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P.S. (not T.S.) Elliot

BTW "I saw the movie and did not find it antisemitic" is not an argument from ignorance despite my perhaps poor choice of words which gave you that opening. I am not ignorant of it having been antisemitic, I have knowledge of it NOT being antisemitic, namely from having seen it, which many of those who are calling it antisemitic ("less ignorant" than I, apparently?) haven't. If I see your red shirt and say "gee that doesn't look blue to me" am I "arguing from ignorance"?

I've heard and read many of the arguments as to why The Passion is antisemitic and found them bogus, like I said. Interestingly, it's not necessary for me rebut those arguments here, because none such have been advanced by anyone, not in this post nor in the prior post you linked. There is an argument that "Matthew"'s author, or at least the later author/inserter of a certain infamous line, had antisemitic intent, and an argument that some chick named Emmerich was obsessed with antisemitic thoughts, neither of which I dispute. There is no argument, there or here, that the film "The Passion of the Christ" is antisemitic. There is an assertion. Onus is not on me but on the asserters. Which will be - or should be - hard to do without having seen the movie.

It's easy to do however if your standard for antisemitism is "if it's a passion play [=tells the story of JC's last day] it's antisemitic".

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