{"id":3554,"date":"2007-08-06T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T07:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/06\/from-the-mailbag-im-jewishly-jewish\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T07:21:03","slug":"from-the-mailbag-im-jewishly-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"From The Mailbag: I'm a Jewishly Jewish Jew!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten several lovely emails in response to the “White Lies<\/a>” cartoon. This one is notable for its rigorously narrow focus:<\/p>\n

Your looks are jewish, your work is jewishily inspired and intended. The results of your agitprop are of benefit to jews alone. You are a jew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Damn straight my looks are Jewish! At least some of my work is directly inspired by my Judaism. I’m fine with my work benefiting Jews (although I’d be kinda disappointed if no one else benefited). And yup, I am a Jew.<\/p>\n

So I’m guilty on all counts, and yet… was any of that supposed to be derisive<\/em>? It’s as if someone told me off by emphasizing how handsome, likable and well-groomed I am. If that’s the best you can think of for an insult — then for God’s sake, insult me some more.<\/p>\n

Along similar lines, one of the folks on this racist site <\/a>comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, its just another fat liberal man who was deprived of attention during childhood and does whatever he hs to to get his fill, just like Micheal Moore!\u201d. JUST like the big MM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh noooooo <\/em>— I’m likened to an incredibly successful and popular Oscar-winning movie director! Oh, the horror, the horror! ((And thank goodness only stupid right-wingers would respond to a cartoon they don’t like by making fat jokes about the cartoonist! Good thing us feminists<\/em> would never do that, right? Right? Oh, uh… never mind.))<\/p>\n

Next they’ll insult me by telling me how great I smell…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten several lovely emails in response to the “White Lies” cartoon. This one is notable for its rigorously narrow focus: Your looks are jewish, your work is jewishily inspired and intended. The results of your agitprop are of benefit … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-cartooning-comics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}