{"id":69490,"date":"2015-06-10T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69490"},"modified":"2023-09-10T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:47:23","slug":"jj-al-pacino-reopens-debate-over-pro-nazi-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69490","title":{"rendered":"JJ: Al Pacino reopens debate over pro-Nazi celebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/opinion\/article\/al_pacino_reopens_debate_over_pro_nazi_celebs\">From the Jewish Journal<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision by actor Al Pacino to withdraw from a Danish play because its author supported the Nazis during World War II has reopened a long-simmering debate over cultural contributions by individuals whose racial or political views are anathema.<br \/>\nPacino, the Academy Award winning star of such films as The Godfather and Scent of a Woman, pulled out of the Copenhagen production of a play adapted from novel &#8220;Hunger,&#8221; after learning that its author, the late Knut Hamsun, backed the Nazis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How come there&#8217;s no such sanction against celebrities who back communism? Communism killed more people than Nazism. I wonder if it has something to do with the large number of Jews (though a distinct minority among Jews) who supported communism. By 1950, a million American Jews were either communists or socialists (estimated sociologist Nathan Glazar in 1966). <\/p>\n<p>This supposedly &#8220;long-simmering debate over cultural contributions by individuals whose racial or political views are anathema&#8221; seems to break down to whether or not someone or something was\/is good for the cool kids. Is that humanity&#8217;s ultimate litmus test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Jewish Journal: The decision by actor Al Pacino to withdraw from a Danish play because its author supported the Nazis during World War II has reopened a long-simmering debate over cultural contributions by individuals whose racial or political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=69490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151709,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69490\/revisions\/151709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}