Comments on: Harper Lee: All the honors http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:07:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913/comment-page-1#comment-29429 Meryl Yourish Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:32:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913#comment-29429 Charles, I've always taken that particular incident as a comment on the idiot teacher, who is both racist and anti-Semitic. You just know that the second she got the chance, she'd go on about the Jews in a negative way. I never took that as a nod by Lee to casual Semitism of the Depression-era south. In any case, you may want to read the book again now that you're no longer 14, and get a better understanding of it. Are you really going to slam Lee for being friends with Gore Vidal? Vidal may be a son of a bitch, and you may not agree with his politics, but how is it a crime to be friends with him? It's not like he's a mass-murdering piece of shit like, say, Yasser Arafat. Whom Jimmy Carter counted among his friends. If you're going to tear down Ms. Lee, you're going to have to come up with a lot more than what you've got so far. Charles, I’ve always taken that particular incident as a comment on the idiot teacher, who is both racist and anti-Semitic. You just know that the second she got the chance, she’d go on about the Jews in a negative way. I never took that as a nod by Lee to casual Semitism of the Depression-era south. In any case, you may want to read the book again now that you’re no longer 14, and get a better understanding of it.

Are you really going to slam Lee for being friends with Gore Vidal? Vidal may be a son of a bitch, and you may not agree with his politics, but how is it a crime to be friends with him? It’s not like he’s a mass-murdering piece of shit like, say, Yasser Arafat. Whom Jimmy Carter counted among his friends.

If you’re going to tear down Ms. Lee, you’re going to have to come up with a lot more than what you’ve got so far.

]]> By: Charles Polak http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913/comment-page-1#comment-29423 Charles Polak Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:01:56 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913#comment-29423 I remember when reading "Mockingbird" at age 14 that I didn't like Lee's attributing the statement that Jews were "the best people in the world", and tears over their persecution in Germany, to a(n anti-Black) racist teacher. I already had a feel for the "new antisemitism", often so sympathetic to darker "victim" peoples - and isn't Lee friends with one of their worst, Gore Vidal? Possibly, like the late Patricia Highsmith, Lee may be a link between the old and the new in this "distinguished" tradition... I remember when reading “Mockingbird” at age 14 that I didn’t like Lee’s attributing the statement that Jews were “the best people in the world”, and tears over their persecution in Germany, to a(n anti-Black) racist teacher. I already had a feel for the “new antisemitism”, often so sympathetic to darker “victim” peoples – and isn’t Lee friends with one of their worst, Gore Vidal? Possibly, like the late Patricia Highsmith, Lee may be a link between the old and the new in this “distinguished” tradition…

]]> By: John M http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913/comment-page-1#comment-29413 John M Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:07:26 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913#comment-29413 She should get a Nobel, in my opinion. She should get a Nobel, in my opinion.

]]> By: Paul http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913/comment-page-1#comment-29405 Paul Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:14:19 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/10/30/3913#comment-29405 Congratulations to Ms. Lee !! Congratulations to Ms. Lee !!

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