Master, you write
<<<That post was intended to poke fun at most religions, including Catholics. Being politically correct
doesn't always make for good humor. Tomorrow I'll post you a few good Italian jokes I just recently
heard which do NOT offend me at all. >>>
We don't know each other, so you aren't aware that I am very hostile to PC-thought. I am even a defender of ethnic jokes as a genre. Well, funny ones. I'll post my favorite Jewish joke later, if I have the time.
I truly didn't realize your comments were intended as humor. Funniness doesn't usually escape my notice, but if it was there in your remark "The Jews have the pretension that they are 'The Chosen Ones' and all others are scum," it did this time.
Your P.S. seems to contradict the claim that this was humor on your part, but I'll take your word for it, of course.
I admit I have never personally known any Orthodox Jews. You didn't specify Orthodox, though. You just said that "The Jews" have the "pretension" that they are "the Chosen Ones," and that they ("the Jews")think that "all" others are "scum."
This is not true of any of the Jews I have ever known, and, if said of them, would be a scurrilous and unfair characterization.
As for Orthodox Jews, it's true I've never known one, but I would not be mightily surprised if, being fundamentalists, they, like other fundamentalists, they were quite insular and imbued with the self-importance that would naturally come from the conviction that you and you alone were in possession of The Truth.
<<<f you don't like the tone of the post I apologize.>>>
I had no objection to the tone of your post at all. It was the inaccuracy of the content (which I now understand to have been humorously intended) to which I objected.
<<<But in that case you should also defend the Hare
Krishnas, Muslims and Evangelists which I also referred to and not just take offence to the Jewish
remark.>>>
This point is legitimate, but was addressed before you made it. I said this:
Well, I am choosing one thing to comment on in a post that might elicit a number of comments, but it's late, and, under the influence of my own history, I have chosen the item that most disturbed and startled me.
I'm also going to post the em response I got from the friend to whom I forwarded your comment. It addresses the "pretensions" and "Chosen People" remark. |
