{"id":111833,"date":"2017-01-16T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111833"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:16:20","slug":"somewhere-on-the-upper-east-side-a-jewish-woman-has-a-neo-nazi-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111833","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere on the Upper East Side, a Jewish Woman Has a Neo-Nazi Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forward<\/a>: News broke over the weekend that a prominent neo-Nazi troll going by the name Mike Enoch was not a disgruntled grassroots white supremacist coming out of a part of the country with few Jews and a vivid imagination about what The Jew might be like, but rather a dude living in the Upper East Side (!) with his Jewish wife (!!!) Big if true as the saying goes.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, this is upsetting to think about from the perspective of\u2026 well, of the Jewish woman somewhere uptown, married to a man whose secret computer activities are up there among the worst of what one could imagine. On the other, it\u2019s not exactly surprising that an anti-Semite might either make an exception for one Jewish woman or (as in Pierre Drieu la Rochelle\u2019s 1939 novel Gilles) not even. Which, again, shouldn\u2019t really surprise us. After all, it\u2019s never assumed that a man with a wife or girlfriend couldn\u2019t possibly be sexist. Nor, for that matter, should it be assumed that in every man lurks a violent misogynist, so I wouldn\u2019t make the leap that some 19th century French Jewish newspaper writers did (in what was in some ways but oh, not all, a very different context) and warn that when intermarriages get rocky (which, in these warning stories, it was assumed they would), out will pour the non-Jewish spouse\u2019s latent anti-Semitism. Given the sheer weirdness of the online \u201calt-right\u201d, it\u2019s always possible that a man who on the surface would appear to be a good Jewish husband (or wife!) is behind some of those memes as well.<\/p>\n

As for the Upper East Side part\u2026 What this suggests is that someone can be a raging anti-Semite (or perform raging anti-Semitism, as if there\u2019s a difference) despite having had day-to-day exposure with Jewish people. Once again, this is upsetting for anyone who felt safe, as a Jew in an area with many Jews, knowing at least that they were unlikely to be anyone\u2019s First Jew, to whom it\u2019s now occurring that the alt-right menace could be in front of you on line at Citarella. But it\u2019s not surprising. Goodness knows there\u2019s anti-black racism in parts of the US where black people live. Hate is everywhere. Exposure to the fact that members of all identity groups are human beings ought to be enough, but sadly, all too often, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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