You Have to Have Jews: Difference between revisions

Of course, like so many others, this rather sensitive and in no way value-judgemental trope began as an inversion of another trope. There was a time when working in media was one of the few options for ambitious, intelligent, well-educated people who happened to be Jewish. Anything considered to be academic or high art would be under considerable pressure to appear "respectable," and cater to the segregationist views of the time. Anyone who was not (or could not pass for) white, American- or British-born, heterosexual, Christian (most likely Protestant), and often times male might be considered a risk to the company's reputation. Since radical new media, such as [[Film]], [[Radio]], [[Comic Books]] and, later, [[Television]] were [[New Media Are Evil|often callously dismissed as vulgar]], they tended to hire the people no one else would take -- itake—i.e. Jews. Despite the doomsday warnings of segregationist [[Moral Guardians]], new media took off and people who once had to scramble for an employer became part of history. In short, many might say that the Jewish people who ran Hollywood did so because ''they were the ones who built it''. Creative types usually write what they know, and despite the ever-lingering specter of anti-Semitism in the early twentieth century, many writers, directors, producers, etc. most certainly [[Write What You Know|would have passed on their own perspective into their work, intentionally or not]].

* Not explicitly invoked, but [[Last Res0rt]] has shades of this -- threethis—three of the sixteen players on the show are implied to be Jewish (being from [[Space Jews|planet Arael]] and all). The three in question -- Jigsawquestion—Jigsaw, Daisy, and Slick -- areSlick—are also the show's biggest characters.