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Husband of CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Calls CNN Host Soledad O'Brien 'Anti-Semitic'

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moderatelyradicalliberal3/14/2012 6:56:33 pm PDT

re: #111 goddamnedfrank

It’s almost like Bell chose not to turn Jews into a simplistic caricature, neither of context free self sacrifice nor of completely craven self interest, but instead chose to represent them as a complex people whose motivations could not be reduced into a single blanket stereotype.

Again, I think the root of the problem is an antipathy towards ambiguity. The attempt to contextualize the Jewish response in anything resembling complex, somewhat realistic terms is only problematic if one thinks that portraying Jews as normal people partially concerned by an understandable thing like their own status is demeaning.

I think two points are important.

1) Jews were talked about in Space Traders because the parallel to the Holocaust was obvious. The premise of black people being shipped off to an unknown place was a combination of slavery (ships) and being rounded off to be sent away (the Nazi’s rounding up Jews) in order to “improve” society. The complex reaction was based on an understanding of the parallel, but also the fear that once blacks were gone, who would be next? Once the most feared and maligned group of people were removed from American society, who would replace them because somebody would. Who would the haters start hating next? Jews, given their history would be contenders. At least that’s how I took it when I read the story when I was 15.

2) Most black people do not make distinctions between white ethnic groups. We really don’t. A black person who is truly anti-semitic doesn’t like any white people. See Louis Farrakhan.

Or I’ll just let Chris Rock say it

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