Sylph.Safiyyah said: »
Cerberus.Senkyuutai said: »
Sylph.Safiyyah said: »
Asura.Ccl said: »
I do not not know if you can make fun of holocaust/ISRAEL in USA,
You can.
Asura.Ccl said: »
... in France you can't, a famous humorist got his theater closed because of couple joke about the holocaust and Israel(he has zero issue when he made of Christian/Muslim/Buudisth/Atheist)
While I don't agree with that extreme of a reaction, Holocaust denial is a disgusting thing. There are Holocaust deniers in Europe and the Arab world. While we can debate numbers of dead, to pretend that the Holocaust never even happened is shameful and disgusting. It's on a level with those Americans who believe that slavery was actually humane and was a net benefit for blacks.
And you know what? Absolutely nobody in the whole country (or the other French speaking countries, or even foreign ones as the whole story reached other countries) is fine with talking to him. It's not even about having a recorded debate, it's just about talking like humans.
In France, you can laugh/disrespect what happened to black people. You can laugh/disrespect the Armenian genocide. You can laugh/disrespect what happened in the 60's between France and Algeria. You can make fun/disrespect anything as long as it's not the holy Holocaust. This is the only thing not to joke with.
But if it was only the Holocaust, people would still crack jokes at jews and money and so on, but no, even this kind of jokes will earn you life threats and insults, and getting more or less fired with no way of climbing back up.
Back in the 80's and even 90's, you could joke about the Holocaust, many comedians did. You could joke about jews, many comedians did. But then, at some point in the early 00's, it became usual to joke about black people, and for some reason, anyone who started to joke about jews again got heavy ***handed to them, unless they were jews (which involved rather bland jokes as a result, obviously).
I think there is room for public discourse on Jews and the Holocaust that can be done respectfully, and I agree that some Jews don't see to want this kind of discourse for some reason. However, much of the "debate" on the Holocaust is outright lies, or justifications for what happened, and the ones raising the issues have despicable agendas like neo-Nazi's, racists, and Arabs who want no less than the eradication of Israel.
Sylph.Safiyyah said: »
Also, please stop painting all Americans with the same brush. Not all of us are myopic "shoot first ask questions later" cowboy types. I should point out that, in 2000, our population actually didn't elect that kind of President, but rather he got into office by corruption and nepotism. The posters here are not representative of the average American. Very few of us feel like Vic, that the Palestinians should all be wiped out. I think most Americans want peace and a two-state solution. We're tired of being drug into this mess by our politicians, who are catering to a tiny but powerful demographic of Americans, and a larger demographic of lunatic Christian fundamentalists.
Sylph.Safiyyah said: »
Cerberus.Senkyuutai said: »
The whole complain people have ever since WWII ended is: why is the fact that Jews specifically died the only thing to remember? Why are gipsies and homosexuals put lower on the "pain scale"?
Because of the Biblical and historical significance of the persecution of the Jews, and because in America the other victims of the Holocaust are marginalized, where Jewish-Americans are not, generally, anymore.