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What did Mel Gibson say exactly?

RASCIST
During Mel Gibson's arrest for drunk driving he uttered anti-semitic remarks - "Fucking Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the police officer, "Are you a Jew?"

SEXIST: ANTI-WOMEN
The media is going ballistic about the anti-semitism, but rarely is it reported that he uttered sexist anti-women remarks to a police officer, calling her 'sugar tits', during the same incident.

He apologised after the drunken incident and included, I imagine, his sexist remarks, "I am deeply ashamed of everything I said."

SEXIST: ANTI-BIRTH CONTROL
"God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them." In my opinion, if he had said, "Women shouldn't work, they should stay home and look after broods of children, be at the beck and call of children all day, become brain dead, accept the harried woman she sees in the mirror, and give her husband an excuse to screw other women because her vagina is ripped apart, her belly is scarred, she is exhausted. And then when hubby gets home, be controlled by his paycheck," I guess people might have reacted differently. I guess the media doesn't translate very well.

HOMOPHOBIC
Only one writer mentioned a previous incident where Gibson uttered anti-gay remarks - "They take it up the ass," and "This is only for taking a shit". But here he is satisfied that he is allowed to have this opinion, and yes, he is allowed, what I am amazed by is that he feels he is allowed to have this opinion with impunity: "I don't think there's an apology necessary, and I'm certainly not giving one."
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