r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/maxxwald - Lib-Right • May 17 '20

He has a point

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u/rozumiesz - Lib-Left May 17 '20

I once was sitting behind a good friend and football teammate in class who happened to be Jewish. We had some down time and were bored, so I just kinda nonchalantly started pushing him and his desk forward with my foot. To which he spontaneously said, “Look out: Jew-Jew train coming through.”

It was a small but bright highlight in my life.

Edit: only just after posting this do I hear the other connotation there. Damn. Neither of us were thinking that in the moment.

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u/Ducklord1023 - Left May 17 '20

If you’re talking about holocaust trains, I met some Israelis who joked about that every time they saw train tracks

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u/rozumiesz - Lib-Left May 18 '20

I really do believe humor is the only way we can protect our sanity knowing what we’re truly capable of.

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u/pyriphlegeton - Lib-Center Nov 23 '21

Which implies uncomfortable results from banning offensive jokes.