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NEO-NAZIS JAN. 4, 2017

John Carpenter Denies Neo-Nazi Reading of They Live As Jewish Supremacy Takedown


By Karen Brill

In a perfect world, maybe art could indeed speak for itself, but, what with white supremacy and neo-Nazism running around all footloose and fancy-free, it’s safe to say that such a presumption of good faith has gone the way of the dinosaurs. John Carpenter learned that lesson the excruciating way when he felt compelled to explain that no, his 1988 sci-fi thriller They Live is not an allegory for Jewish supremacy and the resistance that needs to be mounted against it. That theory comes from a small, but, of course, vocal segment of They Live’s cult fandom that, below the movie’s surface-level plot about unrecognized aliens accumulating American wealth, sees clear support for the inexhaustible paranoia that Jewish people hide in plain sight and control society by hoarding wealth.

https://www.vulture.com/2017/01/john...i-semitic.html