Blogger stands back in shock (shock!) as social liberal Jew overreaches to find parallel immigration experiences where none exists
December 23, 2008 History, Immigration, Jewschool, Satire
“Something” is there – he just knows it, but he just can’t quite translate it into words.
A favorite pastime of social liberal Jews is to overreach in perceiving cultural parallels between the Jewish immigration experience to today’s immigrant groups even where little or no parallel exists. A Jewschool writer, chillul Who?, has decided that today’s Muslim punk rockers, who paint figures such as ““Osama McDonald,” write songs such as, “Suicide Bomb the Gap,” and have band names such as ““Vote Hezbollah” have so very much to do with American Jewry’s immigration experience.
“ Something about this story makes me think Lower East Side culture, circa 1920.“
Why don’t you explain what that “something” is? Go ahead. We’re waiting.
Below: The 1912 L.E.S. boys band, “Treifa Medinah” who painted, “Vote Gedolim,” and whose anthem song was, “Bitches on the back of the elevated trains.”
So very much in common. So very much.
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I am honored (honored!) to be excoriated on The Kvetcher. Don’t make too much of me though, dude. I’m just a part-time contributor to Jewschool, not the writer for the whole damn site. Happy Chanukah! Oily foods and guerilla warfare to all..
I never meant to suggest that your writing represented anyone’s ideas except your own. Never the less, I have edited the post in response to your concern.
It’s such a good thing we have you around, DK. It keeps us honest. Still, annoyed about that panel though.
There is a similarity though. Lots of young Jews are not going hardcore BT as they see those before them having done and walked away disillusioned or embraced it in a way that made them seem different than they used to be, but seemingly frustrated, swirling in personal circles. These young Muslims are as well. So too are many Christian kids whose parents’ born again fundamentalism ain’t theirs, but they got a want for something that gets them through nonetheless.
Everyone it seems wants to belong, but not too much. Wants to believe, but not what they’re told. Maybe rebellion is as useful a common trait as spirituality.
Thanks for pointing it out DK and thanks for the original cW. Nice article.
David, I thought the kids in that pic were the Vehemently venomous wrathful anti-religious “Jews” bent on slandering frum people!
Both, face. Clearly both.
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