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...COBURN Republican Congressman loudly chastises nudity and violence in Schindler's List...
...called Pacheco a "Schindler of East Timor", referring to the well-known German businessperson credited with saving the lives of about 1,000 German Jews during the Holo-caust...
...November 27 editorial, "Demon's Humorless Antics," Justin C. Danilewitz faults a recent piece in Demon, written by Matthew A. Greenbaum '00, for its reference to "Schindler's List." Danilewitz writes that Greenbaum's fiction piece, which satirizes the Crimson Key Society at one point by showing the organization making jokes about "Schindler's List," is guilty of "question[ing]" the "tragedy" and "seriousness" of the Holocaust. Danilewitz goes so far as to say, "It is a sad testimonial to the legacy of our First Amendment that such material is considered to be imbued with enough expressive value...
...serious topics? We should say no, humor does not have to avoid all weighty issues. We feel that what matters is not simply what topics one deals with but how one deals with them. We also believe that it would have been impossible to have edited out the Schindler's List segment without the piece having lost some of its effectiveness...
...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 may have caused some confusion, but we stand by our decision to print the piece as it appeared in our issue. --Jeremy Friedman '98,Demon Vice-President; Matt...