Tom Lehrer lost a court case that cost him $100,000 and apparently ended his performing career. His crime? A blisteringly satirical song against racism, classism and yes, anti-semitism that included the laugh line "and everybody hates the Jews." This was in the context of everybody hating everybody, except during National Brotherhood Wee…
Tom Lehrer lost a court case that cost him $100,000 and apparently ended his performing career. His crime? A blisteringly satirical song against racism, classism and yes, anti-semitism that included the laugh line "and everybody hates the Jews." This was in the context of everybody hating everybody, except during National Brotherhood Week. "Be thankful that it doesn't last all year." To even suggest that that segment of the American population is actually doing pretty well, and that a distant country's people who share a religion and cultural background with them maybe shouldn't be able to do absolutely anything they want to the original inhabitants... is somehow antisemitic.
Tom Lehrer lost a court case that cost him $100,000 and apparently ended his performing career. His crime? A blisteringly satirical song against racism, classism and yes, anti-semitism that included the laugh line "and everybody hates the Jews." This was in the context of everybody hating everybody, except during National Brotherhood Week. "Be thankful that it doesn't last all year." To even suggest that that segment of the American population is actually doing pretty well, and that a distant country's people who share a religion and cultural background with them maybe shouldn't be able to do absolutely anything they want to the original inhabitants... is somehow antisemitic.
I don't get it either, Matt.