Stephanie Rosen: Jew

It’s one thing to be offensive with good reason; but it’s quite another to do it just for laughs. Is there some point here?

Hemant, you can post whatever you want. If one is going to be provocative over religion, shouldn’t the humor have a point to make?

I guess I don’t get it.

coming from a Christian, I actually think that is really funny. I’m not gonna be a hypocrite and hide my smile behind false indignation.

“It’s one thing to be offensive with good reason; but it’s quite another to do it just for laughs. Is there some point here?”

Laughs.

Why is being offensive for comedic purposes not a reasonable excuse for you, Darryl?

Comedy is something that makes people feel better and adds spice to their humdrum lives. It’s pissers like Darryl who get people like Don Imus and Opie and Anthony (temporarily) pulled off the air. If it’s not funny to you, STFU and let the rest of us laugh. Change the radio station or read another blog.

I am only part Jewish, but I am in touch with my heritage. I love the rich history of the Jews. However, if a Jew can’t laugh at the Jews without goyim like Darryl stepping on toes, something is screwy.

So let my people go, Political Correctness Pharaoh, and shut your effing gentile mouth.

I hope Hemant doesn’t mind me saying this on his blog, but if he does, I hope he lets it slip this once… just for the sake of being politically incorrect: If I had a nickel for every wop, kike, spic, coon-nigger, flour-cracker, chink, beaner, guinea, sandperson, mick, slant-eye, yank, kraut, frog, injun, dot-head, faggot, dyke, wasp, ginger, canuck, charlie, dago, porch monkey, macaca, wigger, and cunt I ever met, I would be a very poor man. If I had the same nickel for every Homo sapiens I ever met, I would be the richest man in the world. I don’t see races, I see people. I certainly don’t use race jokes to hate, so why can’t I laugh at the concept of a race if the people of that supposed race are laughing too? Why must I change how I speak, how I act, and what I (and most of my friends) think is funny just so you and the rest of the loud minority with the FCC on speed-dial can feel better? The woman in this video is a professional comedienne, and she made me laugh so hard I dribbled tea down my shirt and almost pissed myself, so she’s doing a good job… let her do her work. Under FCC guidelines, I would have to change the word piss in the former sentence to tinkle and remove the word ‘myself,’ as tinkling is okay but not on my own god-damn (the FCC finds this word okay) body. Political correctness is a bitch (also an FCC appropriate word… but not the word breasts for some reason). Have I yet made my point that political correctness is ridiculous?

Read 1984. Political correctness will start the process illustrated in 1984.

And don’t blame me for the video… blame Canada.

I said faggot and flour-cracker too. We’re even, no?

Lookie, everybody: Reed knows dirty words and he’s not afraid to use them. Now there’s something to admire.

OK call me dense, but what did she do and what would she do again? I watched it several times and didn’t get it. I didn’t see anything to be offended about because all she did was look around and said, “You know what? I’d do it again.” So what’s the problem? I don’t even know what is funny and I even turned my speakers up.

I don’t get it. 🙁

Mriana, you didn’t miss much. She’s not much of a comedian. It would have been more effective (although I don’t find it funny) if she had said “we’d do it again.” She didn’t do anything. Her line makes you pause and think–oh, yeah, she’s representing all Jews–and if you have to think, it’s less effective as humor. Also, her facial expressions were not good enough.

Oh wow… Darryl, our little humour critic, seems to have overlooked the message behind my usage of racial slurs. He ignored the message and jumped straight to the words and labelled them dirty without thinking one iota into the context… and, in doing so, brilliantly proved a point for me.

Political Correctness junkies don’t see the meanings of what people are trying to do. When I can say all sorts of racial epithets and Lenny Bruce can say nigger a lot, he doesn’t see the point behind it. By despising the word, you only make it more offensive. By banning the word, you make it more painful. My point in using those words was to demonstrate that they mean nothing. They’re just words like carrot, yellow, and aphrodisiac. The thing that makes them potent is your attempted banishment of them. But, again, you’re missing the meaning! My meaning in all of that was to say that race is absolutely a ridiculous concept. I am no different than a Mexican, an Asian, or a German. We are all human beings.

You ignore a message that, if applied to the masses, could eliminate war and hatred because of a few four-letter-words that you deem to be dirtier than the rest of the English language.

And I think humour is its funniest when you have to think about it. It rewards the intelligent with a laugh and leaves it open to interpretation… and when you can imagine four interpretations of a joke, you can laugh at it fresh four times. You’re clearly a die-hard American… you would never understand Canadian humour… our northern neighbours rarely spell out the jokes for their viewers… maybe it’s because they get them easier. The same goes for the Brits. It’s possibly just stupid I-like-farts-because-they’re-funny-in-large-doses-on-night-time-television Americans that don’t understand this kind of humour easily.

I admit, it didn’t really get the “point” of it until Siamang explained it. (I I mean, I knew what she was saying, I just didn’t know what the “message” was.) But even after reading Siamang’s explanation I had to think about it for a bit to make the connection with anti-semitism. I think that’s just because anti-semitism is just so completely foreign to me. I know it’s common among some fundamentalist Christians, but honestly, in the evangelical circles I grew up in they were more pro-Jew (and especially pro-Israel) than anything else – mainly because of their interpretation of end-times prophecies.

The Catholicism I grew up in was pretty pro-Jewish as well (minus the end times stuff). So when I first saw fundie anti-semitism it was pretty foreign to me.

I got it, but I had to watch it twice. Then I laughed rather hard.

I grew up in a very Christian environment, but the protestant denomination I was in and surrounded by had fairly neutral feelings about Jews. They certainly didn’t share the eschatological views of the Left Behind crowd, though they tend to gravitate toward what I’d call a ‘cordial Zionism.’ I was never taught to be dislike Jews growing up because..well.. my town doesn’t have any. Interestingly, I didn’t know much about Christian anti-Semitism til I became an atheist (a good example of why not to stereotype groups). But, the historical joke is great.

This is my last post on this (I promise) because it’s not worth anything more. I’m with Richard on this poor attempt at humor. I also was raised to not hate Jews or anybody else for that matter. My condolences to people who have been hurt that way and feel the need to lash out at others because of it.