Pharisees in the Synagogue listening to Jesus Christ speak to them
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Because It’s ‘Funny’ When Jews Do It
By Mark Glenn

August 12, 2007

Sarah Silverman making an ass of
herself & her Jewish “faith”
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Just when you think they have had their fill, when they couldn’t possibly fit any more into their collective gullet after engorging themselves at the buffet table of vulgar, brutish, boorish behavior, well, surprise, surprise, they come along and one-up themselves, just as they always have, always do, and unfortunately for the rest of us, always will.

It’s probably not a good thing to admit at this particular moment, given what it is I do these days for a living, but the fact of the matter is that until this afternoon, I had never heard of Sarah Silverman.

I do not watch television except for the news and the weather, and not because I am some sort of advanced, enlightened being who doesn’t need distractions like everyone else. Rather, it is because peace of mind is more valuable to me than gold, and thus the last thing I want to hear about are the details of the decadent, depressing world of show business types in America and what life is like for them in the sewer. Thus, I do not know who the latest flavor of the day is with regards to movies, music, television, etc, and therefore why up until today Mz. Silverman was someone unknown to me.

You can imagine then how shocked I was to read the following quote from one of her comedy routines. As usual, I apologize ahead of time to those with delicate ears or delicate eyes –

“I hope the Jews did kill Christ…I’d do it again. I’d fucking do it again—in a second.”

‘Must be a mistake’ I thought to myself. ‘They’re not that bold yet’.

A quick google search, using the name of this illustrious, much-celebrated and adored Jewish American Princess and a few of the key words attributed to her performance (that I was just sure couldn’t have taken place in this ‘Christian’ country known as the United States, and particularly with all those ‘God Bless America’ bumper stickers flying around these days) and, as luck would have it – ‘Bingo’! just as Fr. Burger used to say on Friday nights at St. Bernadette’s when I was a grade school youngster… Page after page after page of that infamous one-liner, along with page after page after page of praise and rave reviews from the most influential newspapers and periodicals in America.

Of course, in hindsight I now realize that this assumption on my part, that ‘They’re not that bold yet’ was merely symptomatic of this thing known as denial that a lot of us are going through these days as we consider the immensity of the situation we are facing. Again, in the interests of my own defense, this is a perfectly understandable, human thing, this ‘denial’ business. What is taking place with regards to the ‘nice Jewish folks’ who run our entertainment industry and the level to which they are willing to stoop these days is so insane and incomprehensible that it would appear to be impossible to any person of relatively sound mind.

More than this though, this ‘denial’ thing is perfectly understandable when considered in the context of what it means to be a Gentile. The fact is, we do not know what it is like to think with a Jewish mind and to see things through Jewish eyes. As much as we have been propagandized into thinking that we are all the same and that we all share the same basic values, needs and affections, the truth is that this is just another clever marketing ploy on the part of their PR people in making us and our behavior more predictable and pliable. We were not cut from the same cloth. We are not fruit that has fallen from the same tree. We Gentiles do not think like our Jewish counterparts, the history of the last 2,000 years being proof positive of this. As long as we remain Gentile and they remain Jewish we will never see eye to eye, just as we never have, something that they realize all-too-well despite the fact that we do not.

And it is for this reason that there is this undeniable predominance of Jews or else Jewish influence in American media, because Gentile culture has to be remade in their image so that it is more ‘hospitable’ to their affections and their agenda. If the proof of this is not self-evident to us it certainly is to them, partial evidence of which can be found in that infamous article written by Joel Kline appearing in the LA Times a few years ago–

‘This is what happens when you (Gentiles) forget to keep scaring us…Now that we’ve assimilated to the point where we’re completely the same as white people, we’re trying to re-create a community by shoving our culture down your throats.’

And thus, given that we do not think like our counterparts in the Jewish community means we have a difficult time understanding what drives and motivates them. We have trouble appreciating the ‘qualities’ that many (if not most) of them hold dear to some extent, such as nerviness, the willingness to ‘cross the line’ in terms of polite behavior, the willingness to offend and the seemingly ever-present proclivity towards defaming and degrading what is sacrosanct to others, something they refer to collectively as ‘chutzpah’.

And it is this fact – meaning that I still – even in 21st century America – think like a Gentile rather than a Jew, that is the reason for my briefly entertaining that ‘They’re not that bold yet’ notion’.

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