This is why I feel so much safer at temple. It's not that Jewish people are better people, it's just that they don't say crap like this to me.
Yes, exactly. It's part of the reason why I far prefer to live in Korea, not because it's perfect here but because it's safe. Safe for me, that is, because I'm a member of the majority here. Also many fewer guns in the civilian world.
LOL, A World Without Princes not working out? It has such a promising title, too.
I finished Dave at Night and quite liked it. The ending was rather pat and happy, but it was happy in a way that made sense for the story. Definitely one of the better novels I read lately, and I've been reading some of the classics like The Age of Innocence and The Killer Angels. I feel rather silly for not realizing Carson had written Ella Enchanted, though I never read EE so I have that excuse. I'd also bought the audiobook version of her book Writing Magic, though I haven't listened to it yet.
A movie is only allowed to be full of black characters if it's about slavery (and even then) or "for blacks only" and a movie is only allowed to be about Jewish characters if it's a comedy, a Holocaust movie, or Fiddler on the Roof.
It occurs to me that there are many atrocity movies but not enough sub-atrocity movies about bigotry, i.e. movies dealing with everyday racism, anti-semitism etc. The cynical part of me wonders if that's because focusing on the worst of the worst excesses of human crimes--slavery, genocide and so on--allows majority audiences the comfort of knowing, "Hey, we're not that bad so we're all right." I have definitely seen this kind of "it's not racism unless it's slavery/lynching," "it's not anti-semitism if it's not genocide" arguments floating around the Web, so I think my speculation has some grounds. I'm pretty sure the anti-semites who say abhorrent things to you feel pretty damned good about themselves because they're totally not Nazis. They can hear Holocaust stories or watch a movie and gain assurance of their moral superiority compared to those people.
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Date: 2014-06-04 05:32 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly. It's part of the reason why I far prefer to live in Korea, not because it's perfect here but because it's safe. Safe for me, that is, because I'm a member of the majority here. Also many fewer guns in the civilian world.
LOL, A World Without Princes not working out? It has such a promising title, too.
I finished Dave at Night and quite liked it. The ending was rather pat and happy, but it was happy in a way that made sense for the story. Definitely one of the better novels I read lately, and I've been reading some of the classics like The Age of Innocence and The Killer Angels. I feel rather silly for not realizing Carson had written Ella Enchanted, though I never read EE so I have that excuse. I'd also bought the audiobook version of her book Writing Magic, though I haven't listened to it yet.
A movie is only allowed to be full of black characters if it's about slavery (and even then) or "for blacks only" and a movie is only allowed to be about Jewish characters if it's a comedy, a Holocaust movie, or Fiddler on the Roof.
It occurs to me that there are many atrocity movies but not enough sub-atrocity movies about bigotry, i.e. movies dealing with everyday racism, anti-semitism etc. The cynical part of me wonders if that's because focusing on the worst of the worst excesses of human crimes--slavery, genocide and so on--allows majority audiences the comfort of knowing, "Hey, we're not that bad so we're all right." I have definitely seen this kind of "it's not racism unless it's slavery/lynching," "it's not anti-semitism if it's not genocide" arguments floating around the Web, so I think my speculation has some grounds. I'm pretty sure the anti-semites who say abhorrent things to you feel pretty damned good about themselves because they're totally not Nazis. They can hear Holocaust stories or watch a movie and gain assurance of their moral superiority compared to those people.