Hyperallergic has spent two weeks using the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust as an opportunity to lament the Palestinian plight. If only they were unique in the art world.
So This! I had to unsubscribe for their news letter when they openly voiced anti-Israel sentiment. My favorite was their statement that they are supported by "Queers for Palestine" - I'd love to see those Queers make their way to Palestine and spend some time there..
Oct 23, 2023·edited Oct 23, 2023Liked by Franklin Einspruch
As for the fashionable pro-Palestine sentiment, the "art world" doesn't know and, by it's nature, can't know, which way is up. What the "art world" can do is follow fashion. So can school kids. This is one of those times when the left's green curtain is accidentally pushed aside and true intentions go on display.
For what it may be worth, I found a beautiful example of solidarity with the Jewish people from the world of the arts, even though it is from 1842. It is the Hebrew Chorus from Verdi's opera Nabucco (his first major triumph), which has always been the biggest hit from that opera. In it, the exiled Jews long for their homeland and ask for divine help to bear their sorrows. Follow the link below:
The art world, of course, same as academia, was already primed to respond as it has, so its response shouldn't really be a surprise. But, the magnitude of the atrocity in question is such that it induces painfully unrealistic expectations. Alas, human perversity is rather worse than we'd like to believe.
Well I’m with you on this one Franklin. I certainly am against killing innocent civilians. And I’m not completely sure what percentage of the Palestinian Gaza Strip population supports Hamas,… and yes war is hell… I support Israel in defending itself. I support Israel and its attempt to eradicate Hamas and all radical fundamentalist elements and this would include some of its own. I would hope they could do this without committing war crimes. This might be a challenge.
My theory is as follows: "Deep down, every person possesses their own bundle of seething ethnic/racial/sexual/status/professional/fill-in-the-blank resentments and would at least be tempted to, or feel the urge to, slit the throat of their fellow man" is inarguably true, based on history. But saying that it is true makes you a reactionary, like that rascal Solzhenitsyn ("the line between good and evil runs through every human heart").
The woke/commie heresy is that "people are basically good" (i.e. flatter the human ego) and that "it's society/systems/oppression that's responsible for misery" (i.e. all we have to do is fix society), thus they believe that by electing to side with the Victims and the Oppressed, i.e. to Join the Right Side of History, they are ipso facto the Good Guys, and that any level of atrocity suffered their Bourgeois/Kulak/White/Male/Zionist/Phallogocentric opponents is obviously justified, since said opponents are all that stands between the People and the broad sunlit uplands of an Oppression-Free society.
So that's why Palestinian/Nonbinary/Black/Generic Victim Group feel entitled to be openly hateful/genocidal against their class enemies. They have the feeling that if they could just get rid of the oppressors, that everything would be better. Sad!
Oct 21, 2023·edited Oct 22, 2023Liked by Franklin Einspruch
I wish I could offer you an excuse less weak or dubious than arts people being flighty, fashion-driven and less-than-profound thinkers, but that's the best that occurs to me. Yes, you are also an art person, but hardly a typical one. The problem is certainly not peculiar to the art world; it's at least as bad in academia, for instance, not that that helps any. Well, once again, I'm glad I'm not in the arts.
What was put out by the likes of the New York Times immediately after the Gaza hospital bomb blast was essentially the Hamas version, which has now been debunked to something VERY different. But, regardless of intent, the initially published misinformation amounted to blood libel, which could have gotten Jews all over the world killed in retaliation. The NYT has issued a soft "mistakes were made" sort of statement, but there's no real apology. I suppose this is par for the course, but the course reeks. And by the way, for those who (like me till recently) think the NYT's head honcho, A.G. Sulzberger, is a Jew, his paternal grandfather was, but he's not, and neither was his father and predecessor.
Needs to be said, needs to be read.
So This! I had to unsubscribe for their news letter when they openly voiced anti-Israel sentiment. My favorite was their statement that they are supported by "Queers for Palestine" - I'd love to see those Queers make their way to Palestine and spend some time there..
As for the fashionable pro-Palestine sentiment, the "art world" doesn't know and, by it's nature, can't know, which way is up. What the "art world" can do is follow fashion. So can school kids. This is one of those times when the left's green curtain is accidentally pushed aside and true intentions go on display.
For what it may be worth, I found a beautiful example of solidarity with the Jewish people from the world of the arts, even though it is from 1842. It is the Hebrew Chorus from Verdi's opera Nabucco (his first major triumph), which has always been the biggest hit from that opera. In it, the exiled Jews long for their homeland and ask for divine help to bear their sorrows. Follow the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VejTwFjwVI
The art world, of course, same as academia, was already primed to respond as it has, so its response shouldn't really be a surprise. But, the magnitude of the atrocity in question is such that it induces painfully unrealistic expectations. Alas, human perversity is rather worse than we'd like to believe.
Well I’m with you on this one Franklin. I certainly am against killing innocent civilians. And I’m not completely sure what percentage of the Palestinian Gaza Strip population supports Hamas,… and yes war is hell… I support Israel in defending itself. I support Israel and its attempt to eradicate Hamas and all radical fundamentalist elements and this would include some of its own. I would hope they could do this without committing war crimes. This might be a challenge.
My theory is as follows: "Deep down, every person possesses their own bundle of seething ethnic/racial/sexual/status/professional/fill-in-the-blank resentments and would at least be tempted to, or feel the urge to, slit the throat of their fellow man" is inarguably true, based on history. But saying that it is true makes you a reactionary, like that rascal Solzhenitsyn ("the line between good and evil runs through every human heart").
The woke/commie heresy is that "people are basically good" (i.e. flatter the human ego) and that "it's society/systems/oppression that's responsible for misery" (i.e. all we have to do is fix society), thus they believe that by electing to side with the Victims and the Oppressed, i.e. to Join the Right Side of History, they are ipso facto the Good Guys, and that any level of atrocity suffered their Bourgeois/Kulak/White/Male/Zionist/Phallogocentric opponents is obviously justified, since said opponents are all that stands between the People and the broad sunlit uplands of an Oppression-Free society.
So that's why Palestinian/Nonbinary/Black/Generic Victim Group feel entitled to be openly hateful/genocidal against their class enemies. They have the feeling that if they could just get rid of the oppressors, that everything would be better. Sad!
I wish I could offer you an excuse less weak or dubious than arts people being flighty, fashion-driven and less-than-profound thinkers, but that's the best that occurs to me. Yes, you are also an art person, but hardly a typical one. The problem is certainly not peculiar to the art world; it's at least as bad in academia, for instance, not that that helps any. Well, once again, I'm glad I'm not in the arts.
What was put out by the likes of the New York Times immediately after the Gaza hospital bomb blast was essentially the Hamas version, which has now been debunked to something VERY different. But, regardless of intent, the initially published misinformation amounted to blood libel, which could have gotten Jews all over the world killed in retaliation. The NYT has issued a soft "mistakes were made" sort of statement, but there's no real apology. I suppose this is par for the course, but the course reeks. And by the way, for those who (like me till recently) think the NYT's head honcho, A.G. Sulzberger, is a Jew, his paternal grandfather was, but he's not, and neither was his father and predecessor.