Artists in Uniform

I've just been reading an essay by Mary McCarthy, "Artists in Uniform," written in 1953.  She tries to show a much less educated man, a colonel of Irish extraction, the error of his anti-Semitic ways.  He thinks with a name like McCarthy, they should be kindred spirits ("Think back; when you were a kid, didn't the word, Jew, just make you feel sick?").  She never tells him that for all her Irish looks, she is also a quarter Jewish. 

I am a quarter (or an eighth, or a sixteenth) of just about everything, and have been subjected to my fair share of ignorant diatribes on "those people."  Frequently, they happen to be one of my people.

The unwelcome lecture is offered by strangers, usually men, acting on an ancient desire to impress and educate in the presence of a young woman.  Being an Ivy League-educated, northern elitist, and therefore incorrigibly arrogant, you try and ease the ignorant party into the light with principled argument, as if all their life they had been waiting for you to come along and put things in perspective.  You argue on principle to mask the fact that you speak from your beating heart.  It's always personal.

The most interesting thing about her essay is that by the end, it's the anti-Semitic colonel who emerges as the sympathetic character.

I've excerpted what I thought was the most interesting part, about racism being a form of intellectualism. 

"...they were speaking now of another university and a woman faculty-member who had been issuing Communist statements...in the back of my mind, I had a supreme confidence that these men were wrong: the story, I supposed, was some tattered piece of misinformation they had picked up from a gossip column...To the colonel, the demand for the name was not specific but generic: what kind of name was the question he presumed to be asking.  "Oh," he said slowly with a luxurious yawn, "Finkelstein or Fishbein or Feinstein"..."Please!" I said impatiently.  "Can't you remember exactly?" The colonel shook his head and then his spare cheekbones suddenly reddened and he looked directly at me.  "I can tell you one thing," he exclaimed irefully.  "They weren't named Ryan or Murphy"...

...The desolate truth was that the colonel was extremely stupid, and it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable.  It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.  Hence a thing I had noted before but never understood: the fact that anti-Semtic statements were generally delivered in an atmosphere of profundity.  Furrowed brows attended these speculative distinctions between a kike and a Jew, these little empirical laws that you can't know one without know them all.  To arrive, indeed, at the idea of a Jew was, for these grouping minds, an exercise in Platonic thought, a discovery of essence, and to be able to add the great corollary, "Some of my best friends are Jews," was to find the philosopher's cleft between essence and existence.  From this, it would seem, followed the querulous obstinacy with which the anti-Semite clung to his concept; to be deprived of this intellectual tool by missionaries of tolerance would be, for persons like the colonel, the equivalent of Western man's losing the syllogism: a lapse into the animal darkness.  In the club car, we had just witnessed an example: the colonel with his anti-Semitic observation had come to the mute young man like the paraclete, bearing the gift of tongues.

Here in the bar, it grew plainer and plainer that the colonel did not regard himself as an anti-Semite but merely as a heavy thinker.  The idea that I considered him anti-Semitic sincerely outraged his feelings.  "Prejudice" was the last trait he could have imputed to himself.  He looked on me, almost respectfully, as a "Jew-lover," a kind of being he had heard of but never actually encountered, like a centaur or a Siamese twin, and the interest of relating this prodigy to the natural state of mankind overrode any personal distate.  There I sat, the exception which was "proving" or testing the rule, and he kept pressing me for details of my history that might explain my deviation in terms of the norm...I was stubbornly sitting on the fact of my Jewish grandmother like a hen on a golden egg.  I was bent on making him see himself as a monster, a deviation, a heretic from Church and State.  Unfortunately, the colonel, owing perhaps to his military training, had not the glimmering of an idea of what democracy meant; to him, it was simply a slogan that was sometimes useful in war.  The notion of an ordained inequality was to him "scientific"...

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