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Village Voice + New Times = ANTI-SEMITES?
By Jewcy Staff / April 11, 2010
In either a) an egregious act of poor judgement coinciding with the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps or b) a "can you believe the public officials said that?" act of journalism (really – we can’t tell difference here, which is problematic), Michael Lacey, the Executive Editor of Village Voice Media, published THIS in the Phoenix New Times. The actual events and quotes are unfortunately not a joke. To paraphrase: Canadian Jews residing in Pheonix are not surprisingly moneygrubbers and have taken over bank parking lots…blah blah blah…"hook noses"…abortions…"it’s a matter of historical fact that Jews ate Christian babies in the Middle Ages." I wish we were kidding.
Update
Mike Lacey has a checkered past when it comes to saying things that could be deemed racist.
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Wow, that certainly is a terrible thing to write. It doesn’t matter if it was an April Fool’s joke or not. It is this kind of absurdity in writing that gives some newspapers a bad name.
Don’t worry, It is joke or wild fantasy.
Or how about a sharp bit of satire targeting the racist sumbitch sheriff of Maricopa County?
I’m amazed that Michael Lacey’s piece could be mistaken as a “‘can you believe the public officials said that?’ act of journalism.” Not that Joe Arpaio and the white Arizona establishment wouldn’t have said something like that if they felt political capital could be gained by rounding up Canadian Jews. I’d place the blame for widespread confusion about satire on The National Lampoon ceasing publication and becoming the trademark for an uneven series of comedy movies, but to be honest, I’m not sure whether that’s the cause or merely an effect.
Mebbe the timing is just a coincidence. How could Lacey know that the Jewcy Staff would read his piece on 11 April, the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald? The Jewcy Staff’s offense is either crocodile tears or a sign of paranoia. Enough crappy things have happened in Jewish history that any day on the calendar is likely to coincide with a disaster or end of a disaster. Or has riffing on anti-Semitic stereotypes become our “n-word”?
I shouldn’t be surprised. Kinky Friedman was pilloried for putting offensive, racist words into the mouth of an offensive racist in “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore.”
P.S.: I see the Jewcy Staff saw fit to reprint Jeff Crosby’s juif éternel canadien. Very edgy.
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Thanks for pointing out this article. New Times publishing it was certainly an egregious act of craptacular judgement.
I can’t believe this is their idea of an April Fool’s joke (they ran it in their 4/1 issue as this year’s fake piece). I feel like that makes it all the more disturbing. The gross JD Hayworth ‘quote’ at the end about eating babies to end world hunger is, I guess, meant to point us all to Jonathan Swift’s "A Modest Proposal," but if he’s trying to imitate Swift’s satire, he fails. Lacey is hateful, and a hack and all I think he’s succeeded in creating is an environment where it’s alright to get really ugly and violent with your speech, if it’s for the sake of a "joke." I read his piece and all I can see is the anti-Semitism.
I’m off to write a letter to the publisher now.
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