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[sovay]

There is measles in Boston. For the second time in three months. Everyone please check on the state of your MMR.

The new Harley Quinn TV series appears to have decided to go big with the anti-Semitism or go home and they didn't go home. I had not actually encountered the phrase "Jewish lightning" for insurance arson before. You learn something new every day?

Courtesy of ladymondegreen, a thing I am glad to have learned: "How to put on a jumper without disturbing your cat." I am also fond of this hammered dulcimer cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."

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[larryhammer]

Sweet dulcimer there.

Doesn’t make up for the second paragraph of course. Grr.

[dewline]

There's a set of reasons why I sometimes call Gotham City "the City of Yesterday" in the same way that Metropolis is publicized as "the City of Tomorrow". Look at the stories centred on Renee Montoya during her time as part of the cast of the comics series Gotham Central written by Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker. Her treatment by many fellow police - most such officers were not fellow members of the Major Crimes Unit that she was part of at the time - after being outed by a smitten and vengeful Harvey "Two-Face" Dent as lesbian was Less Than Kind. The architecture mirrors the bigotries there.

[moon_custafer]

I had not actually encountered the phrase "Jewish lightning" for insurance arson before. You learn something new every day?

Oh ffs. As I saw somebody comment yesterday “unfortunately, being one of Today’s Lucky 10,000 applies to bad stuff too.”

[asakiyume]

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" seems very suited to this treatment! Or maybe it's that hearing this makes me realize how perfect it is. Beautiful.

Meanwhile, re: the Harley Quinn series, what the hell. What the hell?!

[gwynnega]

I felt my blood pressure going down when I watched that cat/sweater video.

But ugh, measles and anti-Semitism.

[brigdh]

The new Harley Quinn TV series appears to have decided to go big with the anti-Semitism or go home and they didn't go home.
Wow, that's awful. I'd never heard the phrase 'Jewish lightning', either. "Go big" is the right phrase; that is a lot of anti-Semitism for six episodes of a cartoon. I mean, not that a little anti-Semitism is good either, but they really packed it in, didn't they?


The cat video was very good, though!

[selkie]

Greccchk, grecchk. *displeased throat noises* I regret selling those winged monkeys.

[choco_frosh]

I *think* I'm MMR'd adequately (the Brits are obsessive about those sorts of things) but I'll double check with my GP...

I really don't give an arse about TV, but I *am* sorry that this is filled with antisemitism.

[sholio]

I saw the Harley Quinn thing when someone I follow on Tumblr reblogged that post. I don't know if it's naive to be so shocked at something that blatant on TV, but I am. That's horrendous.

[vass]

I'd never heard that term either. It seems very unnecessary.

The jumper cat and the hammered dulcimer were good.

[mrissa]

It would be bad on any series, but isn't Harley canonically Jewish herself? To me this means an extra layer of responsibility in choosing and supervising staff writers and therefore an extra layer of OH HELL NO at every level. You have the responsibility not to hand ANY series over to blatant anti-Semites--but especially a series WITH A CANONICALLY JEWISH PROTAG WTF.

[sbrackett]

I will be in Boston very soon and I think my two doses is sufficient? Of MMR that is. I sure hope so.