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Originally Posted by CynicalHermit
Are we really comparing the Holocaust to an ex football manager making a comment about a woman wearing a blanket on a reality tv show? really?
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No. But the climate that allowed the rise of fascism included the routine denigration of Jews in comics and on stage and the blaming of Jews for the nation's economic and cultural woes.
Now, I don't think we are in danger of another Third Reich and another holocaust, but I do know that physical attacks and acts of intimidation against muslims in this country have been rising in number for several years.
Words have power. The jokes we tell reflect and help to create the culture we inhabit. Personally, I'd rather the culture I inhabit not be a racist, islamaphobic and anti-semitic one. Guess I'm picky like that.
Good God. It's political correctness gone mad. Mad I tells ya! Mad! Can't tell the old Chalky jokes any more eh? eh? Can't call it a blackboard! No more gollywogs on jam jars. Now they won't let us take the piss out of Abdul for being a bomber. Political correctness gone mad!