on our government. How about he go lecture his own Iranian leaders? #Oscars
— Lauren Cooley (@laurenacooley) February 27, 2017
Hahaha! A lecture on tolerance from an Iranian filmmaker!! Where they want to wipe Jews off the map and execute gays. #Oscars
— Claudine Abraham (@claudinelouise) February 27, 2017
Feel free to stay in Iran. I hear it's nice there. Good terror training grounds. #Oscars
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) February 27, 2017
who cares what the Iranian thinks. Go make your country great and stay there. quit trying to make USA, Iran.
— J (@14boisest8) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/RitaMed4/status/836095992134938624
Fortunately, saner voices were also heard in response to the bile that was pumped out by right wingers:
Note to conservative twitter: "The Iranian Guy" is regularly critical of a vicious regime. You all are regularly critical of Meryl Streep.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) February 27, 2017
Conservative twitter seems very upset than an Iranian man cares about democracy. I am very confused. #badlogic
— The Hug Party (@hugparty2016) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/SonyaBaker2/status/836066232730189825
If the Iranian government defines all of its citizens, then the Trump administration defines all of us. Hooray!
— The Hug Party (@hugparty2016) February 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/836051142744420353
Sad that you can't differentiate between Iranian government and a high-profile person from Iran.
— AnaGram (@AnaDenmark) February 27, 2017
Ever notice how lots of conservatives believe the First Amendment only applies to them? They’re the same ones who support Trump and think Russia has our best interests at heart.
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