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"Funniest" joke book ever and a page on the topic of lawyers. (This book is 556 pages long by the way.) (lemmy.today)
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[–] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A joke neither directly referencing, vaguely alluding to, or attempting to draw parallels to Jews, being described as “straightforwardly antisemetic” is the most manufactured outrage I’ve seen on Lemmy so far.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I agree, "straightforwardly antisemitic" really needs some direct reference to Judaism in the material. I definitely got that wrong. Dunno what I was thinking there. "I straightforwardly noticed an indirect reference to a bigoted trope" maybe got whacked around in my blender of a mind.

    Downvotes deserved. 😄

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Based on this and the reest of the subthread, while I can't upvote the initial comment, I'm just pointing out that I've upvoted the entire subthread because we should encourage such discussions - especially ones that don't devolve into personal attacks and arguments. This subthread discussed the issue and pretty much cleared things up. While I knew basically all of this in this instance, with these types of discussions, I often learn things that are good to know.

    So I encourage folks to see this as a positive, and encourage it. :)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Indeed! I am always a bit happy to get corrected on something, because it means I just learned something. It also means I will start spreading more accurate information in all my discussions.

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