{"id":1829090,"date":"2023-01-30T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829090"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:41:43","slug":"you-people-is-so-aggressively-stupid-its-difficult-to-be-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-people-is-so-aggressively-stupid-its-difficult-to-be-offended\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You People\u2019 Is So Aggressively Stupid, It\u2019s Difficult To Be Offended"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-people-is-so-aggressively-stupid-its-difficult-to-be-offended%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Honest self-observation is the foundation of some of the most entertaining humor, and certainly some of the greatest Jewish humor. Perhaps we could produce more culturally relevant, irreverent output on race relations. \u201cYou People,\u201d Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris wrote it pretending to be such an effort. It is a millennial version. \u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner\u201d \u2014 which is to say, intellectually, emotionally, and artistically vacuous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou People\u201d is the story of a love-starved Jewish man named Ezra, played by Hill, and his black Muslim fianc\u00e9, Amira, played by the talented Lauren London. They can make it work. They can&#8217;t if their parents interfere.<\/p>\n<p>We learn very early in the movie that Jews over the age of 40 are either sexual deviants or drooling idiots, American Jewish success is grounded in generational wealth rather than work and tradition, and Jewish culture \u2014 insofar as it even exists \u2014 is based on materialism. We first meet Ezra\u2019s family at a Yom Kippur service, where older congregants played by Hal Linden (born, Harold Lipshitz, a child of poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrants) and the once-great Richard Benjamin act like depraved nincompoops. And when Ezra is set up by a woman from his family\u2019s temple, she is, naturally, turned off by his lack of concern over money and status.<\/p>\n<p>Amira is not possessed by these greedy fears. Ezra is encouraged by her to quit his job. \u201cfinance\u201d \u2014 boy, everyone hates those guys! \u2014 to pursue his dream of being <em>a podcaster<\/em>. Ezra\u2019s business partner, an androgynous lesbian woman of color, is, unlike his bumbling parents, a font of deep wisdom and reliable advice. Ezra, the product of privilege, listens to his partner\u2019s pseudointellectual identitarian gibberish and learns great lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The parents are the ones who prevent the couple from moving forward with their wedding plans. Ezra is from an insecure Jewish family. His members obsequiously and hamfistedly scream at each other to show their openness about Amira. Shelley, played by Julia Louis\u00adDreyfus, is a bumbling mother. She is perpetually offending Amira and her family by either good-intentioned overreacting to imaginary racist slights or by saying things she shouldn\u2019t. David Duchovny, who plays Ezra\u2019s dad, a hip-hop-loving doctor, doesn\u2019t have the intellectual capacity to say anything interesting. They are probably just like you and racist without even realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Amira\u2019s parents, Akbar and Fatima, are dignified and successful. They are played by Eddie Murphy, Nia Long and Louis Farrakhan. This could have been a funny premise if the movie hadn\u2019t been so cowardly. However, antisemitism has been dismissed as an eccentric view. While Ezra\u2019s parents keep making far-fetched faux pas about race, Amira\u2019s parents praise a Holocaust denier and accuse Jews of being slave traders. Both of these positions are equally offensive. (Producers would have to pair these two positions with a family if they really wanted to make a film about similar offensive positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just a bunch of cartoon composites of angry social media cliches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1829093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[16128,5732,6550,10448,4370,7119,6540],"class_list":["post-1829090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-aggressively","tag-difficult","tag-its","tag-offended","tag-people","tag-stupid","tag-you"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}