rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (04/12/84)
>>> Did many Non-Jews understand why "Bridgette Loves Bernie," (A CBS >>> television program) was offensive to the Jewish community? Many Jews >>> seem not to understand what is offensive to the Jewish community. >> --- Y. S. Martillo >>...but apparently you do. Thank you for, so often, telling other >>people what their opinions are (or should be). It is a good thing that >>someone with your unbiased and balanced point of view performs this >>worthwhile service. --- Rosen >You are welcome. You did not quote me completely, but I will give a >simple definition of what Jews should consider offensive. >Jews should find offensive the demand or the suggestion that the Jewish >community or Jewish culture should pass out of existence. This has been >the demand or suggestion of many who have been hostile to the Jewish >people for the last 2600 years. Is this acceptable to irreligious Jews? > --- Martillo You may or may not have mistaken my article for an actual note of thanks. It was not. Apparently you are of the school that believes that I, being of Jewish ancestry, have an obligation to preserve the things that *you* believe are important---i.e., Jewish heritage, learning, and lifestyle. I, as an individual, feel no such obligation whatsoever. Those who would attempt to convince people of their "obligations" to their racial/religious/ ethnic groups (/ancestries/heritages/etc.) are often those who are responsible for bloody conflict and violent confrontation between such groups. (And also within them!!) Whether or not those facets of your ideals which I am not interested in live on is not important to me. Whether or not you and others as individuals have the right to pursue those ideals in the future IS important to me. Unless those ideals involve imposing standards on others. *I* think that the notion that Jews are people like everyone else is a positive notion that I like seeing in the media, as long as the portrayal avoids (and preferably debunks) stereotypes. Demanding that an entertainment medium show (at least) one Jew as a serious student of Jewish learning (from Martillo's point of view) is as inane as requiring the portrayal of at least one Muslim as a Shiite, or one Christian as a fundamentalist, etc. -- Those responsible for sacking those people who have just been sacked, have been sacked. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr