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Talking negative about "Jews" is the definition of being anti-Semite - it is assigning negative qualities to people by their genetic makeup alone, and inferring various negative traits solely from that genetic makeup. That's textbook racism, and of course racist prejudice agains Jews specifically is called "anti-Semitism". Revulsion to racists is not specific to anti-Jewish ones - if you go around telling people in public that anybody who has French blood is stupid rude lazy bastard, or anybody with Persian blood is an arrogant greedy asshole, or anybody whose ancestors came from Portugal can not be trusted with anything, or that all Italians are mafiosi and should be jailed, or that Indians are dumb, only worth of working as grocery store clerks, and they speak funny - you won't be very popular. Except that there's actually not a lot of people now that do that - prejudices against Japanese and Germans mostly died after the end of WW2, prejudices against Italians and Irish mostly came out of favor too. Well, maybe about Indians some still around, and of course we have other new-ish ethnic groups to make fun of instead of the old and integrated ones. The fashion for Jew bashing is eternal though.
It's not weird - it's what Hollywood was made for. The whole reason why Hollywood came about was because Jews were excluded from the "respectable" movie industry - as well as many other "respectable" industries, so they went to the far west coast and made their own. And it worked for them. That's what Jews do, read the history - if you exclude them from something, they'd build the new thing, with blackjack and everything else, much better than the original one. Now historical ignoramuses see that and whine "why there's so many Jews in Hollywood?". The same reason why there's so many Protestants in the US - because that's where they went after being kicked out from the places they were initially. It's not some far-reaching arcana knowledge - Hollywood history is covered everywhere, random example: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-25-bk-4083-story.html (took me about 5 secs of research to find this secret knowledge). It's about as "weird" as CEO of Toyota being Japanese. Really, a lot of "weird" stuff becomes much less weird if you bother to research a little bit and educate yourself.
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As I already mentioned, and you failed to read or comprehend, the Jewish history of Hollywood is widely known and covered fact. Everybody knows who, when, why and there's nothing "weird" in it. If you failed to do research before launching into conspiracies, that's on you. If you want to make a fool of yourself, pretending widely known historical facts are part of some nefarious... I'm not even sure what, be my guest, but I certainly am not going to endorse it or make fool of myself following you.
What can't be debated? There's nothing to "debate" - it is a well known historical fact about Jewish roots of Hollywood studios, what is there to "debate"? What position would you defend in this "debate" - that history - which didn't happen 3000 years ago, it happened in 20th century and is widely covered and sourced - actually didn't happen but what? Illuminati created Hollywood? It's not a "debate", it's just acting stupid.
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