Gwyneth Paltrow: Celebs Facing
'Dehumanizing' Web Comments Almost Like Soldiers in War
by Tony Lee 28 May 2014, 11:23 AM PDT
To Gwyneth Paltrow,
facing a barrage of negative and anonymous Internet comments is almost akin to
dodging bullets or bombs in war.
The actress who recently "consciously
uncoupled" from her husband Chris Martin has often been accused of being
out of touch, and she may have outdone herself the day after Memorial Day when
speaking about how "our culture is trying to wrestle with the idea that
everybody has a voice, and how it’s unimportant and really important at the
same time."
“You come across [online comments] about
yourself and about your friends, and
it’s a very dehumanizing thing. It’s almost like how, in war, you go through
this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it,”
Paltrow said at a tech conference hosted by Re/Code. “My hope is, as we get out
of it, we’ll reach the next level of conscience.”
Paltrow said while the Internet provides
an "amazing" opportunity for people to "mature and learn,"
it "also allows us the opportunity to project outward our hatred, our
jealousy. It’s culturally acceptable to be an anonymous commenter. It’s
culturally acceptable to say, ‘I’m just going to take all of my internal pain
and externalize it anonymously.’”
“It’s taken me a long time to get to the
point where I can see these things and not take it as a personal affront and a
hurt. I see myself as a chalkboard or a whiteboard or a screen, and someone is
just putting up their own projection on it,” Paltrow added. “It has nothing to
do with me. They have an internal object, and they’re putting it on me. I kind
of look at it as, ‘Wow this is an interesting social experiment.’ You’re
talking about a blind stranger having feelings about you. It can only be
projection.”
She continued by reportedly saying, “We’re
in this very adolescent phase. It’s dangerous, [because] we lack the capacity
to say, ‘Why does this matter to me, and who am I in this?’ ‘Why am I having
opinions about Angelina Jolie’s operation?’ ‘What
is unhealed in me?’ ‘Why am I using the Internet to do this?’”
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth
Paltrow is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
a friend of Harvey Weinstein, and made the National Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Note: Harvey
Weinstein is a friend of Gwyneth Paltrow,
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and made the National Rifle Association enemies list,
listed in 2013.
Marian
Wright Edelman made the National Rifle Association
enemies list, listed in 2013, and is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation.
Geoffrey
Canada is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the president & CEO for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Kenneth
G. Langone is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
a trustee at the Harlem Children's Zone, and was a supporter
for Christopher J. Christie’s 2012
presidential bid.
Emma
Bloomberg was the senior planning officer for the Robin Hood
Foundation, and is Michael R. Bloomberg’s
daughter.
Michael
R. Bloomberg is Emma Bloomberg’s
father, a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal
Guns, the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety,
was a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation,
and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood
Foundation, and the Harlem Children's Zone.
George Soros
was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone,
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and is the founder of the Soros Fund
Management.
Robin
Hood Foundation raised money for the Hurricane Sandy
relief.
Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund is a relief organization for Hurricane Sandy.
Mary
Pat Christie is the chair for the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey
Relief Fund, and married to Christopher J. Christie.
Feds investigate Christie's use
of Sandy relief funds
Washington (CNN) -- Just days after
dismissing two top advisers for their roles in the George Washington
Bridge scandal, New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faced questions over the use of Superstorm Sandy
relief funds.
Christopher
J. Christie is married to Mary Pat Christie,
the New Jersey state government governor, and Kenneth G.
Langone & Stanley F. Druckenmiller
both supported him for his 2012 presidential bid.
Stanley
F. Druckenmiller supported Christopher J. Christie
in his 2012 presidential bid, the managing director for the Soros Fund Management, and is the chairman & benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
George Soros
is the founder of the Soros Fund Management,
was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone,
and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the Millennium Promise.
Gwyneth
Paltrow is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
a friend of Harvey Weinstein, and made the National Rifle Association enemies list, listed in 2013.
Harvey
Weinstein is a friend of Gwyneth Paltrow,
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and made the National Rifle Association enemies list,
listed in 2013.
Angelina
Jolie was a director at the Millennium Promise,
and is a co-founder for the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.
Jolie/Pitt
Foundation was a funder for Doctors Without Borders.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Doctors Without Borders.
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the Millennium Promise.
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