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No one in this comment chain was making light of antisemitism, though.
I feel like I'm about to ruin the joke but....what makes their comment so funny is that they're (jokingly) missing the point and going off about something irrelevant with a fully-formed argument.
I fact checked in the first place to send to the same Jewish friend who once told me he hated Hitler....for taking that mustache style off the table for everyone. Not a guy you can accuse of not taking antisemitism seriously.
Bro. You're using your Jewish friend to explain to me how this isn't antisemitism? Do you even read what you write before you hit send?
Well, I appreciate you informing my ignorant self as to what antisemitism is and isn't. I should not have presumed to know about such things, and appreciate you setting me straight on it. I, and others related to me, should really learn to be less sensitive to such things. It is just humor, after all.
Bro. My family is from Skokie, IL. Like half of the people in my life are Jewish. I used a real example of someone "missing the point" for humor and their ethnicity is VERY relevant to my point that it's not antisemitic to make jokes on the topic.
I have no idea how you get through life if your jimmies get rustled by two comments that weren't in any way antisemitic. There are so many horrors in the world (including actual antisemitism) to get pissed about and THIS is the hill you're gonna die on?
Arguing that Slimer wasn't Jewish because he consumed ecto cooler, hot dogs, and books is funny as fuck.
Thank you for again further explaining to me how incorrect I am to assume antisemitism. I should have deferred cognition to someone who clearly knows a lot of Jews, and realized you would certainly know more about it than I. I'm glad you are confident what you have read and stated is "funny as fuck." No point wasting time someone like me, who just gets his jimmies rustled over something so trivial.
From now on I know to trust G***m, not question those who are clearly better informed and more positioned to make determinations on what is or isn't offensive to me or my "easy to get their jimmies rustled" people.
We definitely agree that nothing productive is going to come from any continued interaction between us here. I'm not backing down from my opinion that no one is making light of antisemitism and you're too busy playing the victim to give me a real reason why I should.
Maybe we'll get along in another thread. See ya there.
Nice. Playing the victim. Won't back down. That's the spirit.
You're playing the victim....again.
Have you always struggled with reading comprehension or is this a new development for you?
If you insist on getting the last word in, try to at least make it substantive
Thank you for again telling me the situation. It is important that you elucidate on the weakness of my cognitive skills, to draw contrast to your own intellectual superiority. Perhaps you feel this is a conversation to be "won", or that you in some way are "holding ground". That is possibly your POV, though of course, I have no way to be sure.
What I do know is that having our opinions or thoughts called into question can psychologically put us on the defensive, feeling attacked. Identity-Protective Cognition hardens our stance, and we become unwilling to concede at all. Because existentially, it feels like a danger. It feels bad.
So what I will do is concede that we may both have succumb to such, as is cognitively standard, and quite prevalent in today's digital, social media filled society. I certainly become protective and defensive in situations involving my ethnic group. And I can easily see how one could become so in regards to perceiving someone taking your words out of context or over-inflating their impact.
There is a difference between being unintentionally insensitive and being racist or hateful. I do feel, personally, there may have been some unintentional insensitivity in the comment, but I do not think you are hateful of Jews. And please realize, I am telling you how it reads to me. Perhaps it reads differently to you; I do not have your contexting within my brain. But, you also do not have mine, and this is where the unintentional comes in.
Regardless, you are correct that this isn't productive. I am sure you are not a specifically bad person, and realize this was just a little Internet interaction. Words rarely ever have meaning standing alone. We do not share each other's perspectives, but likely are not really in conflict at all.
You hopped into a silly conversation to accuse us of not taking antisemitism seriously.
And you gotta realize that this sarcastic overly-agreeable writing style you keep using is really not helping you beat the self-victimizing accusations.
I'm more than willing to change my behavior when I learn it's actually insensitive. But earlier, you said you know you're too sensitive and I agree. Why should I change for the 0.001% of people predisposed to being offended?
First visualization: me shaking my head in near disbelief.
Second visualization: me realizing this is some twit on social media and no longer caring.
Third visualization: me considering the psychology in my head and laughing. Albeit uncomfortably.
Go be white and right, bro. Have the day you deserve.
[edit] My original comment was a bit mean, forgive me if you already ready.
But I do want to say that I must have deserved a funny day because your reply made me laugh really hard, though maybe not in the way you intended.
Laughter is medicine for humanity. If you are laughing, there is hope.