As firefighters, first responders and more work hard to fight the wildfires raging across California, celebrities are getting involved with relief efforts, including actor Sean Penn and his relief organization CORE.
But during a recent interview Penn had with Anderson Cooper on CNN, the 64-year-old made a controversial comparison between the fires and another ongoing humanitarian crisis that earned backlash from people.
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During the conversation between Penn and Cooper, the two men discussed the fires and how devastating they have been, leading Penn to draw a comparison to the war in Gaza.
"It’s sort of, you know, it’s Gaza West up there," he said. "We know that there are going to be wildfires in this area… so people choose to live in this area. But for the people living in, in particular, Pacific Palisades and Altadena and so on, this is so unexpected."
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Some people took issue with Penn comparing the fires with the situation in Gaza, with one sharing their opinion in the comments on Cooper's clip, saying, "What a ridiculous comparison. One is war zone due to Hamas’ genocidal massacre of Israeli citizens. The other is a natural disaster made worse by inept politicians."
Another person who criticized the comment wrote on X, "Turn on CNN Sean Penn: Palisades is Gaza West. Immediately Turn off CNN. WTF. Who lets these people speak?"
"Sean Penn comparing Los Angeles wildfire to Gaza. It's awful what's happened in L.A but it's not comparable to a war zone and the atrocities seen in Gaza," someone else said about the comparison.
Throughout the rest of Penn's conversation with Cooper, he talked about how he is helping with relief efforts and his thoughts on the destruction from the fires.
"When you have the kind of winds that we had, I don’t think mankind has come up with a solution to that. Mother Nature is bigger and more powerful than us. So many people that we all know and care about lost their homes," he said.
Penn and Ann Lee founded the relief organization CORE in reaction to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, but it has gone on to provide aid during many more natural disasters and other emergencies in the years since.
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