Can you laugh at yourself?
By laglen
@laglen (19759)
United States
April 29, 2010 8:55am CST
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137220
James Jones, U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser, has apologized for an anti-Semitic joke he told while addressing a conservative think tank in Washington. “I wish that I had not made this off the cuff joke at the top of my remarks, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by it," Jones said in a written statement.
please click the link, it will give you the rest of the story, including the joke. Do you get offended easily? I actually thought the joke was funny. I am polish, can you imagine if I got my panties in a twist after every pollock joke? I would be a sad individual indeed!
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@hofferp (4734)
• United States
29 Apr 10
My grandparents came from Russia, but we're German Russians. I never heard any jokes about us that I can remember anyway. I know some of my friends are "sensitive" to jokes about their background, so I usually change the jokes to animal jokes (if possible). I guess the animals have a better sense of humor or at least they don't tell me they mind and then I have to apologize :}. I thought the joke was funny, but I've also heard it before, but not with the Taliban "warrior". I should ask my roommate if he thinks it's funny...he's Jewish. Now, when I was younger I had blondish hair...I've heard a few of those jokes...
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@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
29 Apr 10
Im of Italian origin, do you know how many Italian jokes there are around? haha.
We all make jokes about one another and I say as long as nothing is personal, all is well then. We need to laugh, its good for our health!!
So yes I can laugh at myself because it keeps me healthy!
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@MagicalBubbles (5103)
• Canada
30 Apr 10
Its a joke?.....I thought it was a fact!! Now see what you're doing, you'll get me in trouble for saying this now. I have nothing against Jews...They are businessmen, we should learn from them.
My mom wanted to buy a flute for my sister's birthday. We went to this Jewish Music Store on a Monday as mom was told that they have to make a sale on Mondays so they know the rest of the week will be good. We were there very early in the morning to make sure we were the first. We got the flute at a VERY good price, half of what it sold for. I had never bargained for anything previously and never have since, it left me traumatized as the poor man said we were going to put him out on the street, made him cry. When we all got home, mom said she'd never do this again. He was very good!!!!!!
They are born salesmen.....something Im not!!
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
30 Apr 10
I know that joke and the Jews "win" in that one. I see it at the expense of the Radical Muslim, not the Jew. I am Canadian, and I laugh at Canadian jokes, EH? hahaha
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
29 Apr 10
I am usually the first to tell jokes about the Scots being so stingy (I prefer to say frugal). I have heard Scottish jokes all my life and find most of them to be hilarious and I too found the joke made by Jones to be funny and did not see the anti-Semitic slur in it. Perhaps I need to have why it seems to be offensive explained to me.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
29 Apr 10
I think it is because I believe there are many other much more important things in life to be concerned about. It seems to me that people dig and search for things to complain about then they find some little thing and they blow it out of proportion.
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@urbandekay (18278)
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30 Apr 10
Being English it would be hard not to!
all the best urban
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@TTCCWW (579)
• United States
29 Apr 10
I think we have taken political correctness to some bizare level in the US.
Where did our ability to laugh at ourselves go?
Thanks for the link, the joke made me laugh. My best jewish jokes have come from Jewish friends. My niece is a true blond and has hundreds of blond jokes most of them not very nice but they are "jokes" not comments.
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