What kind of freeper bullshit is that? Fuck your PC antagonism and anything else you have to say. I'll wait for credible analysis from somebody who has half a brain.
It's further debatable whether or not consideration of other people's ethnic prejudices have any legitimate role whatsoever to play in making a selection (I suppose this would come down to a contest between principle and pragmatism), but even if the answer is no, the question presupposes acknowledging the fact of the prejudice in the first place. I'm presuming that the author doesn't share that prejudice, but acknowledges that it exists (in which case it would have been worth a few more words to clear that up).
If the author disclaims the poor choice of words, then it's a pretty quality diary. I'm hoping that disclaimer will be made, and made promptly so we can discuss the rest of the observations.
I'm not trying to reinforce this sorry state of affairs (let's face it, not that many people read this blog, and we are all pretty like-minded) -- but the country is the way it is and we need to deal with that.
A guy from New York with the last name Rosenberg, on TV in middle America, talking about the Mets and laughing self-deprecatingly, is the face of a New York Jew.
While these assaults on my character are interesting, does anyone have anything substantive to say about how these guys would do be perceived on the Sunday morning shows or the evening news? Because that's what I was writing about.
Uh. Are you serious? He seemed pretty Jewsish to me, and how many non-Jews are named Rosenberg?
I don't really want to get too much into the conversation, but I think that this google explanation of the search term "jew" says it best:
I understand you disagreed with what I wrote. But I've been on the site about a year now (it's true I just registered last month, but I read it daily before I began posting) and I was expressing an honest opinion that I'm happy - actually, very interested - to debate with you.
I troll-rated your posts hoping someone else would 0-rate them and help me to remove them from my diary. I spent about an hour writing it, and you seem to be trying to block any dicussion. If you disagree with me, please talk to me or move on -- but recognize I am open to changing my mind and just want to be heard.
empty.
I am still in shock that like-minded people (myDD readers) can have such polar opposite views.
Look, the Republican party has demonized Democrats as either (a) Northeastern intellectual Jews who went to Harvard and eat wine and cheese, and (b) pinko commie hippies who live in California and sleep in sex orgies. That is the reality of what's out there. I am not making it up. And I am not really advancing the idea by writing it down on a blog somewhere either.
Image is superficial but it is also everything.
Simon Rosenberg is a sincere guy and the ads he developed with NDN were the best anyone made last year. But if you put Simon Rosenberg as the party's public face and say, now we're going to go on talk shows and appeal to blue-collar workers in Oklahoma, good luck.
Don't know what parts of the country you're used to, but neither Jews nor New Yorkers are well-loved in big chunks of it.
