Is this anti-semitism?

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?

"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."

lol

http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/04/19/3093326/urban-outfitters-goes-with-holocaust-style-star

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

http://www.edupics.com/russia-man-with-jewish-star-t13193.jpg

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

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?"

okay, calibrating

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

I would never wear that.

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

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/05/04/belgian-train-announcement-welcome-to-this-train-for-auschwitz-all-jews-get-off-at-buchenwald/

:/

What the hell

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

i kinda want to buy one

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.

ive never seen these things before

eastern european religious kitsch can be pretty strange

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

ebay.pl, google translate

i got nothin

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.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/23/the_worlds_most_racist_job_ad

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.

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.