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The Rubesletter by Matt Ruby 💎

Here's why we need to cancel Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is an anti-semitic film about how a girl needs to be liberated from the shackles of middle-class Judaism by a sexually skillful salsa-dancing sheygetz. 

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Matt Ruby
Jun 08, 2021
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10 items in this week’s Rubesletter:

  1. Dirty Dancing reexamined

  2. Zuck chucks a spear

  3. Skinny vs. mom jeans

  4. Tech quips

  5. Trump’s failed blog

  6. Floyd Mayweather/Logan Paul

  7. Dating woes

  8. An interview with me

  9. Quickies

  10. Quotes from the Buddha, Neil Gaiman, a…

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