She’s also Ben Shapiro’s cousin, and they hate each other lol
Ben Shapiro having beef with Matilda is not something I ever expected to hear about. Lol
It surprised me the last time I heard about it, then I forgot and got surprised again. :p
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Nah, they robbing me bruh.
She should do a show with Cody Johnston, the world’s top expert on Ben Shapiro. I enjoy observing when facts do not care about Ben’s feelings.
She has. She’s been on even more news. It was great
Do you know which episode?
She’s in SOME MORE NEWS: THE MOVIE for example
Cast
- David Cross (David Cross)
- Macaulay Culkin (Self)
- Cody Johnston (Host)
- Katy Stoll (Katy Stoll)
- Michael Swaim (Cartoon Cody)
- Abigail Thorn (British Cody)
- Mara Wilson (Mara Wilson)
Oh heck thank you
Deserved all the oscars
Thanks, off to see British Cody.
No I do not, sorry
Considering her Twitter name there, not surprised
Well yeah everyone hates ben and ben hates everyone because he’s an idiotic republican man-child.
idiotic republican man-child
Why did you write the same term three times in-a-row?
Hey now, not all idiots are Republicans. Some are tankies!
Well, I’ve never seen Mara Wilson and Daniel Radcliffe in the same room together…
I still contend that Marjorie Taylor Greene is just Dog the Bounty Hunter in drag. I mean, has anyone seen the two of them in the same place at the same time?
Man, I say this a lot and I know it comes across standoffish, but… US ethnic categorizations seem bonkers to me.
What does “half Jewish half Irish” even mean? Isn’t that a Jewish person from Ireland? That would count as fully both things. What are the other two halves?
This is why I have to think about the immigration form for ten minutes each time I get through customs in the US, it’s all “was any of your grandparents a smurf?” and “are you latino and/or lactose intolerant?” and stuff like that. It makes no sense.
What does “half Jewish half Irish” even mean?
One parent is Irish and the other is Jewish.
So what are the religion and nationality of the other parents and why don’t they count?
Jewish is also an ethnicity. That’s why they can be ‘secular’ while still being half Jewish.
In this context Jewish is the ethnicity, Mara actually calls it out in the tweet
In this context Jewish is an ethnicity. Please go look this stuff up
Jews have lived in exile for so long that it created a genetically distinct ethnicity.
Yo. Pro tip: Judaism is the religion. Jewish is the ethnicity. A quick search would have told you that.
Jewish in this context refers to an ethnic group, as does Irish
Or one parent was Irish and Jewish and the other was french and atheist
You can be raised by one Jewish parent and one Other parent and still not be a follower of Judaism. You might still have a Jewish cultural heritage and place in the world despite differing theological views.
If it’s the mother then they are Jewish, if it’s the father they are not
I didn’t know the genes for Judaism were located in the X chromosome.
That’s how they view it
This comes from the religious law. I don’t think it has anything to do with chromosomes. There are still families that traditionally believe that though, despite not being religious. I haven’t met many people who identify as Jewish or partially Jewish due to their father being Jewish though.
People can be ethnically Jewish or religiously Jewish and they are separate identities. Historically, religiously jewish people tended to only marry other religiously jewish people, leading to the formation of a jewish ethnicity over time. For many, these identities are closely intertwined, for others they have both but view them separately. And for many others still, they only fit into one category or the other.
Irish, in contrast, is only an ethnicity but not a religion. (Unless you count certain sects of Celtic Paganism, but that’s usually not what people mean)
If one parent is predominantly of Jewish heritage and the other of Irish heritage, then their child might identify as half-jewish-half-irish.
Genetically speaking, they are likely less than 50% of each because that would imply that each parent was completely and totally 100% their respective ethnicity genetically, which is (if possible) very very unlikely and realistically not 100% strictly defined.
People like to categorize things, including categories. For some, a part of their identity is based on the ethnic categories they fit themselves into, and some group these categories under one subsection of their identity, and assign weights to the different components of that category.
I love the funny things our pattern seeking brains do in order to quantify the unquantifiable and to better establish a sense of belonging and self in this amorphous and crazy society we’re all a part of. What’s really great is that none of what I’ve said is even universally true. It’s just (from my observation) the most common way I’ve seen all these categories combined. If you disagree, you’re completely free to do so, and neither of us are wrong until we start using numbers and statistics in our argument
Wonderfully put, kind internet-stranger-sir. I have done the same observations and conclusions. Now we both can add a +1 on the drawer “this specific observation might be objective reality”. And due to the +1 the unquantifiable became a tiny bit more quantifiable. Even though there is no clear numerical target. Which also makes it totally useless to add a +1 😊
I think the confusing part is that Jewish is considered by most people to be both a religion and an ethnicity.
Yeah I’m still not sure about that.
I think it’s an ethnic group with a religion and sometimes a non ethnic person join them?
It’s an ethnic group and a religion. The vast majority of the religious group is from the ethnic group because they usually don’t try to convert people. Her note about being secular indicates she is part of the ethnic group but not part of the relegious group.
Can confirm. I am half Jewish, Secular, and coincidentally have a pretty serious nickel allergy.
How difficult is this concept?
