STARTREK: The FERENGI: anti-Semitic characters? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 281483 United States 09/19/2007 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When I think of the Ferengi, I think of the fat, balding, overweight and greedy neocon/chickenhawk Americans [the average hardworking American excluded]. These people are less about hard work and more about living off the hard work of others. That's Ferengi for you. PROFFFFFIT! It's not about race anymore... it's about a way of thinking. Dump this nonsense that is weighing you down, because most of us can agree with you if we are all together in saying that this way of thinking is ruining the world. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 300740 South Korea 09/20/2007 07:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I remember when this assertion first came up. It was Jewish groups who actually pointed it out. Up to then, no one even thought of it, or at least mentioned it. Afterwards, the writers actually made the Ferengi almost a "regular" on the show. So much for Jewish influence in Hollywood! |
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REASON User ID: 140243 United States 09/20/2007 08:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | so? Jews can't make fun of themselves now??? don't jews control hollywood, the star trek franchise, and aren't most of the cast jews??? gimme a fucking break! truth hurts? maybe jews should look at themselves and see what they get to be in their next life...a snivelling, ugly, ferengi space jew. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 300507 United States 09/20/2007 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Ferengi were disgusting little creatures, more like harmless funny villains. I heard about the noise being made that they were supposed be depicting Jews. However, no other race, to my knowledge, ever complained that one of the alien races on Startrek were supposed be depicting present day human races. I suppose being over-sensitive can create a problem where there is none. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 284138Klingons were black people, notice they are angry and fight all the time, and are brown. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 300813 United States 09/20/2007 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am not reading this shit, only stopping in to comment on the title. Who gives a rats ass about the term 'anti-semitic'. It's only placed in society to make people feel bad. It's redundant, just as well say 'racism'... And anytime a government is criminal, people will say "those fucking criminals". Truth makes someone defined? I think not. In Startrek Deep Space 9, the characters called the Ferengi were called ant-semitic because they closely depicted the stereotype of Jews. They were called "Space Jews" because they resembled both the physical and cultural stereotypes of Jews. WHAT this true or was it calling a race card? Read on: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 300553from: [link to www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca] Partial quote: Bernardi also explains that Star Trek fans have argued on the electronic mailing list that the Ferengi are comparable to Jews while other fans object to the racist implications of these comparisons. The point of this current study is not to argue that the Ferengi are or are not consciously patterned after racist Jewish stereotypes. However, there are some striking similarities between the creators' description and common negative Jewish stereotypes as described by Wilson. Wilson explains that "overtly malevolent and clearly anti-Semitic [stereotypes portray] Jews as pushy, covetous, clannish, ill-man-nered [sic], ruthless, dishonest, mercenary, grasping, overbearing, sloppy, loud, money-loving, and uncouth." (23) Regardless of any direct or indirect connections made by fans between Ferengi and anti-Semitic stereotypes, the fact that the Ferengi are an "othered" race in the Star Trek universe is key to this analysis. |
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Derka User ID: 291940 United States 09/20/2007 08:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to en.wikipedia.org] The Ferengi rules of acquisition. Anti-semitic? Nope. Satirical of stereotypical Jews? Yep. Hilarious? Yep. Ignorance is the root of fear Fear is the kindling of anger War is the bringer of shame But never has the burden lain so heavily upon the victim Rage and desolation Pain and loneliness Isn't it all alarmingly familiar? Hey, hey, hey, silence is a killer. |
Derka User ID: 291940 United States 09/20/2007 09:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't forget the most applicable rule of acquisition to the Ferengi being based on Jews: 34. War is good for business. Ignorance is the root of fear Fear is the kindling of anger War is the bringer of shame But never has the burden lain so heavily upon the victim Rage and desolation Pain and loneliness Isn't it all alarmingly familiar? Hey, hey, hey, silence is a killer. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 292511 United States 09/20/2007 09:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Space jews are here on earth. Ever wonder why the ashkenazim have much genetic dysfunctionality/dis-eases? Watch Icke's interview w/ "Arizona Wilder" and ask yourself who she is talking about coming to earth appox. 6000 years ago. What is the Jewish calendar year? I think it is around 5786 or something like that? Things that make ya' go hmmmm..... |
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