The Importance of Anti-Semitic Jokes

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I was just raised in a house where nothing was off limits you could make Holocaust jokes. I don't get offended by just a general remark about anti-Semitism but if somebody is deeply anti-Semitic I will get offended by that, not about a particular thing the person says. It's happened to me growing up as a white-skinned Hispanic where other white people would wouldn't realize it and they would start saying things like it was usually about Mexicans or something. And then I'd be like fuck all of a sudden I became Mexican for a minute just because I was like are you fucking kidding but that's because it's not good.

In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage.

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