What Jimmy Carr is laughing about :doomjak:
Went and read the replies, and what the actual fuck is this argument.
It’s not my place to comment on how people feel but I do believe that even extreme satire has a positive role to play.
Many people have no idea about the atrocities committed by the Nazis on the Romany people. This “joke” raises awareness as, I suspect, it was designed to.
Praising genocide of Romani to raise awareness is a new galaxy brain level I didn’t even know existed.
This is an even more extreme version of the “saying the n-word actually makes it so right-wingers will take you seriously and listen to your arguments that are in favour of black people” take
Who knew the Shell marketing expert and the tax dodger was also a bigot. I wish him to experience a part of the suffering these people lived through.
What’s annoying is that there really is a solid lefty joke in there, I just don’t trust Carr or his shit heel audience to actually mean it this way.
Cause the observation is absolutely true: the vast majority of libs absolutely don’t care about the deaths of the Roma, the LGBTQ people, the communists in the camps. Many do agree it was a good thing, you just need to have a few drinks with them and pass as white before they’ll admit it.
I’m sorry, but I fail to see how the exact words of Carr’s statement can be construed as a lefty joke. This literally just sounds like the ‘raising awareness of murdered Gypsies’ argument posted above.
If you remove the “positives” trash and word the end so it’s pointed at the bigots instead it could work as observational comedy. Obviously I’m not confident to make it snappy enough to be a good joke, but the material is there.
Something like: why do Euros hate talking about Roma victims of the holocaust? Cause no one likes to be put on spot admitting how much Nazi shit they actually liked.
It’s pretty meh, but I’m not wasting energy trying to make it work and sure as he’ll am not dying on this hill. Maybe you’re right and the whole thing is unsalvageable.
Any Euro who still has strong negative opinions about Roma people should be defanged and sterilized like an aggressive dog.
seriously, I can’t wait to hear a euro explain why this is A-OK because see Gypsy have very specific skull shapes that predisposes them to crime
