Is this anti-semitism?

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

goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

whereas if dont laugh and are jewish...

Masonic Butt (Lamp), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Then you are a self-loathing Jew.

tokyo rosemary, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

feh

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Monday, 16 April 2012 15:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

that's how I read most jokes

HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 16 April 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's a funny joke

catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

dreck

bnw, Monday, 16 April 2012 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 07:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Nazis ruin everything.

Touché Gödel (ledge), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

dayo, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also, a good cocktail.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

And sex move.

nickn, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

ogmor, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

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?

โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

"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."

max, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

help me out. that seems to indicate solidarity more than anti-semitism, and i'd assume that the intended consumer is jewish?

yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 April 2012 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

Mordy, Thursday, 19 April 2012 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm not sure that it's anti-semitic, probably not in intention, but i would never wear one :/

Mordy, Friday, 20 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

i just showed the shirt to my wife with no context and her response was, "is this real? what the fuck is wrong with these people?"

Mordy, Friday, 20 April 2012 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

okay, calibrating

yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Friday, 20 April 2012 00:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

I dunno what it is but it's certainly bizarre.

I would never wear that.

drum hitler gets full publishing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't think it's anti-semitic, I think it's just kind of ill-considered. You can't really assume people are going to be cool with "reappropriation" of symbols associated with ethnic slaughter

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

What the hell

quincie, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

have we discussed this before? http://www.rp.pl/artykul/877193.html#.T7e5keUfje4.facebook

i kinda want to buy one

Mordy, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Jew of the coins is the patron saint of financial success. "The Jew in the court, money in your pocket" - the slogan suggests. When I see it in homes, shops, galleries of art objects - I feel bad

The combination of a Jew and money zagościło for good in the Christian imagination, when - as the Gospel - Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Since that time, Judas has become synonymous with Jew, and the rest of the apostles and Jesus somehow ceased to be Jews. With time, the mythical Jew, a Jew on the phantasm "in general", tightly covered the reality they were real to the Jews.

Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

ive never seen these things before

eastern european religious kitsch can be pretty strange

Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't even know how i'd get one

Mordy, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

ebay.pl, google translate

Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

i got nothin

Mordy, Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can't recall ever seeing one. The original article from Gazeta Wyborcza seemed to indicate it's a pretty standard piece of tourist merch but i'm not sure i've ever come across it. There's tonnes of tourist tat, including paintings, that references the pre-war Jewish community but it's generally aimed at Jewish tourists. I'll have to keep an eye out next time i'm over.

Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Saturday, 19 May 2012 23:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

A Jewish lawyer once told me that he thinks Jewish lawyers benefit from anti-semitism, because even (perhaps ESPECIALLY) anti-semites assume that you have to have a Jewish lawyer or that Jewish lawyers are better.

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:44 (11 months ago) Permalink

I have heard the same said about internists.

FYI I think my internist is Jewish; my physiatrist (as in rehabilitative medicine, not shrink, but probably applies there as well) is definitely Jewish. They are both kinda meh.

quincie, Friday, 25 May 2012 01:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

I mean neither is as exceptionally good as the drug dealer lawyer on The Wire, is all I'm saying.

quincie, Friday, 25 May 2012 01:52 (11 months ago) Permalink

"Jewish lawyers are the best" has a slightly more negative undertone than "Jewish internists are the best" though because people think lawyers are sleazy.

this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 25 May 2012 01:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

Jewish doulas are the best, AFAIK...

There are many tribes in the Juggalo nation (Viceroy), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:45 (11 months ago) Permalink

the best lawyers and judges that i know personally are Italian-Americans. that says more about the ethnic composition of where i live than anything else. (nb: i've also known some good Jewish lawyers and my first lawyer mentor was an excellent lawyer of Indian ancestry.)

that said, i am well aware of the "Jewish lawyers are the best!" meme. i once had a client who was visibly disappointed when i told her that i wasn't Jewish (as she originally assumed) and was in fact a Polack.

Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Friday, 25 May 2012 03:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

ouch. double whammy.

Mordy, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-do-people-hate-jews-2012-5

lol what kind of dunce is henry blodget

goole, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:48 (11 months ago) Permalink

NOTE: The original photo in this post was of a couple of jovial Orthodox Jews, one of whom was wearing a traditional hat. Some readers found that needlessly provocative. One suggested I replace it with a picture of Natalie Portman, who, I guess, is Jewish (I don't know). So I have.

lol

goole, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 21:48 (11 months ago) Permalink

if he is jewish I may have an answer

bnw, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 22:00 (11 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/06/12/after_new_york_times_profile_sweden_s_twitter_account_goes_off_the_rails_with_jew_rant_.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

i don't think actually anti-semitic, but pretty bizarre. reminds me of a defense someone once gave of zizek's early writing about jewishness: "well, they don't have many jews in slovenia"

Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 01:56 (11 months ago) Permalink


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