The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33702   Message #451613
Posted By: Tedham Porterhouse
29-Apr-01 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: NON IRRITATING JEWISH JOKES
Subject: RE: NON IRRITATING JEWISH JOKES
Bernard,

When a Jew tells a Jewish joke, it does not have the same connotations as when a non-Jew does the same.

Likewise, any other ethnicity telling jokes about his/her own group.

For example, your "joke" about Jews hanging toilet paper out to dry is particularly offensive and plays directly to anti-Semitic stereotypes. That you may have heard the joke from a Jew is irrelevant.