Paramount has come out swinging against a Friday screed from Mark Ruffalo, in which the award-winning actor accused moguls David and Larry Ellison of “powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world.”
A spokesperson for the David Ellison-run enterprise said the company is “troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn’t deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.”
My hyperbolic analogy is a swastika. Sure, the swastika had been in use for 10,000 years before Germany existed…but a company probably isn’t putting one on their letter head in 2026.
It’s as iconic for AI slop as It’s Not X, It’s Y
to an untrained eye who hasn’t read anything but internet posts, sure, but people use them in other places and that still carries on into internet prose sometimes.