"while crow sister is justified in finding his comments objectionable, she misses the point about why if she goes on to apparently retaliate against the Irish on behalf of jews."

Not a retaliation Lox. Being half Irish myself, I have no anti-Irish sentiment. But I'm sure I don't need to explain that.

My own anti-Catholic "joke", was intended as a form of satirical mimicry of comedians who maintain they are 'satirists' but are actually making highly debatable (if not completely failed) attempts at 'satire'.

The anti-Catholicism, seemed pertinent in context as the most readily available analogous *mirroring* of Teirans own anti-Semitic joke. Maybe it was a bit risky, but hey I'm an edgy kind of humourist! And as you said upthread, if we have to explain our jokes, they wouldn't be so funny..

Of course, I'm actually neither genuinely attempting to be funny, expressing 'retaliatory' anti-Irish sentiment, nor even satirising anti-Catholic sentiment, but attempting to mirror or satirise bad satire by using the most obvious equivalent religious stereotype to hand, in order to emphasise my point by using an analagous counterpoint.

As my satirical "joke" a) wasn't actually funny, b) called upon an equivalent mirroring racist and religious stereotype, c) and evidently also needed explaining. I hoped that I might have illustrated a point. It failed, nevertheless that was my intended purpose - not mere 'retaliation'.

Anyhoo, just to reassure folk, I won't be breaking into stand-up comedy anytime soon...