an unexamined factor of antisemitism on the left is a kind of left bohemianism: "jews", jewish institutions and even the taboo of antisemitism itself are seen to represent bourgeois respectability, which is detestable and worth shocking in itself
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actually this exists on the right as well, in so far as the extreme right is its own kind of cultural revolt
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I was going to comment along that line. It's on both sides of the political spectrum. Because liberalism (philosophical liberalism in the broadest sense) has made anti-Semitism a taboo, breaking that taboo is a way to signal anti-systems politics: vice signalling
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this was also sort of the case way back when to, hopefully will address this when i get to Céline
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As you probably know, there's an interesting example of this involving Allen Ginsburg and Lionel Trilling.
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There are multiple interpretations of the event but here are the facts.pic.twitter.com/W1WGLt2klq
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It was a kind of callow undergraduate thing to do and obviously done in a very ironic way, but, yes, not a good look. Diane Trilling wrote about this in an essay on Ginsberg & her husband.
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That story may explain my father’s weird attitude to Ginsberg — though I seem to remember him once praising Kaddish.
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