Disproportionate Jewish response in Warsaw ghetto uprising decried by world leaders

The Jews didn’t start using excessive force against their neighbors yesterday. This problem has been going on for some time, as shown by the front page of the New York Times of May 10, 1943, which you can see by clicking here. For more on this, including the text of the headlined articles, visit the People’s Cube website.

A reader writes:

You have to be kidding. That NY Times cover page is a total fabrication.

You must know this.

LA replies:

YOU have to be kidding. What makes you imagine that I think this is real? What do you need as indication that a person sending or publishing an obvious parody knows that it is a parody? The word “PARODY” stuck at the top in huge letters, as in The Weekly Standard?

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Evidently there are two levels of misunderstanding here. First there are (shocking as this is) people who actually think that the obvious parody of the New York Times front page is real. Then there are people, such as the reader quoted above, who know that the parody is a parody, but who, being aware that some people do not realize that it is a parody, think that I am among that benighted group, because I did not label the parody as a parody but presented it “straight.”

See my exchange with Ruth King, who sends out about 30 articles a day via e-mail, and sometimes sends my articles):

RSK to LA:

LARRY: CAREFUL THAT FRONT PAGE WAS A SPOOF….IT NEVER HAPPENED BUT WAS USED AS IRONY

LA to RSK:

WELL RUTH OF COURSE IT’S A SPOOF. MEIN GOTT IN HIMMEL.

DON’T TELL ME YOU’RE LIKE THE WEEKLY STANDARD WHICH FEELS IT HAS TO LABEL A PARODY AS A “PARODY,” WHICH DESTROYS THE WHOLE EFFECT.

RSK to LA:

Unfortunately too many people who got that spoof thought it was a real headline…..I sent it around a lot, so in this case I think one should label it a parody….

LA to RSK:

Then the world is lost. How could anyone with an IQ over room temperature look at that front page and think that it was real?

I will not label it as a parody. People who think that that front page is real are beyond help.

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A liberal website, esoterically.net, reproduced the New York Times spoof and commented:

This graphic, purportedly showing [italics added] the front page of the New York Times published on May 10, 1943, is currently making the rounds of the rightie weblogs. The scary thing is that I think several of them really believe it is real…

The phrase “purportedly showing” suggests that conservatives are presenting the page as an actual New York Times! These people also don’t have the concept of a parody! It’s amazing. The intellect is vanishing, vanishing …

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 23, 2006 11:36 PM | Send