Interesting insights on Krusty being the majority of Jewish representation on The Simpsons…on the flip side Mr. Smithers is basically a Rothschild despite not actually being Jewish. Much to consider.
You know in 2015 I would have called that the Jew writers trying to pin everything on WASPs, but looking back those Buzzfeed Bergs who turned me antisemitic were literally all Krusty except somehow even more embarrassing. Brooks and Cohen didn't miss.
You know, I had quick a footnote in the post where I specifically mentioned them in a list of some other types and I had to admit I don't know. The ethnically German and Scotch-Irish (who I mention here because I am those things, even if I'm Irish by adoption) kind of folded into the WASPs even though the Scotch-Irish being near the bottom are very Islander adjacent in that spectrum. Hispanic whites are I think kind of their own guy, really-- something like the WASP of a different empire but since the Spanish Colonial empire kind of got mogged by the English one and honestly integrated the indigenous culture/better in the long run I think (not that Spanish Colonial brutality was any joke; I could be one damn ignorant gringo here) they kind of.... have Islander adjacent styles. So their own thing, but hard call. I seriously feel one of their own would be the best to really outline themselves. (Easiest lazy-ass answer though? Catholic = Islander.)
Kind of missed my chance to be the Alpha Nerd, though.
I think the reason Boomer and Millennials are so on top all the time is they're larger generations--the Boomers hung around too long because medicine was better, and then as they finally age out of power there is a larger group of Millennials taking over leadership positions.
Fake-J's statement that men have an intrinsic competitive streak--sure, but they said the same about women shortly before the rise of the women's movement. I think as chivalry vanishes from memory and young men get more resentful they will start to band together too.
oh man, this one's really hitting all my xenniall receptors, so fun. Almost 3 hrs though! going to have to save the rest for later
Interesting insights on Krusty being the majority of Jewish representation on The Simpsons…on the flip side Mr. Smithers is basically a Rothschild despite not actually being Jewish. Much to consider.
You know in 2015 I would have called that the Jew writers trying to pin everything on WASPs, but looking back those Buzzfeed Bergs who turned me antisemitic were literally all Krusty except somehow even more embarrassing. Brooks and Cohen didn't miss.
Fake J rules
Do you think white Hispanics code as Ellis Islanders or as something else? This was fun btw.
imo Tejanos are WASP-adjacent and Cubanos honorary Ellis Islanders
You know, I had quick a footnote in the post where I specifically mentioned them in a list of some other types and I had to admit I don't know. The ethnically German and Scotch-Irish (who I mention here because I am those things, even if I'm Irish by adoption) kind of folded into the WASPs even though the Scotch-Irish being near the bottom are very Islander adjacent in that spectrum. Hispanic whites are I think kind of their own guy, really-- something like the WASP of a different empire but since the Spanish Colonial empire kind of got mogged by the English one and honestly integrated the indigenous culture/better in the long run I think (not that Spanish Colonial brutality was any joke; I could be one damn ignorant gringo here) they kind of.... have Islander adjacent styles. So their own thing, but hard call. I seriously feel one of their own would be the best to really outline themselves. (Easiest lazy-ass answer though? Catholic = Islander.)
Great stuff. I'm the same age as Fake J.
Kind of missed my chance to be the Alpha Nerd, though.
I think the reason Boomer and Millennials are so on top all the time is they're larger generations--the Boomers hung around too long because medicine was better, and then as they finally age out of power there is a larger group of Millennials taking over leadership positions.
Fake-J's statement that men have an intrinsic competitive streak--sure, but they said the same about women shortly before the rise of the women's movement. I think as chivalry vanishes from memory and young men get more resentful they will start to band together too.
hm born in ‘78, Simpsons always seemed retarded and annoyingly low-class coded to me. Watched about four episodes.