▲ 90 ▼ "Funniest" joke book ever and a page on the topic of lawyers. (This book is 556 pages long by the way.) (lemmy.today) submitted 2 days ago by gorpo65@lemmy.today to c/funny@lemmy.world 25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bazelgeuse@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago (2 children) Are all vampires Jewish? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago Only the ones that drink kosher blood permalink fedilink source parent [+] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [+] teslekova@lemmy.ml -10 points 2 days ago No, but "Jews drinking blood" is an old classic of the genre. I'm not a Zionist, I'm just pointing out a historical linguistic parallel. 😄 If I was a Zionist I'd probably call all of these anti-semitic because "Jewish lawyer" is also a thing. However, not nearly a strong enough thing to be antisemitic on its own, which is why I picked out the vampire one. Two insults usually aimed at Jewish people? That nudges it above the level for me. Bear in mind, I do not think the author was a bigot, or racist, any of that. I definitely don't think anyone would be a bigot for posting this. I just wanted to point out the interesting origins of a classic old joke. Maybe it would be more accurate to say "The vampire one has more direct antisemitic roots, while the others probably just originate from people who lost in court." permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago Only the ones that drink kosher blood permalink fedilink source parent
[+] teslekova@lemmy.ml -10 points 2 days ago No, but "Jews drinking blood" is an old classic of the genre. I'm not a Zionist, I'm just pointing out a historical linguistic parallel. 😄 If I was a Zionist I'd probably call all of these anti-semitic because "Jewish lawyer" is also a thing. However, not nearly a strong enough thing to be antisemitic on its own, which is why I picked out the vampire one. Two insults usually aimed at Jewish people? That nudges it above the level for me. Bear in mind, I do not think the author was a bigot, or racist, any of that. I definitely don't think anyone would be a bigot for posting this. I just wanted to point out the interesting origins of a classic old joke. Maybe it would be more accurate to say "The vampire one has more direct antisemitic roots, while the others probably just originate from people who lost in court." permalink fedilink source parent