Is this anti-semitism?

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?"

okay, calibrating

I dunno what it is but it's certainly bizarre.

I would never wear that.

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

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/04/belgian-train-announcement-welcome-to-this-train-for-auschwitz-all-jews-get-off-at-buchenwald/

:/

What the hell

have we discussed this before? http://www.rp.pl/artykul/877193.html#.T7e5keUfje4.facebook

i kinda want to buy one

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.

ive never seen these things before

eastern european religious kitsch can be pretty strange

i don't even know how i'd get one

ebay.pl, google translate

i got nothin

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.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/23/the_worlds_most_racist_job_ad

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.

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.

I mean neither is as exceptionally good as the drug dealer lawyer on The Wire, is all I'm saying.

"Jewish lawyers are the best" has a slightly more negative undertone than "Jewish internists are the best" though because people think lawyers are sleazy.

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