Jacob Savage, The Vanishing. “Museum boards now diversify by getting Jews to resign. A well-respected Jewish curator at the Guggenheim is purged after she puts on a Basquiat show. At the Art Institute of Chicago, even the nice Jewish lady volunteers are terminated for having the wrong ethnic background. There’s an entire cottage industry of summer programs and fellowships and postdocs that are now off-limits to Jews.”
My current earworm is Edda Moser as Mozart's Queen of the Night (the video is a bit primitive, but the singing more than makes up for it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJiczQZwhY
As for the vanishing Jews, part of the problem is that it is "validated" (and protected) by current sociopolitical fashion, and another part is that (liberal) Jews have long been very fashion-conscious and fashion-observant, so they are conditioned to stay that way. I am not Jewish, but even before wokeness became a thing, my perception was that Jews were averse to going against the prevailing grain, presumably to avoid being excluded and marginalized as they were historically.
I wouldn't call America weird at this point; I'd call it considerably worse, not least because of the pretensions of the (self) righteous among us, who are apparently convinced they have achieved perfect enlightenment, and that everyone else is unworthy if not evil and should be treated accordingly.
Items of Interest, Weird America Edition
My current earworm is Edda Moser as Mozart's Queen of the Night (the video is a bit primitive, but the singing more than makes up for it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJiczQZwhY
As for the vanishing Jews, part of the problem is that it is "validated" (and protected) by current sociopolitical fashion, and another part is that (liberal) Jews have long been very fashion-conscious and fashion-observant, so they are conditioned to stay that way. I am not Jewish, but even before wokeness became a thing, my perception was that Jews were averse to going against the prevailing grain, presumably to avoid being excluded and marginalized as they were historically.
I wouldn't call America weird at this point; I'd call it considerably worse, not least because of the pretensions of the (self) righteous among us, who are apparently convinced they have achieved perfect enlightenment, and that everyone else is unworthy if not evil and should be treated accordingly.