From The Mailbag: I’m a Jewishly Jewish Jew!
| August 6th, 2007I’ve gotten several lovely emails in response to the “White Lies” cartoon. This one is notable for its rigorously narrow focus:
Your looks are jewish, your work is jewishily inspired and intended. The results of your agitprop are of benefit to jews alone. You are a jew.
Damn straight my looks are Jewish! At least some of my work is directly inspired by my Judaism. I’m fine with my work benefiting Jews (although I’d be kinda disappointed if no one else benefited). And yup, I am a Jew.
So I’m guilty on all counts, and yet… was any of that supposed to be derisive? It’s as if someone told me off by emphasizing how handsome, likable and well-groomed I am. If that’s the best you can think of for an insult — then for God’s sake, insult me some more.
Along similar lines, one of the folks on this racist site comments:
“Oh, its just another fat liberal man who was deprived of attention during childhood and does whatever he hs to to get his fill, just like Micheal Moore!”. JUST like the big MM.
Oh noooooo – I’m likened to an incredibly successful and popular Oscar-winning movie director! Oh, the horror, the horror!1
Next they’ll insult me by telling me how great I smell…
- And thank goodness only stupid right-wingers would respond to a cartoon they don’t like by making fat jokes about the cartoonist! Good thing us feminists would never do that, right? Right? Oh, uh… never mind. (back)
August 6th, 2007 at 1:56 am
If that’s the best you can think of for an insult — then for God’s sake, insult me some more.
Ok. You’re good looking, smart, talented, and interesting too. So there.
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August 6th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Thanks for the laugh! It’s brightened up my morning a bunch! If you get anymore mis-aimed insults, do share them!
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August 6th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I share your disdain for people who would make such remarks. But is it really necessary to attack them on the basis of their sexual orientation?
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August 6th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Don’t think I’ve ever heard the word “jewishily” before. (But even so, I think it would be capitalized, wouldn’t it?)
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I occasionally mention how often I, as a goy in NYC where one would expect it to be rare, encounter antisemitism.
People are shocked …Shocked! … that there would be antisemitism. Among educated, cosmopolitan people in a major city!
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August 6th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Of all the Jews I know, you are the Jewiest.
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August 7th, 2007 at 12:37 am
The results of your agitprop are of benefit to jews alone
Thanks, Amp! I’ll put in a good word for you at the next F.A.Y.G.E.L.E.H. meeting.
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August 7th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
More proof that, for, any discussion whatsoever, there is a relevant Weird Al song.
I have Jewish relatives on my father’s side; I haven’t run into anything I’ve recognized as anti-Semitism in my personal life, but you can find anything on the Internet if you know how to look.
Especially idiots.
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August 7th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Doug S., Honey you don’t have to look. The anti-semites will come to you.
Amp’s not the only Jew around here; I am a Jew too. In fact, any white person who speaks out against racism is a Jewishly, Jewish, Jew.
Judging by the comments here, and at my site, I probably get more anti-semitic comments than Amp. Many of them are sexist and anti-semitic simultaneously.
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August 7th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
My looks aren’t particularly Jewish, but my first name is (I was named after my father’s Jewish stepfather), and I’d say that my work is Jewishly inspired. Oh, and I married a Jewish woman, and am thus eligible for Israeli citizenship.
Tell that goyisher kopf that even the Germans don’t want his kind around anymore - they fucked up the country enough!
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Pst, Amp, wanna join the zionist NWO conspiracy movement with me, it’ll be fun!
(ahem, also a jew, damn skippy)
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Why must everything be a competition?
:-P
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I win. LOL!!
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August 8th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Doug S., Honey you don’t have to look. The anti-semites will come to you.
Yes, but they do it in a weird and non-obvious distribution. I haven’t been able to fathom how they determine which people are most deserving of anti-Semitic abuse.
FWIW, I get more anti-Semitic troll comments than any other kind of bigotry (at least if I don’t count the arguments about homosexuality, which, unlike the anti-Semitic comments, have some connection to the blog posts to which they’re attached). But still way, way less than you guys, since I’m a small blog.
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August 8th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
“And thank goodness only stupid right-wingers would respond to a cartoon they don’t like by making fat jokes about the cartoonist! Good thing us feminists would never do that, right? Right? Oh, uh… never mind. (↩)”
Snark.
Lynn - My theory is that they make a big pinboard with the names of leftist blogs and then throw darts at it in order to determine who to hurl the insults at. Which method displays more logic than most of their arguments, sadly enough.
PS - Dear random bigot, “jewishly” is not a real word. What, you think you can just make this stuff up as you go along?
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August 8th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Congratulations on the retro 1930’s hate-mail. You know, of course, that this means right-wingers are listening and having to justify themselves against your art. That’s a pretty high mark on the wall.
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