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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (28 children)

The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

The Irish genocide is far enough in the past to have become sort of "folklore".
No one who experienced it is still alive or in living memory.
That makes it better suited for small talk, and not equivalent to the Israeli genocide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By that logic we'll be allowed to laugh about Jews and ovens in about 60 years, right?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what you mean by "allowed", AFAIK there is no western country (not even Germany) where it would be illegal. I don't know the law in Israel.
My friends and me made lots of those jokes 30 years ago.
Not proud of it at all, but we were edgy 12-year-olds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing allowed by taste, not by law.

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