She held out hope for those things, the way a sailor’s wife lights a candle in the window even when the sea is full of storms—her lost love may come back one day.


“This very subject—the inequity of offense that right-thinking people take around differing hate words—came up when a friend of mine, a man who very much would be thought of as a progressive, questioned me about this central premise of the film.”
― Jews Don't Count
― Jews Don't Count

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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“Jews, therefore, as far as progressives are concerned, don’t represent anything outside of themselves. No victory is claimed by championing their experience, and this leads to a subtle—and unconscious—exclusion.”
― Jews Don't Count
― Jews Don't Count

“This very subject—the inequity of offense that right-thinking people take around differing hate words—came up when a friend of mine, a man who very much would be thought of as a progressive, questioned me about this central premise of the film. He said: but the Y-word isn’t as bad as the N-word? I said: why not? He said: because Jews are rich.”
― Jews Don't Count
― Jews Don't Count

“But at what point does that neglect—given that we live in a time when almost any microaggression against a minority can be flagged as racism—shade back into racism?”
― Jews Don't Count
― Jews Don't Count
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