Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Watch these cowards run from the same Big Lie they long spread to foment insurrection (and will continue to spread, when the cameras are off and they’re safely ensconced in some insurrectionist hidey-hole). Simple rule of voting: no insurrectionists in government—ever—full stop. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Watch these cowards run from the same Big Lie they long spread to foment insurrection (and will continue to spread, when the cameras are off and they’re safely ensconced in somw insurrectionist hidey-hole). Simple rule of voting: no insurrectionists in government—ever—full stop. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Sometimes major media writes a navel-gazing story about a game of baseball being played inside a game of baseball. But sometimes it’s a game of baseball being played inside a game of baseball being played inside a game of baseball. And *sometimes* it’s a game of baseball being pl — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@SceneAlot I agree it’s often angry, and that smacking can in some circumstances be very effective art. But when ATLANTA smacks ineffectually or smacks repeatedly at the same targets, or smacks in a lazy or inexact or unsophisticated or unintelligent way, it deserves the criticism it gets. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johncdrake Sorry, I should’ve said that you also attacked me by saying I was being racist. But candidly I took that as you having the freedom to make your argument, which is the very same freedom you denied me when I rejected your inaccurate claims about Black-Jewish relations historically. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@johncdrake And the weird thing about you calling me thin-skinned is that I have repeatedly *copped* to being highly sensitive. Right here on Twitter. So what even *was* that dig? Will you not even give someone credit for speaking the truth about their *own* difficult history? I mean, Jesus. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@johncdrake John, I did not attack you. Ron DeSantis says that talking about difficult history is racist. The history of Black-Jewish relations (cf. “Hymietown”) is *exactly* how I’ve described it. You called speaking that history racist. The only attack here was you calling me thin-skinned. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@Methystic I have indeed. It’s probably one of the reasons that The Queen’s Gambit has been watched in my household five times. Because it pushes back. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@7277067 I think it’s important that both you and I understand that what you’re objecting to is my well-considered feelings—and you’re objecting to my feelings from a perspective that is not Jewish. You have every right to do that, but maybe you also see that you’re making my point here? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@7277067 I just watched an episode from *this season* in which a rich Jew literally buys a black man—indisputably deeming himself entitled to Black labor and Black bodies. The scene prominently displays a Star of David right before the virtual slave auction. That too esoteric an example? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@JayLouis @SceneAlot I think that anyone anywhere who has experienced any sort of trauma may someday find themselves reproducing that trauma. I’m speaking from personal experience. So when I discuss these things, I speak my truth *and* try to keep a strong hold on my empathy. It’s just as essential. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Everything coming out of the Kremlin is part of a disgusting web of deceit. But I wonder how many Americans are drawing the line between this web of deceit and the identically disgusting web Putin cast *in the United States* from 2015 to 2022—all of which Trump’s GOP *amplified*. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Imagine for a moment if anything Putin said was true. Imagine if he’d actually annexed this region, and if these dead civilians had actually been Russians. Wouldn’t he have immediately come out and decried the attack on the apartment building—court-martialing all those behind it? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

Putin “annexed” Zaporizhzhia; declared its residents “Russians”; then immediately had his forces *blow up an apartment building* in Zaporizhzhia, killing 14 “Russian” civilians. If Putin doesn’t end up in The Hague, “international law” is even more of a sick joke than I thought. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@johncdrake It seems you agree with Ron DeSantis that knowing history is racist, didn’t see that coming but okay — PolitiTweet.org

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@richardblock 💯 — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@JayLouis @SceneAlot It is important to me to underscore that I know how complex this all is. Black-Jewish relations have been incredibly fraught for many decades now, and I would be ignoring all that I and others know of that history to make any sort of blithe critique of contemporary Black art. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@BStewart27 The Jewish tradition in America is to aid the vulnerable. Period, full stop. Jewish moguls in Hollywood and Jews who are thoroughly blind to the suffering of the Palestinians aren’t reflective of any American Jewish community I have ever been in or known—and I’m in my mid-40s. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@SceneAlot That said, I well understand that the exact same tweet as the one I just wrote above could be made about racism and America. My point, I suppose, is that I have higher expectations for ATLANTA than America. And it seems pretty clear to me that Donald Glover does as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SceneAlot I think ATLANTA is fantastic. It is just never easy to be hurt and let down by what you love, especially when nothing that is hurting you or letting you down is actually contributing to what makes the work fantastic and essential. It is all just extraneous, embarrassing noise. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@wookietim I think... there’s something to what you’ve said. Sometimes it seems like he is on a bit of an island creatively, and that is not healthy. The more talented one is, the more dangerous it is to become completely isolated by your own talent. Both great art and great ill can result. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LukeBettencourt @MountClairmont I like the weird. I like the weird a lot. I think it is a critical part of the show. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@danwouldrather1 I have not heard of that show. What channel/service is it on? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@TinMann0715 Yeah, to an extent I guess that’s true—though I’m also not sure that the point of the show is really to play with tropes and stereotypes. I think it’s doing much more interesting work than that, which is why the tropes and stereotypes seem both beside the point and a little lazy. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

@SlickinIL Very fair point. 100%. Hopefully Art gets better over time. I think the only reason I am disappointed with ATLANTA is that to me it is basically the pinnacle of art on television right now. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

It’d be silly to say there should be a Jew in the ATLANTA writers’ room; Jews are in plenty of writers’ rooms. But ATLANTA seems to be what you get when—or so it appears—no one on the writing team has ever had any discourse with any non-rich, non-powerful Jew. As I said: cringe. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I understand the project of ATLANTA has nothing to do with Judaism, and that’s AOK. But it does concern race, power and money—and the frequency with which Jews appear as the embodiment of the operations of white supremacy is unnerving. They’re never regular folks—always cartoons. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I have no doubt that there are many Jewish moguls in the entertainment industry. But middle-class Jews living anywhere besides New York City or California or West Palm Beach are basically invisible. So instead we get the Jews of ATLANTA, who are all—candidly—creepy rich turds. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I once saw current National Book Award nominee John Keene write about the special powers Jews have in America. Now Kanye has gone antisemitic in DMs with Diddy. Powerful, talented Black men often inadvertantly expose just how far Black-Jewish relations have to go. And it’s *far*. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I think ATLANTA is the best show on TV right now. But any time a Jewish person appears in the series I want to fast forward because it’s instantly cringe city. I’m sure Glover has met many Jewish moguls in Hollywood, but I wonder if he’s met a single Jew anywhere else in America. — PolitiTweet.org