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And not a single Gibson ruder!
Published: 17 March, 2011, 16:07
xxxish Journal editor Rob Eshman proposes measuring severity of anti-Semitic remarks in “Gibsons”
TAGS: Human rights, Mass media
Anti-Semitism has suddenly sprung back clattering in the media’s rattle bag, aided by a number of recent showbiz contributors. xxxish Journal editor Rob Eshman takes the assault back to the offenders with a scale to measure anti-Semitic remarks.
With French designer John Galliano revealing his not all too secret love for Hitler in a YouTube video and then spouting anti-Semitic remarks at a couple in a café and "Two and a Half Men" producer Chuck Lorre acquiring a new nickname of Chaim Levine in an outburst by Charlie Sheen, we seem to be facing a new surge of anti-Semitism in the Old and New World.
xxxish Journal's Rob Eshman seems to have had enough of it. He has decided to take the matter seriously, so to speak, and worked out a whole new one-to-ten scale to divide inoffensive babble from real racist offense.
The proposed new measurement unit is… a Gibson. Hollywood's Mr. Mel Gibson has often been discontent with a variety of every day notions: gays, African Americans, Latinos and women, Eshman justifies. As for his anti-Semitic views, Mr. Gibson told the police after one especially influenced drive, "the xxxs are responsible for all the wars in the world," as cited by the Los Angeles Times.
In the new rating, as Rob Eshman sees it, one Gibson would be awarded for comments like Woody Allen made in the "Annie Hall" movie imagining he heard someone say "xxx eat?". That is the lowest grade. Various hate-filled online broadcasts from the likes of Al Qaeda would be regarded as top of the scale at ten Gibsons.
So, by this new rating, Charlie Sheen’s antic would come in at two Gibsons, while Galliano would win four Gibsons. Eshman proceeds with his Gibson awarding, nominating five Gibsons to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who claimed that a cabal of powerful xxxish journalists is behind the smearing of WikiLeaks – the statement almost exploded the minds of some of his conspiracy-plot-aligned followers.
Eshman, though, is not yet sure who should do the actual rating. He is leaning toward a Rotten Tomatoes-style aggregator approach, allowing for a website to average out the ratings made by various professionals.
The editor believes that the Gibson scale is not only a witty backlash, but is also quite revealing as to a person's health. As he puts it: "Anti-Semitism is the last stop on the way to Crazy Town. A 1996 study by the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Mortimer Ostow determined that the more one held anti-Semitic beliefs, the more likely he was to harbor psychotic thinking. The opposite was true as well: The less you believe in anti-Semitic stereotypes, the less of a nutter you are."
There could be a chance the scale will catch on. And with today’s tendencies it is just too easy to imagine being sent out of class for getting one Gibson too rude.
So now if you make statements about joos which paints them in a negative light, you must be on your way to the crazy house.
And not a single Gibson ruder!
Published: 17 March, 2011, 16:07
xxxish Journal editor Rob Eshman proposes measuring severity of anti-Semitic remarks in “Gibsons”
TAGS: Human rights, Mass media
Anti-Semitism has suddenly sprung back clattering in the media’s rattle bag, aided by a number of recent showbiz contributors. xxxish Journal editor Rob Eshman takes the assault back to the offenders with a scale to measure anti-Semitic remarks.
With French designer John Galliano revealing his not all too secret love for Hitler in a YouTube video and then spouting anti-Semitic remarks at a couple in a café and "Two and a Half Men" producer Chuck Lorre acquiring a new nickname of Chaim Levine in an outburst by Charlie Sheen, we seem to be facing a new surge of anti-Semitism in the Old and New World.
xxxish Journal's Rob Eshman seems to have had enough of it. He has decided to take the matter seriously, so to speak, and worked out a whole new one-to-ten scale to divide inoffensive babble from real racist offense.
The proposed new measurement unit is… a Gibson. Hollywood's Mr. Mel Gibson has often been discontent with a variety of every day notions: gays, African Americans, Latinos and women, Eshman justifies. As for his anti-Semitic views, Mr. Gibson told the police after one especially influenced drive, "the xxxs are responsible for all the wars in the world," as cited by the Los Angeles Times.
In the new rating, as Rob Eshman sees it, one Gibson would be awarded for comments like Woody Allen made in the "Annie Hall" movie imagining he heard someone say "xxx eat?". That is the lowest grade. Various hate-filled online broadcasts from the likes of Al Qaeda would be regarded as top of the scale at ten Gibsons.
So, by this new rating, Charlie Sheen’s antic would come in at two Gibsons, while Galliano would win four Gibsons. Eshman proceeds with his Gibson awarding, nominating five Gibsons to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who claimed that a cabal of powerful xxxish journalists is behind the smearing of WikiLeaks – the statement almost exploded the minds of some of his conspiracy-plot-aligned followers.
Eshman, though, is not yet sure who should do the actual rating. He is leaning toward a Rotten Tomatoes-style aggregator approach, allowing for a website to average out the ratings made by various professionals.
The editor believes that the Gibson scale is not only a witty backlash, but is also quite revealing as to a person's health. As he puts it: "Anti-Semitism is the last stop on the way to Crazy Town. A 1996 study by the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Mortimer Ostow determined that the more one held anti-Semitic beliefs, the more likely he was to harbor psychotic thinking. The opposite was true as well: The less you believe in anti-Semitic stereotypes, the less of a nutter you are."
There could be a chance the scale will catch on. And with today’s tendencies it is just too easy to imagine being sent out of class for getting one Gibson too rude.
So now if you make statements about joos which paints them in a negative light, you must be on your way to the crazy house.
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