Edelman goes long on his blockbuster HBO special, Jewish art, and what the Jonathan Glazer Oscar speech controversy really means.
It’s a place he has great affection for, to be clear. “Boston is probably the most progressive place in the United States, and also extremely regressive,” he says on this week’s Little Gold Men. “It’s extremely money and working class. It’s extremely Jewish and not Jewish. It’s extremely urban and also, just a few miles outside of it, ex-urban and then downright agrarian. It is a really special, strange, wonderful, awful, intellectual, dumb place.
How persecuted are we? And the other side of that coin is like, “I’m persecuted, so nobody can ever get mad at me.” Which just shuts down any nuance or any progress. A good question for people is, what is more inappropriate? To offer people ultimate grace? Or to offer them a little grace? Or to offer them no accountability? Or to offer them more accountability? What is the actual right thing to do? Because everyone likes to commend me: “You humanize these white nationalists.
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