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[maddoggirl]

First off, a very tiny bit of introduction, seeing as I just got accepted into this community, which, by the way, I think is brilliant and crazy interesting.
I'm a 17 year old goyeh living in the south of England. The Jewish community around here totals approximately zero, but I am completely in love with the Jewish religion and culture. Add to

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A microcosm of this comm

[miriam_heddy]

Another person jumping in with thanks for that link.

When she writes, "I had not only bought, but invested heavily in those age-old stereotypes and their evil perpetuator, television. I was deeply disappointed in myself," I think she was reflecting some of the weirdness that's gone on in this comm since we came online.

I think many of us Jews watching TV are juggling both our internalized antisemitism with our desire to see ourselves, in some way, reflected on TV. So what we're left with is a strange, sometimes self-sabotaging desire to see even a twisted, antisemitic shadow of ourselves, having long ago given up on seeing the real thing.