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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1074404" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>From my limited knowledge of what passes for comedy these days there is no way on earth Carr would have used the joke if his topic had been Jews/Judaism. If you would be uncomfortable about the joke substituting Gypsies for Jews then:</p><p>A) well done, you still have a shred of humanity</p><p>B) why is it 'just a joke' because it is about Gypsies?</p><p></p><p>In Carr's defence, the picture around Gypsies/Travellers & Roma in the British Isles is pretty impenetrable and some completely non-Roma can be called Gypsies/Travellers (not that we should be de-humanising them either).</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20218/equality_and_diversity/698/gypsies_roma_and_travellers[/URL]</p><p></p><p>So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is an ignoramous whose knowledge of the world beyond the British Isles is limited simply to where can be used as a tax haven, so he can do his part to help erode British society.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1074404, member: 74121"] From my limited knowledge of what passes for comedy these days there is no way on earth Carr would have used the joke if his topic had been Jews/Judaism. If you would be uncomfortable about the joke substituting Gypsies for Jews then: A) well done, you still have a shred of humanity B) why is it 'just a joke' because it is about Gypsies? In Carr's defence, the picture around Gypsies/Travellers & Roma in the British Isles is pretty impenetrable and some completely non-Roma can be called Gypsies/Travellers (not that we should be de-humanising them either). [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20218/equality_and_diversity/698/gypsies_roma_and_travellers[/URL] So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is an ignoramous whose knowledge of the world beyond the British Isles is limited simply to where can be used as a tax haven, so he can do his part to help erode British society. [/QUOTE]
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