Mother from Ireland Father from Israel, ethnically Jewish
50/50 ignoring realistic genetic history.
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Nice to meet you, America.
Maybe she’s America Ferrara.
Radcliffe: played Weird Al
Wilson: did not play Weird Al
There was always a clear winner.
Everyone knows Radcliffe’s breakout role was as the Swiss Army Man
That’s fucking brilliant
Harry Potter probably took inspiration from Matilda, which is why this works so well.
Daniel Radcliffe got nickel allergy based on Matilda?!?
That’s probably just a half-irish, half-jewish genetic predisposion.
Radcliff probably took his inspiration from Harry Potter, since it was a global sensation at the time and literally every kid read them.
Except me. I thought I was too old, and thus too cool, to be reading Harry Potter. So I didn’t read it till I was like 23, and significantly less cool.
I never read them as they were after my time too. But when I was 25 I was driving through the middle of nowhere in Oregon and saw a book in the road. Turned around, stopped and picked it up, and it was the first Harry Potter. I read it. It was okay.
We’ve been putting the audiobooks on for car rides with the kids. It’s been good for that. And I’m using a friend’s audible account and she bought them long before we all knew JK was a cunt.
My Kindle has copies that I found on the high seas though.
Mostly slash fiction.
Featuring Dobby.
As a fellow person with partial Irish ancestry and a nickel allergy, do I have… magic powers?
You need to find an old British children’s book that could be about you. Then, maybe?
James? How’s the giant peach been?
Only if one of your parents got it on under the light of a warm menorah that was owned by your other parent.
I reckon we either are or are descended from changelings. All of the downsides of fae ancestry and none of the perks.
Matilda is a gem of a movie, as is the remake of Miracle on 34th Street, which Mara also starred in.
Any version of Miracle on 34th Street is gonna be a no from me, dawg. Love the actor, but that dumpster fire of a plot needs to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
Cool. Thanks for sharing!
How’s the ghost of Jacob Marley doing?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas movies. Just not that one. Any movie that paints a healthy level of skepticism as a negative has got some issues in my book.
Who did Mara Wilson play and in what? The image says nothing to me.
She was in Matilda but I don’t remember her character’s name.
No silly, she was the character Matilda, but I don’t remember the movie’s name.
Ah yes, you’re right. I always confuse her character’s name with the title of the film.
Film Mathilda, thanks, that helps.
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It’s a contact allergy, so mostly it just makes you break out in a rash if you wear jewelry or work with tools that have been plated in nickel. It takes time before you break out, although people instantly falling over after getting a handful of change would be hilarious to see.
Yeah my Mum has it and has to have her shirt tucked in her pants as the buttons often contain nickel.
Like you say she gets a red round rash if she forgets.Yeah my Mum has it and has to have her shirt tucked in her pants as the buttons often contain nickel.
Ugh, same, but there’s a trick - Clear fingernail polish! It will eventually rub away, but it’s worth it so you don’t have to worry in the meantime.
Nice! I’ll let her know!
Cheers
Yes, but in all seriousness my mom can’t where watches because she breaks out with red welts where the watch back and even the clap touch her skin…
It itches and causes a rash that gets worse with prolonged exposure. I can’t even tolerate surgical steel and many gold “hypoallergenic” pieces because those bitches still use nickel as part of the alloy.
It’s in all sorts of things. Buttons on jeans, zippers, tools, wire, eyeglasses, and obviously jewelry.
It takes an hour or two of direct contact to start itching and getting raised bumps, less time if it is low quality metal like uncoated wire or something. Prolonged contact greater than a few hours leads to sores and it gets really really itchy and gross from there on out. Stupid jeans.
How people deal with it is just avoid metal things as much as possible because you never know if nickel is mixed in. For metal jewelry you can pay a pretty penny for higher purity metals with a much lower concentration of nickel (hard to be completely nickel free due to natural impurities) or just wear silicone/resin/leather jewelry.
Jeans though…those buttons are gonna get you. Most people paint the inside button with nail polish but that shit rubs off quickly. I just make sure I’m wearing at least 2 layers of barrier fabric between my skin and the jeans (1 layer can be pretty permeable).
“But we’re in the middle of Charlotteth Web!”
(Yeah, different movie, but that’s what goes through my mind when I see her. Thanks for the memories, Mara!)
So many people means no one’s unique
That’s a funny take on identity. Half Irish is a nationality, half Jewish is a religion.
Jewish is an ethnicity as well. and she specifically says she’s secular, so it’s definitely not her religion.
Is christian an ethnicity ?
no. you do realize that is not a logical followup.
—i ate a banana and an orange
—it’s weird that you said you ate a fruit and a color
—orange is a fruit as well
—is purple a fruit???That’s a really nice analogy you just made, it’s easy to comprehend and correct. I started my point wrong and then slid into bad faith. I’m too lazy to try and clarify what I initially meant/intended, so I’ll gladly take this opportunity to end it. Thank you.
That was really unexpected i gotta say. Much respect. Thank you for engaging honestly.
Jewish is a race and religion
I would say that both are ethnicities since we’re all members of the human race.
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hint for the identity police: it has to do with generations of historical discrimination and otherness. sorry our culture isn’t yours.
