1. In 1939 Wyndham Lewis published a little book called "The Jews: Are They Human?" And here we are. https://twitter.com/iamjoonlee/status/800826853242114048 …
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2. Despite deliberately provocative title & Lewis's own history as a fascist, The Jews: Are They Human was a critique of anti-Semitism
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3. White nationalist Richard Spencer claims the Nazi salutes at his speech ere "ironic"https://twitter.com/PJTobia/status/800841004534349824 …
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4. Here's the thing to bear in mind: as Jean Paul Sartre recognized long ago irony & clowning are always part of anti-Semitism.
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5. Sartre's Anti-Semite & Jew (1944), written while Holocaust was at height, very good on how anti-Semites use irony.pic.twitter.com/a4FWDc3CiV
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6. Fascism is a politics of fantasy & insane violence. The fascist uses irony, hyperbole & absurdity as wedge to force open these forces
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there could also be a nice fat book about jeet heer reading chyrons for his research. Terrible sentiments to be sure, but Spencer
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was actually referring to "anti-Trump political commentators working for outlets Spencer deemed Jewish-controlled serving as
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But it's characteristic of your type of politics that you end up trying to white wash a Nazi like Spencer.
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don't go 'way mad, Jeet! Let me make it up to you. Here's something to help out with your next piece https://vimeo.com/36878369
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