Nor can anyone else. Saturday Night Live made “New York Jewish Liberal” one indivisible concept, but why? (Soviet internal passports made only one distinction - Jews were zhid, regardless of their nationality. Stalin made Hitler look like an amateur; pogrom is a Russian word…)
The only theory I've ever encountered that makes any sense was in an essay entitled, “Why Does Hollywood Hate Small Towns?” The gist of it is that a good many screenwriters &c. came from the “flyover states” where they encountered bruising anti-Semitism while growing up, which they then projected back onto America as a whole - and of course “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” as long as you ignore inconvenient facts…
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Date: 2017-09-03 13:38 (UTC)Nor can anyone else. Saturday Night Live made “New York Jewish Liberal” one indivisible concept, but why? (Soviet internal passports made only one distinction - Jews were zhid, regardless of their nationality. Stalin made Hitler look like an amateur; pogrom is a Russian word…)
The only theory I've ever encountered that makes any sense was in an essay entitled, “Why Does Hollywood Hate Small Towns?” The gist of it is that a good many screenwriters &c. came from the “flyover states” where they encountered bruising anti-Semitism while growing up, which they then projected back onto America as a whole - and of course “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” as long as you ignore inconvenient facts…