Is this anti-semitism?

That's a good point Mordy... Also, how many people talk about the Chases and Morgans and such? WASP banking families have never gained the kind of notoriety of the Rothchilds, and I doubt the reason for that was that they were nicer people or something.

OWS & the 99%ers made a big deal out of chase bank's connections to the nazis, but that's an institution, not a family. the rockefeller name lingers in the (american) public memory as a symbol of vast family wealth in a way that's comparable to that of the rothchilds.

OMG: http://www.inquisitr.com/218266/jon-lovitz-harnesses-power-of-twitter-gets-teen-bullies-expelled-from-school/

Is this old news?

damn what is with people. the mom drove them?

kudos on not even drawing the swastika right

Okay the mom driving them is the WORST part of that story.

them getting kicked out of school and possibly charged is the best part

no i think jon lovitz fucking their lives up for good is the best part

that is a terrible story and I feel really, really awful for laughing so hard at that misshapen swastika

it's the misshapen swastika and their public humiliation in conjunction with that pic of the three of them flipping off the camera all badass that makes it comedy gold.

that and the fact that I could name at least 3 girls we grew up with who are very very happy they became adults before the Internet was widely available for them to immortalize their idiocy

my wife once had anti-semitic (and crazy) roommates who poured maple syrup all over the floor when it was her turn to clean the kitchen (it wasn't clear exactly whether this was specifically anti-semitic or just some kind of general bizarre grudge, they were very strange). Do anti-semites have some kind of a thing for maple syrup?

huh that is odd. maybe it's a coincidental wasp thing

i am a wasp. we do like maple syrup.

I think maple syrup is just a vandalism thing because it's a bitch to clean up.

Exactly.

was it mrs butterworth? because i've heard things

what, that it was originally Butzerwitsky?

there's a famous ~19th century joke where a cheder teacher tells his friend, "if i were a Rothschild, i would be even wealthier than a Rothschild." his friend asks, "why?" and he responds, "because I would teach a little cheder on the side."

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lol i remember that from the big book of jewish humor (great book). great joke.

I DON'T GET IT

I TRIED

NO GET

the joke is that if the cheder teacher were a rothschild, and thefore super rich, he would still teach cheder so he could make even more money even though the money he'd be paid for teaching cheder would be paltry compared to his wealth as a rothschild

hilarious

i thought it was pretty funny tbh

i thought it was pretty funny

[dangit max]

*sigh*

Can I not convert if I don't get it/find it amusing even when it is explained to me?

no

aw shucks. Well, I didn't really love Blazing Saddles or any other Mel Brooks stuff, either.

I told my wife that joke and she immediately got it and also couldn't explain why it's funny. I think it's something about the combination of money-obsession, unrealistic fantasizing and old-world shtetl provincialness. It's not only that the extra money he'd make teaching hebrew school is meaningless next to Rothschild wealth, it's also that he clearly has no conception of Rothschild wealth because he's just some poor rebbe from Lodz or something. Yeah, hard to explain.

I guess it's sort of like a little kid who says, "If I won the lottery, I'd get even richer by taking some of the money and buying lemonade and selling it at a lemonade stand."

yeah there are a lot of ways to unpack that joke, max's is kind of the most literal

i think it's a great joke

it is

like, forty gazillion plus 3.25 is still forty gazillion three twenty-five. that's more!

it's a good joke but if you laugh at it and aren't jewish you are an anti-semite

whereas if dont laugh and are jewish...

Then you are a self-loathing Jew.

it's a good joke but if you laugh at it and aren't jewish you are an anti-semite

feh

you also have to hear it in a schticky old shtetl jew accent for full effect imo.

that's how I read most jokes

it's a funny joke

dreck

I love how in any story involving swastikas there's always at least one dick commenter going THEY HAVE A LONG HISTORY DID U NOT KNOW ABOUT THE INDIAN HISTORY OF THE SWASTIKA BLA BLA NAZIS RUINED IT

Nazis ruin everything.

My best friend at school invited a whole German exchange class over to his house to celebrate Diwali, temporarily forgetting that it was absolutely festooned with swastikas. That was a little awkward.

that kind of swastika is usually reversed! not that that makes a difference tho

The Reverse Swastika is my favorite wrestling move. Very effective.

Also, a good cocktail.

And sex move.

swastikas are free to go either way on the subcontinent; only the nazis were such nazis about it

I am really sensitive about anti-semitism, I mean, I am not Jewish but if someone poured maple syrup all over my floor I would be deeply distressed. I'd need therapy. I've seen a really casual attitude about it in some places, like they can take a "joke".

My grandmother was a governess to a Jewish family, same with my dad's first boss out of college, again they are like family. I don't think you have to be Jewish to be hurt by this stuff, I just ignore weird politically correct people. I mean, how do you live being that "pc"?

Like I know people who think it's weird to look at Jewish websites if you're not Jewish. Like, what kind of weird attitude is that?