Free tip to the cancel culture worriers. Look up Philip Roth's "Writing About Jews" for a sharp, eloquent articulation of your point of view -- good quote to spruce up argumentspic.twitter.com/8KMUIcv9oM
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Philip Roth American novelist Place of death: Manhattan, New York, NY Date of death: May 22, 2018
People are still talking about his books. Just not as self-hating.
Or simply moved to @elivalley's timeline?
That’s what my grandma used to say about Woody Allen when I was a kid (pre-Soon Yi).
bc it turned out he was a self-loving Jew
The "self-hating Jew" trope seems to come up now almost exclusively in the context of Zionism.
And yet it remained one of Roth's preferred ways to describe his own Jewish wife (and remains Ozick's too)
Yeah, it's a very generational thing, which is now an insult narrowed only to mean Jewish critics of Israel.
It was all about assimilation.
Most of the Philip Roth discourse I've heard had to do with him being sexist. Maybe that's a generational thing.
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