Is this anti-semitism?

Jewish doulas are the best, AFAIK...

the best lawyers and judges that i know personally are Italian-Americans. that says more about the ethnic composition of where i live than anything else. (nb: i've also known some good Jewish lawyers and my first lawyer mentor was an excellent lawyer of Indian ancestry.)

that said, i am well aware of the "Jewish lawyers are the best!" meme. i once had a client who was visibly disappointed when i told her that i wasn't Jewish (as she originally assumed) and was in fact a Polack.

ouch. double whammy.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-people-hate-jews-2012-5

lol what kind of dunce is henry blodget

NOTE: The original photo in this post was of a couple of jovial Orthodox Jews, one of whom was wearing a traditional hat. Some readers found that needlessly provocative. One suggested I replace it with a picture of Natalie Portman, who, I guess, is Jewish (I don't know). So I have.

lol

if he is jewish I may have an answer

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/06/12/after_new_york_times_profile_sweden_s_twitter_account_goes_off_the_rails_with_jew_rant_.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

i don't think actually anti-semitic, but pretty bizarre. reminds me of a defense someone once gave of zizek's early writing about jewishness: "well, they don't have many jews in slovenia"

http://elitedaily.com/elite/2012/date-jewish-boy/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150880635816510_21998062_10150881150131510?#f82c4398

this elite daily site gd

idk anything about them. someone IM'd me the link and i thought, "hey, i bet i know a great ilx thread for this one"

what says 'the voice of generation y' more than a tastefully monochrome background image of parquet flooring?

WHAT IN THE

i actually think the "reasons to date the jewish boy" are marginally more anti-semitic than the "reasons not to date the jewish boy"

Want to take a sexy fiesta? Meet people of the sun and fun in our No. 10 horniest country. Mexicans kick off our list of boot-knocking people, and they start from an early age. In fact, in May of 2008 Mexico City’s government distributed 700,000 copies of sex-ed textbooks to deliver to the city’s student population, well aware that the kids would be doing the horizontal tango one way or another.

And when it comes to sex south of the border, there’s always a way. While prostitution is generally illegal in Mexico, it is legal in select cities like Tijuana, where sex worker zones are set up for your benefit.

Yeah I don't even see why I should bother taking apart that elite daily article. But the site in general, good god. It's like a readers' digest version of the WSJ with a visual theme stolen from NY Mag.

But when it comes to Jewish men, their appearances span across a spectrum ranging from James Dean look alikes, to the ultimate panty in James Franco.

that is an amazing sentence for quite a few reasons

what does being a "panty" even mean?

hahaha it didn't even hit me until now that Franco played James Dean in a film

James Franco is filled with panties, is how I read it

- the appearance of jewish ranges from those who look like james dean, to james franco (who looks like james dean)
- james franco is the ultimate panty

Right, and the other end of the spectrum of Jewish man looks from James Dean is the last panty one would find within James Franco.

oh you think they mean the ultimate panty is LITERALLY in james franco

i thought they meant it like, "the ultimate panty in [the form of] james franco"

I'm with s1ocki as to what it means, but i still don't get it. is it good to be a panty?

Jewish men range from looking like James Dean to looking like Jewish guys who look like James Dean

maybe she meant pansy? Or maybe party -- can a person be a party? I suppose so. Or perhaps she left off a word, and it was like "panty-dropper" or "panty-thief."

That makes sense in the context of Franco but why would that be one end of a spectrum, the other end of which is James Dean?

Maybe she meant Julio Franco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBe62Z3Htko

Why is the Jew hating elmo?

kermit the ZOG

nice.

lawl

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/elmo-imposter-hassles-tourists-money-booted-central-park-zoo-article-1.1101710

daily news omits all this. WHO ARE THEY PROTECTING

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo#Criticism_and_controversy

Elmo has been referred to as the "Little Red Menace" by Sesame Street traditionalists[7]

dying @ "Elmo IMPOSTER"

IOC shot down proposal to hold 1 minute of silence for the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich terror attacks. 40 year anniversary, 10th anniversary game-wise... The Olympic Committee makes a lot of stupid decision but there's a lot of people saying its antisemitism that's the real reason they won't do the minute of silence. Then again the people making this argument are saying it in articles like this and I'm not sure what to think:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/106409/jewish-blood-is-cheap

can't say I really give a shit

well thanks for posting then!

I don't know if I'd say "antisemitism" but there's a good chance there's arab-israeli-euroleft politics in there and a smidgen of cravenness as well.

yeah, the salivating of both sides to jump on it as proof of their point is so depressing that i'm not even going to click a story on it.

yeah the comment thread is quite the echo chamber of sanctimony and indignance, as you might expect. I think they should have the moment of silence though. I mean it has to be one of the scariest, worst, most tragic thing that ever happened to an olympic games. I mean what about making secondary that it was Israelis and remembering that olympic athletes were killed -- that's the kind of spirit the olympics ought to have, I would think.

Did they do anything in 1992 for the 20th?

i don't really care, but even eurovision commemorated it when it was held in munich

I'm certainly aware that there's a contingent who is probably trying to make a flag pin out of this issue, as it were.

flag pin = the new shibboleth?

http://youngcontrarian.tumblr.com/post/14914351170/gore-vidal-and-the-jewish-question

In “Pink Triangle and Yellow Star” in particular, Vidal seems irked by the very notion of a conservatively-minded Jewish sensibility, or commentators who might advocate for interests not of immediate importance to isolationists like himself. Indeed, Vidal has long argued retrospectively against American involvement in the Second World War, in Europe or otherwise, and in the lead-up to the conflict was a supporter of Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee.

when he was what, 14?

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/books/99/08/05/SEXUALLY_SPEAKING.html

Gore Vidal's ideas about sex grow out of his ideas about himself: he is one of the last American aristocrats ("My family helped start [this country], and we've been in political life . . . since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country"), and is angry at what new immigrants ("I think the Roman Catholic arrivals here have not been -- how shall I put this tactfully -- a great addition to our Republic") and the national security state have done to erode his patrimony. That patrimony includes a dignified tolerance that extends to sexual matters, and this is the principle that underlies his witty and entertaining polemics against the intolerant masses. But every cause that Vidal embraces has deeper and better bases for support than those he advances in Sexually Speaking. "All men are created equal" may not date back quite as far as the 1690s, but it is a better defense of liberty, sexual and otherwise, than the one presented here.

"how shall I put this tactfully"

Young Contrarian taking on Old and now Dead Contrarian in weak blog shocka.