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dravenonred t1_ix801j0 wrote

This article is paternalistic garbage.

It arbitrarily picks Seinfeld as a "high point" of Jewish comedy, and then uses this unearned distinction to pick apart the lack of Jewish focus?

It dismisses Marvelous Ms. Maisel, which is arguably a love letter to New York Jewish society of the 50s, because it's lead isn't Jewish despite a deep bench of accomplished Jewish talent both on camera and behind the scenes?

Lastly, it attacks the very idea of non-jewish playing Jews as "an exception" to casting authenticity pressures while being amazingly ignorant that the whole point is that black/gay/trans actors are being actively crowded out of media by being relegated to "their" type of characters, who are then split with more conventional actors on top of it. Jewish actors are welcomed into play many types of roles, which does in fact take off the pressure to always cast authentic Jews as Jewish characters.

Ok, done kvetching for a while. But garbage.

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Thymus_Tickler t1_ix89pcs wrote

Not to mention Badiels past of appearing in black face.

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tinasnow-poty t1_ix8cits wrote

Seeing him of all people saying that some types of racism are dismissed is actually mind boggling to me

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edwardmetalwing t1_ix8aar1 wrote

I went to his show just a few months ago and it really just amounted to jealousy of black people being treated with sympathy.

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