Hollywood can officially add Alyssa Milano to the list of celebrity activists with mask critics in their rhetorical crosshairs.
Ms. Milano took a page out of Tom Hanks’ and George Clooney’s books by blasting critics of mask mandates to her 3.7 million followers.
“Anti-maskers are the same people who think they need an AR-15 for ’protection’. LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: A MASK WILL PROTECT YOU *MORE* THAN AN AR-15 WILL,” the “Me Too” and gun-control advocate tweeted Monday.
The former “Charmed” actress also took the additional step of shielding herself from negative feedback by only allowing people she follows (roughly 6,000) to reply.
Responses, many aggregated by the website Twitchy, were not in short supply.
Some include:
- “Many straw men were murdered by this tweet.”
- “N-95s don’t protect women from rape. AR-15s do.”
- “Surely I’m not the only person in America who believes wearing a mask helps reduce virus spread and firearms protect from those who wish you harm.”
“When someone tried breaking into my house in the Philly burbs the cops told me to buy a gun,” added independent journalist Tim Pool. I have no issue wearing a mask, at all. I also have many guns. Alyssa is a bad person.”
Messrs. Clooney and Hanks steered clear of the gun angle in their disparagement of mask critics; instead, they focused on ad hominem attacks.
“This thought where everybody is like, ’Well it’s my freedom.’ It’s like, that’s not how this sh— works, dumb—,” Mr. Clooney said December 16.
“Don’t be a p—y, get on with it, do your part,” Mr. Hanks said during a People magazine interview in July.
Anti-maskers are the same people who think they need an AR-15 for “protection”.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) December 29, 2020
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: A MASK WILL PROTECT YOU *MORE* THAN AN AR-15 WILL.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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