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Originally Posted by Livia
One of the South Park originators, Matt Stone, is a Jew.
Two of the Family Guy originators, Mike Henry and Alex Borstein, are both Jews.
Jews can poke fun at themselves... it's different when non-Jews do it. A bit like black people using the N word I suppose.
Nice to know that you yourself are not offended by this anti-Semitic moron and his poor dog. I personally find it both offensive and disturbing.
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Whilst this is true, and I've read interviews with them in the past discussing comedy that make a lot of sense (the intent being to mock neo-nazis and take away the power in it, not to mock Jewish people)... I do then have to wonder, why is it also OK for these shows to do the same with every race? They also make light of black people (and things like slavery, which saw horrors on par with the Holocaust), Chinese people, starving kids in Africa... Etc... And they are none of those things?
Is it simply OK for any minority to mock any other minority? Or is it that Jews / the Holocaust are specifically off limits to anyone but Jews?
Regardless; my point was never that it isn't offensive to some people and people have every right to be offended by it. My point is only that some people finding a thing offensive, does not mean it should be banned / illegal etc.
No matter the level of poor taste.
It isn't legitimately inciting violence, it's borne of ignorance at worst, not hatred. If it was a video of a guy seriously suggesting that everyone should go out and attack Jewish people then by all means arrest him. But it's not. It's just an insensitive, not-very-funny joke that's fallen flat. Really I'm just not a fan of censorship, full stop.