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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bardot’s memory is also complicated by her controversial support of far-right politics in her home country and her five convictions of inciting racial hatred against Muslims.

The beliefs in question. Thanks for leaving it to the last sentence, Billboard, very helpful.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (A Scream in the Silence), Bardot contrasted her close gay friends with homosexuals who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through", and said some contemporary homosexuals behave like "fairground freaks". In her own defense, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: "Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants."

This reads more like a Boomer-tier "How dare the kids today keep being young while I continue to get older" gripe. Echoes a lot of the X Wave Feminist Lambasts X+1 Wave Feminist literature as well.

In the same book, Bardot also criticized racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics, and Islam. The book contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders. On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000. Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."

In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to Nicolas Sarkozy when he was minister of the interior. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits". The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000. The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offenses related to racial hatred.

This shit was significantly less forgivable. But also... it seems like her angry is tied back to her animal activism, which is a common refrain with Boomer Era liberal environmentalists and animal activists. The urge towards eco-fascism haunts these movements.

You can see her attitude crop up entirely outside the scope of Islam on a number of subsequent occasions.

During the 2008 United States presidential election, Bardot branded Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as "stupid" and a "disgrace to women". She criticized the former Alaskan governor for her stance on global warming and gun control. She was further offended by Palin's support for Arctic oil exploration and by her lack of consideration in protecting polar bears.

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In 2014, Bardot wrote an open letter demanding the ban in France of Jewish ritual slaughter shechita. In response, the European Jewish Congress released a statement saying "Bardot has once again shown her clear insensitivity for minority groups with the substance and style of her letter [...] She may well be concerned for the welfare of animals but her longstanding support for the far-right and for discrimination against minorities in France shows a constant disdain for human rights instead."

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In June 2021, Bardot was fined €5,000 by the Arras court for public insults against hunters and the president of the Fédération nationale des chasseurs (National Federation of Hunters) Willy Schraen. She had published a post at the end of 2019 on her foundation's website, calling hunters "sub-men" and "drunkards" and carriers of "genes of cruel barbarism inherited from our primitive ancestors", and which specifically insulted Schraen. At the time of the hearing, she had not removed the comments from the website.

Like, by the end of this, you mostly just get the sense that she's got a foul mouth and a very elevated sense of her own opinion.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

The notion that hunters are a social stratum protected from insults is titillating by its originality in the context of modern standards.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago

she's French, what else did we expect?

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago

French people have known for more than 30 years that Bardot was crazy. But it's good if people understand this now and stop praising her as some kind of god.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Five convictions for inciting hate against Muslims.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A question I had caught flak before for asking: Do people like Bardot, Rowling, Linehan, etc. were they all cuckoos before they got famous and people surrounding them ignored it or is there some kind of mental condition accentuated by their fame (and its side effects).

I mean, Linehan had always in his shows some penchant for men in women underwear, and Father Ted is a bit crass, but I don't think that his late rethoric matches the tone in any of his shows, it is more of the ranting of your average park lunatic.

[–] gid@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Linehan is difficult to gauge, because he's always worked with other people. I have the sense though that he's always been like this.