Well, for those curious this is from Jim Carrey’s wikipedia but it’s also not nearly as bad as it looks. Only one of those things a real problem.
Wrongful death lawsuits
Two lawsuits but over the same death that had zero proof that Carrey was in anyway involved. He started dating a woman named Cathriona White in 2012. She got married in 2013 but they continued their relationship in an on-again-off-again style until her suicide in 2015. The first suit claimed that Carreys wealth and personal influence to get the medication that she killed herself with. There was no evidence that this had happened in any way whatsoever. There was evidence that she had issues with prescription medication before she met Carrey though. The second wrongful death lawsuit was over the same death but this time from the mother of the deceased and for something completely different. This time it was claims that Carrey was riddled with STDs and had lied about it and hid the results from White. Both lawsuits were completely dismissed with no legal proceedings ever going further than those suits. No settlements were made. Carrey was a pallbearer at Whites funeral.
Vaccine skepticism
This is the one as bad as it looks. He wrote an article in 2009 that were doubting Vaccines and in 2015 he said the California governor was a “corporate fascist” who was “poisoning” children by enacting the vaccination requirements. He didn’t say anything about the COVID vaccines that I can find elsewhere. Dude was an idiot but it’s been 10 years and with him not talking too much about it I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. In 2009 he was dating Jenna McCarthy, a known anti-vax lunatic. Brainwashing doesn’t take forever to get rid of. If he’s still anti-vax then yeah, fuck him, but after 10 years without a peep during the biggest vaccine blitz known to man? I’m willing to hesitantly give him the benefit of the doubt. Am surprised no one pressed him on it though.
Political and Spiritual views
He believes in that ‘The Secret’ type nonsense “The Law of Attraction”. Said he visualized having a $10 million cheque and putting it in his pocket and then 7 years later he got a $10 million cheque for Dumb and Dumber. Not really problematic so much as bizarre/unrealistic. He’s also an outspoken socialist. The big part of that section is him talking about sparking an “international incident” because he was making political cartoons of Orange Hitler and then Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. He made some cartoon that criticized fascism by depicting Mussolinis death. This pissed off Mussolinis granddaughter on twitter and she threw a hissyfit.
Artwork and NFTs
He’s a painter and has been for a while. The section mostly focuses on that. There is a single line about NFTs, it being: “In April 2022, Carrey announced that he had minted his first art NFT via the NFT platform SuperRare. The NFT is based on a painting entitled Sunshower, and is accompanied by original voiceover.” Apparently he also released a couple NFTs under a different name before releasing that public one. That is the entirety of his involvement within the NFT community. Also something stupid he did but given it isn’t an ongoing thing he didn’t push relentlessly it doesn’t seem like that big a deal either.
HOWEVER
The title is totally fucking true. Live your life like a good person, don’t be a fuckwit, listen to experts, and don’t jump on trends immediately without doing research. Might be a tiny problem or a big problem but you will have problems if you go down an alternate path. Problems you will then have openly deserved.
He made some cartoon that criticized fascism by depicting Mussolinis death. This pissed off Mussolinis granddaughter on twitter and she threw a hissyfit
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Can someone send this emoji to Mussolini’s granddaughter for me?
Thanks for the breakdown chief!
I needed a distraction from reality and that filled out like 10 minutes. More than happy to help.
He believes in that ‘The Secret’ type nonsense “The Law of Attraction”.
Villifying someone’s spiritual beleifs by calling them “nonsense” when they are in no way related to you at all isn’t very nice
And falsely associating spiritual beleifs as coming from / originating from one website is misinforming and further adds to the vilification as I can see that implied by your comment based on context
I’m tired of people attacking spiritual beleifs that have nothing to do with them and ridiculing and harassing people online for having spiritual beleifs
And I’m also sick and tired of people who falsely associate those with spiritual beliefs with those anti vax idiots
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It is categorically nonsense. It has no basis in science, reality or even common sense.
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I never stated that it came from one website. I said “The Secret” type. You missed an entire word. That would be a fair way to describe it as The Secret is the most common version of this nonsense.
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I will ridicule anything that ultimately blames you for anything negative in your life. That’s the thing about this utter bullshit that people don’t seem to realize. There is a seriously dangerous flipside to believing that all the good in your life comes from manifestation. It means that all of the negative in your life is either you manifesting it as well or something you deserve for just not trying hard enough. That is disgusting and is not worthy of any respect in my opinion. Any “belief” that victim blames is something that is immediately worthless in my eyes. Not to mention the fact that it completely devalues hardwork and dedication by saying if you just visualize and believe it hard enough that it’ll magically appear in your life. Like I said. Nonsense.
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People who believe in this “law of attraction” and people who believe that vaccines cause autism both lack critical thinking skills. It’s completely unsurprising that they’re linked or that there’s a pretty frequent overlap.
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honestly? the fact that he dabbled in a few things, found out he was wrong, and then either changed his mind or at least shut the fuck up about it makes me like him more. idk how he ended up being an antigun socialist but maybe someone can talk to him about that too
Who’s this article about?
Awww crap I guess I forgot to comment somehow. As the other commenter says, it’s from Jim Carrey’s bio. I don’t think he’s a thoroughly bad person necessarily, but the whole vaccine scepticism is a huge negative. And I do have a bee in the bonnet about rich people who align with “socialism” and do NFTs, I mean, what the fuck are you doing, just stop, think about what you’re doing dammit.
The version of NFT he did isn’t really bad imo. It’s not the algorithmically generated monkey pics or stolen art from artists to scam people out of money. People did buy into the NFT spiel that it’ll democratize the art world and get artists paid fairly for their art by giving them a percent of the value whenever their art gets resold instead of putting money in the pockets of the rich few who used art as a money laundering scheme. It then became exactly that in a different way.
the whole history of mainstreaming transphobia is a negative too.
It doesn’t appear to be there anymore, but I remember reading Dave Grohl’s wikipedia page and there was a controversy section and it just talked about the DUI he got on a scooter.
What a monster.
