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an explanation of why he did thisโฆitโs uh. not great
Since it was placed earlier this week, community members have expressed anger about the Lake Theater and Cafeโs marquee advertising screenin
Since it was placed earlier this week, community members have expressed anger about the Lake Theater and Cafeโs marquee advertising screenings of Christopher Nolanโs new film โThe Odyssey.โ
The south-facing marquee reads โBefore there were the Jews, there wasโฆ The Odyssey.โ
The reference has concerned many in the local Jewish community, specifically because of the current political environment in which the Jewish community faces heightened criticism โ and bigotry โ following escalating violence in occupied Gaza, and many feel that the marquee is antisemetic and ahistorical.
Bob Horenstein, The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland chief community relations and public affairs officer, said the federation has received dozens of messages from concerned community members. The Review also received many emails expressing concerns and many people have posted on social media about it.
โThereโs drawing attention, and then thereโs being offensive โฆ What I wrote to (Lake Theater) yesterday was, weโd received over three dozen (email and calls) at least that members of our community feel very unsettled by the sign and I said we do not know the reason behind the choice of language, nor are we suggesting that there is necessarily any ill intent,โ he said. โBut to understand that, given the current climate of rising anti-Semitism, any reference to โthe Jewsโ is immediately suspected, rightly or wrongly, of having nefarious intentions, and that we would respectfully urge you to remove the current language and simply promote the movie.โ
Jordan Perry, the general manager of the Lake Theater, said the marquee text would be taken down.
In a text message, he said the point of the remark was to push back on what is constituted as antisemitism and said he was surprised by the negative reaction it has received.
โMy intention is never to influence opinion or fan flames, but to say: itโs okay to raise eyebrows, though I hope my messages reflect a depth of understanding others find in themselves but not always in the world around them,โ said Perry by text message. โThrough the media I consume, I believe modern-day antisemitism is exaggerated, mostly as a defense for Israelโs actions in the Middle East and its involvement in our politics, and my intention in referencing Jewish people on the marquee was to prod at everything being seemingly antisemitic with a statement that couldnโt possibly be construed as antisemitic.โ
He added: โMy intention was not to offend anyone, but rather to push back culturally back on what constitutes antisemitism, to signal, in solidarity, that itโs not about โthe Jews,โ that itโs about Israel, and Palestine, and Lebanon, and Iran, and AIPAC. This is my โhumor,โ this was the point, intentionally subtle, of what I put on the marquee.โ
Perry added that the marquees reflect his personal views, not those of the business, and are โmeant to connect with open-minded members of the community on a personal level, not as a business, and anyone coming to the business should only expect good food and drink, a relaxing environment, friendly staff, with a sort-of cynical guy sometimes behind the register who also runs food and cleans toilets.โ
Rabbi Eve Posen, of Congregation Nevah Shalom, connected the marquee with accusations by members of the U.S. Congress that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine and said that a member of the communityโs car was recently vandalized with swastikas.
โNone of the individual moments, taken on their own, would necessarily warrant a public reflection. We live in a world where people disagree. We debate policy. We challenge history. We confront acts of hatred. But when these moments come one after another, layering upon one another in the span of a single day, they tell a story that is impossible to ignore,โ Posen wrote via social media.
She also felt that there was no good reason for the Lake Theater to bring up the Jewish community while advertising the new film.
โThe statement is historically false. More importantly, it raises a painful question: why invoke Jews at all? A clever movie promotion could have celebrated one of the oldest stories ever told without unnecessarily positioning Judaism as an afterthought or a comparison. In a moment when antisemitism is already at historic levels, casually inserting Jews into a narrative where we do not belong doesnโt feel harmless. It feels like another reminder that our story is somehow expendable, that our history can be rewritten or diminished for the sake of a punchline,โ she wrote.
The north-facing marquee also referenced the new movie with the message, โDo you watch TV w/ subtitles? Weโve got The Odyssey w/ subtitles! (Not always, but sometimes).โ
Many people commented that the story of The Odyssey โ Homerโs original Greek epic passed down through an oral tradition โ isnโt definitively older than evidence of Israelite tribes in ancient Canaan.
โitโs not about the Jews,โ says absolute jerk who put โthe Jewsโ on his marquee. โIโm not antisemiticโ says the fool denying modern antisemitism.
