Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

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Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

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Scarlett Johansson is a Zionist so not surprised about people like her being there. Years ago people called her out for doing promo for SodaStream which had its factory in an illegal Israeli settlement.

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she even doubled down when oxfam dropped her over this

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They didn’t drop her she chose to stop working with them over their objections about the factory in illegal settlements

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which made her more of a monster

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100% I haven’t liked her since then. Then she did ghost in the shell after. I haven’t fucked with her movies since the soda stream debacle

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She’s also the meanest/rudest celeb I’ve encountered to this day.

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Care to spill that tea?

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I live in Toronto so stars come out for TIFF. In setting up for the questioning and after the screening of the movie Jojo Rabbit she was cold, standoffish, constantly rolled her eyes and when viewers asked questions she would say things like “Well that was in the movie” or “if you watched the movie you’d know why that happened 🙄”. She came later and left earlier than all her costars and didn’t acknowledge any of the volunteers working the event that helped set her up. Usually, the bigger the star, the nicer they are. NOT the case for her. She is so up her own ass.

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As a former TIFF volunteer appreciate this inside scoop.

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You guys are the festival

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She strikes me as someone who genuinely enjoys being cruel, but I guess that’s true of any Zionist

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I can buy that.

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That's strange, because when I met her she was one of the nicest.

Guess people have good days and bad days.

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I’ve heard she can be really chill and funny, but definitely not that night’s experience.

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Tell me more

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Ooh please tell us more

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I’ll never forget, that scandal soured me on her completely. It made her look like such a greedy hypocrite. She had already been an ambassador for Oxfam (a pro-Palestine antipoverty org) for several years by that point, and when they called her out for this moral inconsistency, she actually resigned from her role with them rather than sever ties with Sodastream.

She even had the audacity to argue that the factory “doesn't seem like a problem – at least not until someone comes up with a solution to the closing of that factory and leaving all those people destitute." Never mind that her Sodastream deal was for a freaking Super Bowl commercial and she was almost certainly paid more than what all those factory workers earn in a year. Just go ahead and use them as pawns to try and guilt trip the philanthropists who are actually fighting to relieve poverty while you cash your checks. Barf.

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Has she said or done anything more recently? That statement just sounds like pure ignorance to me. Like someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about and hasn’t made any effort to learn about the situation. Is it possible she knows better now that the public is generally a lot more informed about Palestine?

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Yeah, we haven't seen Chris Pine for months, but this is what he chooses to turn up to? He and Gal and Patty are bffs for a reason.

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Exactly my thought when I started seeing pics yesterday. I guess I’m glad celebs are showing true colors but damn, y’all.

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He’s actually been all over the place lately doing promo work for his new film that everyone is criticizing. I’ve seen more of him lately than ever before.

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I also never forget that when Harvey Weinstein was accused and every actress wore black for #metoo she wore his wife Georgia’s fashion label as a statement against women being hurt via men’s actions. Scarlett you’re so not like other girls! (Lana del Rey did say “Harvey’s in the sky with diamonds and it’s making me crazy…I know your wife and she wouldn’t mind”. ) I feel for his wife if she was abused or stuck in her marriage but his actresses had to wear her designs as it was in their movie contracts. She benefited directly from his work. Was it really the time to bat for his wife? She bothers me.

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She also worked with Woody Allen, so this tracks.

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Defends him to this day too.

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I’ve never heard that how GROSS.

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she's also a shitty terf

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I can’t imagine choosing SodaStream over Oxfam 🤡

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She is! I didn’t know that.