I love how in any story involving swastikas there's always at least one dick commenter going THEY HAVE A LONG HISTORY DID U NOT KNOW ABOUT THE INDIAN HISTORY OF THE SWASTIKA BLA BLA NAZIS RUINED IT
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nazis ruin everything.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
My best friend at school invited a whole German exchange class over to his house to celebrate Diwali, temporarily forgetting that it was absolutely festooned with swastikas. That was a little awkward.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
that kind of swastika is usually reversed! not that that makes a difference tho
― dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Reverse Swastika is my favorite wrestling move. Very effective.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, a good cocktail.
And sex move.
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
swastikas are free to go either way on the subcontinent; only the nazis were such nazis about it
― ogmor, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am really sensitive about anti-semitism, I mean, I am not Jewish but if someone poured maple syrup all over my floor I would be deeply distressed. I'd need therapy. I've seen a really casual attitude about it in some places, like they can take a "joke".
My grandmother was a governess to a Jewish family, same with my dad's first boss out of college, again they are like family. I don't think you have to be Jewish to be hurt by this stuff, I just ignore weird politically correct people. I mean, how do you live being that "pc"?
Like I know people who think it's weird to look at Jewish websites if you're not Jewish. Like, what kind of weird attitude is that?
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I am really sensitive about anti-semitism, I mean, I am not Jewish but if someone poured maple syrup all over my floor I would be deeply distressed."
― max, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/04/19/3093326/urban-outfitters-goes-with-holocaust-style-star
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 April 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
help me out. that seems to indicate solidarity more than anti-semitism, and i'd assume that the intended consumer is jewish?
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 April 2012 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 April 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm not sure that it's anti-semitic, probably not in intention, but i would never wear one :/
― Mordy, Friday, 20 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just showed the shirt to my wife with no context and her response was, "is this real? what the fuck is wrong with these people?"
― Mordy, Friday, 20 April 2012 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay, calibrating
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Friday, 20 April 2012 00:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
I dunno what it is but it's certainly bizarre.
I would never wear that.
― drum hitler gets full publishing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think it's anti-semitic, I think it's just kind of ill-considered. You can't really assume people are going to be cool with "reappropriation" of symbols associated with ethnic slaughter
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/04/belgian-train-announcement-welcome-to-this-train-for-auschwitz-all-jews-get-off-at-buchenwald/
:/
― Mordy, Monday, 7 May 2012 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
What the hell
― quincie, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
have we discussed this before? http://www.rp.pl/artykul/877193.html#.T7e5keUfje4.facebook
i kinda want to buy one
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jew of the coins is the patron saint of financial success. "The Jew in the court, money in your pocket" - the slogan suggests. When I see it in homes, shops, galleries of art objects - I feel bad
The combination of a Jew and money zagościło for good in the Christian imagination, when - as the Gospel - Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Since that time, Judas has become synonymous with Jew, and the rest of the apostles and Jesus somehow ceased to be Jews. With time, the mythical Jew, a Jew on the phantasm "in general", tightly covered the reality they were real to the Jews.
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
ive never seen these things before
eastern european religious kitsch can be pretty strange
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't even know how i'd get one
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
ebay.pl, google translate
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i got nothin
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't recall ever seeing one. The original article from Gazeta Wyborcza seemed to indicate it's a pretty standard piece of tourist merch but i'm not sure i've ever come across it. There's tonnes of tourist tat, including paintings, that references the pre-war Jewish community but it's generally aimed at Jewish tourists. I'll have to keep an eye out next time i'm over.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/23/the_worlds_most_racist_job_ad
― chris paul george hill (dayo), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
A Jewish lawyer once told me that he thinks Jewish lawyers benefit from anti-semitism, because even (perhaps ESPECIALLY) anti-semites assume that you have to have a Jewish lawyer or that Jewish lawyers are better.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have heard the same said about internists.
FYI I think my internist is Jewish; my physiatrist (as in rehabilitative medicine, not shrink, but probably applies there as well) is definitely Jewish. They are both kinda meh.
― quincie, Friday, 25 May 2012 01:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
I mean neither is as exceptionally good as the drug dealer lawyer on The Wire, is all I'm saying.
― quincie, Friday, 25 May 2012 01:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Jewish lawyers are the best" has a slightly more negative undertone than "Jewish internists are the best" though because people think lawyers are sleazy.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Jewish doulas are the best, AFAIK...
― There are many tribes in the Juggalo nation (Viceroy), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
ouch. double whammy.
― Mordy, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-people-hate-jews-2012-5
lol what kind of dunce is henry blodget
― goole, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
if he is jewish I may have an answer
― bnw, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
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"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 01:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://elitedaily.com/elite/2012/date-jewish-boy/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150880635816510_21998062_10150881150131510?#f82c4398
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
this elite daily site gd
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
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"
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
what says 'the voice of generation y' more than a tastefully monochrome background image of parquet flooring?
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
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"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
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― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
that is an amazing sentence for quite a few reasons
what does being a "panty" even mean?
― eggleston or instagram? (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:11 (11 months ago) Permalink