As a kid growing up in the 1950s, every Christmas time we watched the magnificent Alastair Sims version of "A Christmas Carol" on a TV show called Million Dollar Movie. The show played one film per week several times during the week. So, for several years, my proudly Jewish parents and my brother and I watched and loved what is perhaps the most overtly Christian film version of this story. At school we enjoyed making those red and green paper chains and decorating the classroom festively for the Christmas season. Everyone knew who was Jewish and who was not. In almost every way, IT DIDN'T MATTER. Jew hatred was something my family from Russia and Poland had escaped. We knew all about it. It had no place in our lives in this nation, and the harmony between the "Judeo" and the "Christian" parts of the American heritage appeared to us as fused and settled. Sadly, in this age of hyper-ostentatiousness, some of our liberal-left betters tell some of us supposed inferiors how naive we are about all that. And meanwhile now some fake conservatives or "nationalists" parrot the left's woke obsessions and its twisted notion of diversity to also go on the prowl for Jews. It is sad. Meanwhile, they all sneer at the supposedly benighted 1950s (the era of MLK, Montgomery, Brown v Board of Ed, the Beats, Jackie Robinson, and Rock n' Roll) as if it were some wasteland to be condemned from on high. Oh well, anyway, thanks Ira for this one. Think anyone at the Times will notice? I hope so.
From “Real Clear Religion:” “Joe Biden seems confused about what’s sacred. In his first address since dropping his re-election bid, he used the word four times, referring to the Oval Office, the task of “perfecting” our nation, the “cause of our country,” and the ideals of our founding documents. Perhaps being a Catholic priest makes me more alert to the word, but its appearance in a political speech seemed odd. The aforementioned may be important, praiseworthy and deserving of respect. None are sacred.”
The Times is garbage, by which I mean, to quote Mr. Pape, "something that can be easily thrown away." I threw it away in 1992. Since then, a good deal of my exposure to the Nation's Foremost College Newspaper comes via Mr. Stoll, who continues to subject himself to its nihilistic propaganda on a daily basis.
Touche, Mr. Stoll! Today's hacks posing as journalists are so incredibly lazy. It's been decades now since the Fourth Estate showed even a smidgen of interest in being fair or accurate.
Do you really see the manner in which 47 frequently references entire ethnicities without any attempt to clarify or apologize as analogous to 46 inarticulately attempting to clap back at a comedian who used the term for Puerto Rico?
Terrific piece
As a kid growing up in the 1950s, every Christmas time we watched the magnificent Alastair Sims version of "A Christmas Carol" on a TV show called Million Dollar Movie. The show played one film per week several times during the week. So, for several years, my proudly Jewish parents and my brother and I watched and loved what is perhaps the most overtly Christian film version of this story. At school we enjoyed making those red and green paper chains and decorating the classroom festively for the Christmas season. Everyone knew who was Jewish and who was not. In almost every way, IT DIDN'T MATTER. Jew hatred was something my family from Russia and Poland had escaped. We knew all about it. It had no place in our lives in this nation, and the harmony between the "Judeo" and the "Christian" parts of the American heritage appeared to us as fused and settled. Sadly, in this age of hyper-ostentatiousness, some of our liberal-left betters tell some of us supposed inferiors how naive we are about all that. And meanwhile now some fake conservatives or "nationalists" parrot the left's woke obsessions and its twisted notion of diversity to also go on the prowl for Jews. It is sad. Meanwhile, they all sneer at the supposedly benighted 1950s (the era of MLK, Montgomery, Brown v Board of Ed, the Beats, Jackie Robinson, and Rock n' Roll) as if it were some wasteland to be condemned from on high. Oh well, anyway, thanks Ira for this one. Think anyone at the Times will notice? I hope so.
From “Real Clear Religion:” “Joe Biden seems confused about what’s sacred. In his first address since dropping his re-election bid, he used the word four times, referring to the Oval Office, the task of “perfecting” our nation, the “cause of our country,” and the ideals of our founding documents. Perhaps being a Catholic priest makes me more alert to the word, but its appearance in a political speech seemed odd. The aforementioned may be important, praiseworthy and deserving of respect. None are sacred.”
Did he really say the Oval Office itself was sacred? Talk about a Golden Calf!
The Times is garbage, by which I mean, to quote Mr. Pape, "something that can be easily thrown away." I threw it away in 1992. Since then, a good deal of my exposure to the Nation's Foremost College Newspaper comes via Mr. Stoll, who continues to subject himself to its nihilistic propaganda on a daily basis.
Touche, Mr. Stoll! Today's hacks posing as journalists are so incredibly lazy. It's been decades now since the Fourth Estate showed even a smidgen of interest in being fair or accurate.
Do you really see the manner in which 47 frequently references entire ethnicities without any attempt to clarify or apologize as analogous to 46 inarticulately attempting to clap back at a comedian who used the term for Puerto Rico?