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Rick Rosner: I mean it is a weird thing because there’s a too soon in comedy and mostly the too soon is a joke itself now, where you make a Hitler joke or a joke about something else that might be inappropriate, then you go too soon and then it’s a joke on top of a joke. But for oppression, it’s like it’s too late. I mean the Jews have a whole holiday about having been oppressed 2200-2400 years ago, I don’t know maybe longer, 2800 years, like before Christ. My history is terrible, but enslaved under the Egyptians. And if you’re talking with a black person and they’re talking about slavery and you as a Jew go “Well, we were enslaved too,” probably most of the time the black person will say “Yeah, you’re right” but inside I feel like they’re thinking “Yeah…” [Doubtingly]
For one thing, black people are still suffering from the effects of slavery in terms of The Jim Crow and all the shit that came after slavery where black people in America have net education, net worth, lifespan; all this shit is much less than white people and you can trace most of these deficiencies back to slavery or the shit that was done to try to keep black people in their place after slavery. But when it comes to Jews having been enslaved, it’s really hard to trace a through line from the Jews suffering from the effects of having been enslaved nearly 3000 years ago. So really, if you’re going to play the oppression card as a Jew you got to go with Hitler rather than having been enslaved.
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Rick Rosner
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