Q&A: Liberalism and the LGBT Community Are Coming (the next program on public broadcasting)
Liberalism and the LGBT Community Are Coming (the next program on public broadcasting)
Question
What do you think about programs / plays / films that demean Judaism / rabbis / religion in general? For example, what do you think about an organized program on public broadcasting like “The Jews Are Coming”? Do you think it would be possible to air on public broadcasting a program that makes fun of LGBT people, the mentally ill, Mizrahim with low IQs acting like idiots, IDF disabled veterans, fallen IDF soldiers, Arabs, retarded people, Jews, etc.? What is the difference between humiliating / trampling Judaism in almost all satire programs and programs that would engage in the crudest racism?
2. What do you think about the practice among some parts of the population of denying reality in an almost pathological way: leftists—denying the bias in the Supreme Court, in academia, in the media; Haredim about the fact that they do not share the burden; secular people about the fact that they are disconnected from Judaism; Religious Zionists about the insane failure in relation to the Haredim?
3. Do you think there is any basis for antisemitism because the Jews really do control the world—in academia, in politics, capital, the media, culture, etc.?
4. Do you think that in every argument one must include the logic in the claim, or can there be a claim that is correct intuitively even though at the moment it is impossible to prove the logic, as we often see?
5. Could you write a bit about Borges?
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Answer
It seems to me like letting off steam. If you want to ask a concrete question—ask. But one at a time, and in an orderly way.
Discussion on Answer
1. Satire programs go after every population group there is. If there are such comedians who make satire programs about gays, then there will also be programs like that. Of course they will be attacked for it, just as the religious attack “The Jews Are Coming.” It is permitted to laugh about everything, and none of the groups in the population behaves equally in its sense of humor. So everything is fine.
2. If there is something concrete, you can ask (I don’t know whether I’ll know how to answer)..
1. Why is it possible today to make programs like “The Jews Are Coming” to demean Judaism, but not “The Gays Are Coming” to demean homosexuality or the heartwarming doctrine of queerness? Why is it permitted to demean religion, but according to the new PC religion you can’t criticize gays and trans-queer-transcendentals? In your opinion, what is it okay to laugh at and what not? Because according to the discourse in Israel, it is only permitted to laugh at Haredim and religious people, at God and the Torah.
2. Could you write a bit about Borges??