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Beastly Boy

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3. While making overt claims to the contrary, the pemise and plot of this film are demonstrably devoid
Tue Jan 31, 2023, 02:10 PM
Jan 2023

of any direct contact with Jewish experience in America.

Anyone who gets offended by the use of "blackface" in the Jazz Singer or Birth of a Nation, or the portrayal of black servants in Gone with the Wind, or the mockingly simplistic stereotyping of Hollywood's blaxploitation genre, or the awkwardly out-of-place projections of white family values onto a black family in the Cosby Show, should be equally offended by the cartoonish negative (despite occasionally implied claims to the contrary) stereotyping of Jews in this movie.

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