Antisemitism in the Gothic and Jewish Horror with Dr Mary Going. A talk for Romancing the Gothic, 2023.
She talks about antisemitic tropes in Dracula, Nosferatu, and Paul Wegener's surviving golem film.
One observation of mine
A similarity (in my view) between Jewish and transgender identity: You feel stereotyped as someone who will do "the Jewish thing" or "the transgender thing," and you want to strike forth on your own path, but you may also be inclined to hide your identity in the process because you feel some threat or because you're imitating people who have felt that threat, and maybe that survival behavior is part of the identity."
One of the speakers, an apparently white man named David Rem, was arrested 33 years ago for riding a train with a suitcase with 40 pounds of cocaine, to which he pled guilty and for which he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He claimed to be Trump's childhood friend; it seems he is not, but that doesn't stop the Trump campaign from lying about the friendship too. See: The strange history behind Trump's “childhood friend”
David Rem is speaking at the MSG rally. But how do they know each other? Marisa Kabas, October 27, 2024
...a speaker who I suppose we must refer to as a 'comedian' referred to Puerto Rico as "a floating island of garbage."
This was, in the eyes of those who control the platforms of communication, and in the halls of power, and in the minds of many comfortable and privileged people, beyond the pale in a way that none of the other things I listed apparently were. I find it interesting to ponder why. You might think that it was seen as beyond the pale because it was racist, but the entire Trump movement has been drenched in the most blatant racism from its inception. You might think that it was seen as offensive because Puerto Rico is a part of the United States, but everyone who was attacked from that stage represents some part of the United States. I think it was seen as offensive because there are a lot of voting Puerto Rican citizens living in swing states, so this particular instance of racist hate disrupted the one thing the press actually seems to think matters: the horse race of the election. It's not that it was racist or hateful or prefigured violence and death for real people—these sort of things are just business as usual—no, it's that it might actually swing the race, which means it was a gaffe.
All over the place, Republicans and journalists scrambled to walk it back and restore balance to the Force. When a Democrat makes a gaffe, the thing to do is report on it for several weeks in massive fonts. When a Republican makes a gaffe, the thing to do is to find a Democratic gaffe to counter it, and if one can't be procured, to make one up."
