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Description of Goldhanger?

Anti-semitic	3 votes - 75 %
Not anti-semitic	1 vote - 25 %

4 Total Votes

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Literary explorer by johnny (4.00 / 2) #1 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 07:54:36 AM EST

It's good that you read things to the end so you can report back to us. Me, I would have stopped at the excerpt you include above.

I read somewhere that readers or romance novels read one a day. There's an undending demand for that stuff, just as there is for porn. In both cases you would think the available inventory would suffice pretty much forever, but evidently not. Or maybe it's just a speculative bubble.
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Anti-semeticism by ucblockhead (4.00 / 2) #4 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:35:39 AM EST

It's sadly common in 19th century fiction. You'll be reading a perfectly good novel and then bam, there it is like a turd in your soup. It is amazing how sensibilities have changed in a century.
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: I was under the impression by Scrymarch (4.00 / 1) #8 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:07:17 PM EST

That English anti-semitism was still pretty rife if not howling until post-WWII. Haven't really got any reference for it though. George Orwell noted the music hall Jew joke dying off but the Scottish jokes still alive and well in one of his post war newspaper columns.
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Sci-fi weapons by Herring (4.00 / 3) #2 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 08:32:48 AM EST

Why is it that when you see Star Wars type blaster weapons, the "pulse" not only moves slower than light, but significantly slower than a conventional bullet. Probably even slower than a crossbow bolt. That's just rubbish.

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But otherwise by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #3 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 08:46:53 AM EST

How could you parry the bolts with a lightsaber?
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: As embarrassed as I am to admit it ... by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #6 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 12:31:23 PM EST

We, especially tps12, have covered this already; in moderately excruciating detail, be warned.

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Plasma beam? by marvin (4.00 / 1) #7 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 02:22:17 PM EST

Perhaps that could account for the speed?

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Food by ucblockhead (4.00 / 2) #5 Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:38:13 AM EST

Perhaps science will fix the problem with vat-grown meat. I'm not entirely joking about that.
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: quorn. by misslake (4.00 / 1) #9 Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 03:44:34 PM EST

we've already done it.

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Anti-Semitism by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 04:56:11 AM EST

I read a book of diaries from the Mass Observation movement of the postwar period and it was rife in Britain in the 40s and 50s. It seems that the Holocaust didn't enter the country's consciousness until much later, for example, because people just didn't care.

Having said that you expect better from literature, and it's not something I've come across in C20th books before.

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The reason why they didn't care in by jump the ladder (4.00 / 2) #11 Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 06:24:52 AM EST

Immediate post-war Britain probably was they'd been through an extremely hard and difficult time themselves what with the bombing, the uncertainty, the rationing and their sons and husbands being conscripted and killed. Plus it wasn't exactly easy living in austerity post-war Britain where the rationing was even worse than after the war.

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Good explanation ..... by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #12 Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:24:09 AM EST

.... but by the mid 50s it just doesn't cut it as an excuse.

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Rationing only ended in 1954 by R Mutt (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:56:00 AM EST

You don't really recover from having cities flattened , large numbers of young men killed, and massive debt repayments overnight.

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: You can explain it like that. by Tonatiuh (2.00 / 0) #14 Tue May 06, 2008 at 03:24:21 AM EST

I will grant you that.
But explaining is not excusing, the rampant anti-Semitism in European societies is something shameful that has still to be fully acknowledged, specially by the triumphant countries in WWII (the history of Jews in France pre WWII is something chilling, and it seems here in the UK the situation was not entirely devoid of problems).

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