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John Mulaney Speaks Out After Wife Olivia Munn Gets Death Threats Over Ms. Rachel Comment
Given Ms. Rachel's outspoken advocacy for victims of the Gaza genocide, people assumed Munn's comments were a subtle dig at her work on the matter.
In an Instagram Story, Mulaney said the uproar escalated to death threats even after Ms. Rachel herself asked fans to direct their ire at People, not Munn.
Mulaney wrote:
“An innocent comment my wife Olivia Munn made about what children’s programs we like has somehow — unbelievably — been conflated with not caring about the deaths of children in Gaza."
" “Because of this, my wife and my two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMs."
"This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation... This kind of behavior is not activism."
In the since-deleted People article in question, Munn also said she dislikes Blue's Clues and other kids' programming, simply because she finds children's television grating and annoying. That seemed to have escaped the notice of the "activists" in question.
What seems to have initially sparked the outcry was a since-deleted post from Ms. Rachel herself highlighting the way People was focusing on Munn's comment rather than her work in Gaza itself.
In that post, she explicitly laid the blame at the feet of People, not Munn, a sentiment she reiterated in a more recent post asking her fans to leave Munn and Mulaney alone.
Many online have praised Mulaney's response, especially because incidents like this give fodder to those who have consistently smeared Gaza advocates as unhinged.
"'This kind of behaviour isn’t activism' feels crucial. Streamline your efforts into something useful, like contacting your local politicians or donating or sharing information.:"
"I think people just want someone to cancel and hate and hide under the guise of caring about what’s going on in the world." —Dismal_Answer_2761
"they're sending threats to children to show... they care about children?" —Classic-Carpet7609
"It's extremely clear she's saying that she doesn't like to watch little kid's shows because they're not entertaining or interesting to adults... Munn is obviously not saying anything about Ms. Rachel's (good, cool) advocacy for Gaza, but she's also not even saying anything very negative about Ms. Rachel in general!"
"Are, we, like OK? As a species?" —ThatSpencerGuy
The answer to that question is no, we are not—and the fact that an entire mob of people ended up sending death threats to kids over a controversy they invented themselves due to their own lack of media literacy and refusal to read beyond a headline is the proof.
Meanwhile, how many more kids in Gaza died while these people were spending their time and energy screaming at Olivia Munn on Instagram?
Florida MAGA Voter Tears Up After ICE Detains A Third Of His Workers—And Now He Can't Find New Ones
Six of Scardina's roofers—all from Nicaragua—failed to show up at a job. That's one third of his company's workforce.
When their vehicle was found by the side of the road, their families discovered the men—almost all of whom are in the United States on work permits—were abducted by the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It's a story that keeps repeating wherever ICE has taken up operations.
Scardina told local NBC News affiliate NBC6 that he agrees with most of what Trump does, but:
"It's going to be really hard to replace those guys. We're not able in Key West to just replace people as easily as, say, a big city, very limited people to pull from, and then you would have to train them, and that takes sometimes years."
Becoming emotional, Scardina added:
"Well, you know, you get to know these guys, you become their friends, just not an employer, but a friend, and you see what happens to their family. It's… It's quite a shock."
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Then Scardina repeated the same sentiment as many owners of restaurants, construction companies, landscaping companies, and hospitality industry employers that voted for Trump back in November.
Scardina said he bought Trump's claim Homeland Security and ICE were going to deport criminals, but he now thinks ICE is just "trying to meet quotas."
He said:
"What happened here? This situation is just totally, just blatantly, not at all what they said it was."
"It's not just happening to me. I mean, it's happening across the board to several contractors. I know they're all being hit by this hard. I know of one landscaper that lost nine or 10 of his whole crew he had and he's just totally out of business all of a sudden, just like that."
You can see the news report here:
Regilucia Smith, the men's attorney, told NBC6:
"They are legally here. They have an authorization to stay."
Smith said all but one of the workers had all of their paperwork in order and had pending asylum cases.
"Valid work permit, not even close to be expired… and again, no criminal record, not here, not in Nicaragua."
While people were outraged over more extrajudicial activity by HHS Secretary Kristi Noem's department and its agents, they were less than sympathetic for Vincent Scardina and anyone who enabled the Trump administration.
Company employee Virgil Scardina—whose possible familial relationship to Vincent is undisclosed in the news reports—was angered by the injustice.
Virgil Scardina told NBC6:
"It's mind-blowing. It's just not right. It just isn't right."
"It was pretty obvious from the beginning that they were pulled over simply because they were six Latino men in a work truck."
"It’s been a lot of tears. It's been an incredible amount of sadness, and we still just can't figure out why."
Mindful of the company's concerns, Virgil Scardina stated that wasn't the worst part of the situation.
"Our business is struggling. You know, make no mistake. This has the potential to cause us some significant problems. But I still get to go home and give my child a hug at night. These guys do not, and they don't deserve that."
"It's incredibly fearful, not just for people who are of Latino descent that might get targeted, but also for small business owners, also for the local community, and ultimately, I just have to ask myself, who wins in this scenario?"
A no win situation, indeed—unless the end goal of this Project 2025 initiative is making America White(r) again.
