Comedy and Antisemitism — and Dave Chappelle

One idea Dave Chappelle insinuated.

Jews and the Dearth of the Cool

I’ll be frank if not funny. American Jewish culture has never been cool culture. Over the course of the twentieth century, it has been greatly politically engaged and outsized in its intellectual and cultural influence, but it has never been cool. Jews often attached themselves to cool culture, from jazz to the counterculture to…