"I didn't mean to be antisemitic, I just think Israel is weaponizing antisemitism and AIPAC secretly owns the US, so I talked about 'the Jews' in a vague way that implies antisemitism but doesn't outright say anything"
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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"
i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.
therefore, the Default Object is:
beautiful
makes a horrendous sound
smells absolutely awful
is very fragile
tastes delicious
and i still cannot think of anything that matches this
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Look, I only have a bachelor's degree, but it really seems to me that there's a lot of academic dishonesty and malpractice going on when so many academics are writing books about Gaza without actually doing research and positioning themselves as an authority yet admitting they're not a specialist
Dead giveaway to me is the citations (or lack thereof). Khalidi is probably the least egregious, and even he cites things like โmy father told me this as a childโ for the war meetings of 1967 instead of using the official records that contradict him. Masalha constantly misrepresents the positions of his sources and outright lies about what they say. Pappรฉ makes incendiary claims and cites โmy good friend told me this in passing once!โ And these are the actual leading antizionist historians on Palestine; the hobbyists and pop culture activist authors are so much worse. Iโve read books where the writer clearly got all of their information from social media and filled in the blanks with Al Jazeera. The last one I read was by an Indian-British sociologist who specialized in Indian decolonial theory, and he didnโt bother to cite a single quote or claim he made; he just threw a scavenger hunt of โrecommended readingโ at the back of the book.
Even among people who do specialize in this field, the methodology is slippery and horrible, and for everyone else, theyโre so convinced that theyโre fighting against the greatest evil ever that they donโt bother to do their homework and check the most basic facts. The echo chamber created by these people constantly citing each otherโs shoddy histories is maddening. They donโt actually know what the Zionist position is, so they fail to argue against it. Their writing, their scholarship, and their attempted advocacy suffers for it. If my advocates were this consistently clueless and dishonest, Iโd be furious.
youโre not alone. this was a problem even before 2023. i avoided lgbt groups in middle school/high school/college due to the rampant narcissism and antisemitism abound. i have nothing in common with the mainstream trans community and it truly disgusts me what the entire lgbt movement has become. racists. i have been forced to only find comfort in other jews, who of course are overwhelmingly pro-lgbt. ๐ซ
I grew up with some pretty rancid antisemitism but I didnโt know a lot of LGBT people as a kid and I always figured theyโd be better. When I got to college and was around a ton of LGBT people- wow are they NOT better at all. Honestly what do you expect when so much of the trans community feels totally okay saying they had a โNazi phaseโ like there was a whole YouTube video about it that got thousands of likes. Actually no I donโt care about the โpipelineโ fuck you. Being LGBT doesnโt absolve you of being a racist or an antisemite. Ever.
Starting to think all the backlash to the idea of the trolley problem is just people trying to hide the fact that, deep down, they know they would be too scared to pull the lever.
I suppose one of the advantages I've gained from having been in the military is that I went from a suspicion I would have the conviction to make those kinds of calls, an absolute certainty that I do have it. I've held lives in my hands, but thankfully I rose to my training and my convictions. I chose the best of the options I had available to me at the time.
There is nothing shameful about being too afraid of making the decision, in my view. But yeah, it's cowardice to project your anxiety by claiming the philosophical quandary itself is meaningless.
No reason to wonder. A ton of people openly bragged about how morally pure they were for not pulling the lever in 2024. They just hate it when you contextualize it like that and insist they were taking a third option to sound less terrible when their actions are 1:1 compared to the thought experiment.
If anything, the reason I reject it is because I consider the thought experiment ITSELF to be cowardly.
All human lives are worth the same amount, and any LOSS of human life is as large a tragedy as any other amount of lost human life. You aren't doing a GOOD thing by condemning one person to die to save four more, you're not even doing a BETTER thing. It might be the more valuable thing in a coldly utilitarian point of view, but from my moral stance death is death. You don't get to compare and contrast your way out of that.
People hate the trolley problem because it is inherent to the problem that choosing not to act is an active choice. That's why they reject the problem itself rather than making an argument for choosing to not pull the lever. They aren't afraid to pull the lever- they're afraid to admit that their priority is keeping their own hands clean.
I do think the trolley problem is worthless, but not for that reason. How many times in your life would you have to make a moral decision, and know the consequences for certain in advance? Yes saving four random strangers over one is the correct answer but the question itslf is nonsense. What makes moral dillemas difficult is that you can't know for sure what would happen.
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something that i think a lot of non-jews (and some jews) donโt realize about the word goy is that itโs a neutral word. And like many neutral words, it *can* be used in a negative way. Someone can say the word โJapaneseโ in a derogatory way, but that doesnโt mean every time you hear someone say it, theyโre being insulting
Itโs almost like literally every group has a word for people who arenโt in that group. What do they think โgringoโ means?? Or cis or straight???
They walked on into the dark and they slept like dogs in the sand and had been sleeping so when something black flapped up out of the night ground and perched on Sproule's chest. Fine fingerbones stayed the leather wings with which it steadied as it walked upon him. A wrinkled pug face, small and vicious, bare lips crimped in a horrible smile and teeth pale blue in the starlight. It leaned to him. It crafted in his neck two narrow grooves and folding its wings over him it began to drink his blood.
