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...Danilewitz, however, falls into precisely this trap when he uses the Crown Heights incident to encourage Jews to reevaluate their relationship with African-Americans and "realign their traditionally liberal political allegiance...
...piece this past Wednesday, Justin C. Danilewitz offers a powerful condemnation of the anti-Semitic murder of Yankel Rosenbaum. Like Mr. Danilewitz, we mourn Yankel Rosenbaum's death and believe we must fight anti-Semitism wherever it arises. We also agree with Danilewitz that people should not be attacked for the actions of other individuals within their community...
Justin C. Danilewitz is a sophomore living in Currier House...
Demon's editors, though, would like to make clear that the reason we decided to print Greenbaum's piece without further revision has to do with the way in which the piece tears the humor found in the fictional depiction of CKS insensitively. Danilewitz realizes this. "Rest assured that I did not take this dialogue at face value," he says. He goes on to say that he knows that the author of the humor piece clearly had not intended to make light of the Holocaust. Yet Danilewitz still feels that the piece shouldn't have been printed because "There...
...Danilewitz would be right to point out that, in some cases, our popular culture threatens to trivialize the Holocaust with jokes which show no awareness of the tragedy of the Holocaust and how seriously it must be taken. But in Greenbaum's piece, the humor arose entirely from the thought that here, in this instance, the CKS is fictitiously shown making jokes where jokes are so obviously inappropriate--making jokes about solemn scenes in Schindler's List. Greenbaum's humor relied on its dramatization of the idea that the Holocaust is not a joking matter. We regret that this...