Waiting for the fallout

[andrewducker]

Comments

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

Tracey thinks it may be anti-semetic.
But then she thought she didn't know what it meant.

My only other comment is....
on the sabbath as well - shame on you!

[andrewducker]

Tell Tracey I lost various relations in Treblinka and Auschwitz and have a nose of unusual size.

I'm most unlikely to be anti-semitic.

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

interesting point - "semite" is actually an ethnic classification that include Arabs as well as jews.

And obviously it's not anti-semitic, it's making the point that arabs have plenty lot of land, while Israelis have sod-all. Jews as a whole have been being fucked over royally for 2000 years, it's really not such a bad thing that they have their own nation now.

Shame that the Israeli government are a shower of bastards, though. We never dealt with Irish terrorism by blowing up the houses of IRA bomber's families. Of course, that's not an entirely fair example, but you get the point; Israel's tactics are massively over the top. The Palestinian terrorists are nasty little shits, too, of course, but the continuation of atrocities on both sides is ridiculous. I'm essentially against any stance that is strongly supportive of the actions of either side - both sides are right to some extent in principal, but go much too far in practise. Nasty, messy situation.

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

i knew you wouldn't be anti-semitic.
i didn't realise you had a nose of unusual size. maybe the hair take the attention away from it :)

[diffrentcolours]

Does that mean that you can't be anti-semitic though? And does it mean that if you find something which is allegedly anti-semitic to be funny, that it can't be anti-semitic?

[andrewducker]

Doesn't mean I can't be, although I'm sure the number of anti-semitic jews is fairly low.

And anti-semitism is in the intention and the perception. When we can't know what the intention is (because all we have is a cartoon and no authorial comment), we must rely on the perception. If it doesn't look anti-semitic to me, then it's not anti-semitic to me. It may well be anti-semitic to you, of course. But that's hardly my responsibility, is it?

Oh, and the cartoon in this case is pro-semitic anyway.