Jimmy Carr Outrage-Provoking Positives of the Holocaust Riff
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Via: john-russell • 2 years ago • 4 commentsBy: Tommy Christopher (Mediaite)
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British standup comic Jimmy Carr has sparked outrage over a riff from his Netflix special that includes the punchline "no one ever wants to talk about the positives" of the Holocaust.
Carr's His Dark Material was released on Christmas day last year, but has recently begun to generate fierce outrage over the show's final chunk, during which Carr announces he is going to tell some "career-ending" jokes.
"I think we all have come to terms with the fact I get canceled in the next couple of years, right? Yeah, chances are. Here's the good news. I'm going down swinging," Carr said.
The segment is ostensibly a commentary on what some call "cancel culture," but contains a string of very deliberately offensive jokes — even for the notoriously provocative Carr.
For example, Carr asks the audience "Can I end my career in eight words?", then answers himself by saying "You can prevent any rape. Just say yes."
But this part of a two-minute section about the Holocaust has sparked particularly negative reactions:
This should be a career-ender. OK, strap in, everyone. You ready?
When people talk about the Holocaust — when people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine, but they never mention the thousands of gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives.
The clip began circulating widely on social media this week, to a blizzard of condemnation from organizations like The Auschwitz Museum and The Traveller Movement:
@jimmycarr Learn about fate of some 23 thousand Roma & Sinti deported to Auschwitz. Our online lesson: https://t.co/4oNbsPuWdU & podcast about their story: https://t.co/uURtCUYjt7 It's sad to hear words that can fuel prejudice, hurt people & defile memory of their tragedy.
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) February 4, 2022
You can read this statement on our website here: https://t.co/ueDCiOtHD8
— Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (@HMD_UK) February 4, 2022
There are no 'positives' to be drawn from the Holocaust and the Porajmos - the Nazi genocide of the Roma people. @jimmycarrhttps://t.co/lYr6kE4XSm
— Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) February 4, 2022
Hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people were murdered during the holocaust, some research suggests even more. @jimmycarr, in a recent segment of his new show, not only minimizes it, he celebrates it. @netflix need to take action. https://t.co/Z0qw1FrceE
— HOPE not hate (@hopenothate) February 4, 2022
Hi @netflix we ask you to remove 'Jimmy Carr: His Dark Material' from your platform.
Joking about the genocide of an ethnic minority is not funny. #StopTravellerHate@StopFundingHate@Rene_Cassin@HMD_UKhttps://t.co/WurC6jCINc
— The Traveller Movement (@GypsyTravellerM) February 4, 2022
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never heard of him
Sounds like my type of humor. Catalogue him with Louis CK and Dave Chapelle.
I agree with you. Shocker.
If anyone thinks for a minute that Jimmy Carr is celebrating the death of "thousand of Gypsies" (or Roma if you want to be politically correct) during the Holocaust they completely missed his point. There are thousands of monuments to the Jews that were killed. We hear "never again" every single time it is brought up. Israel exists almost solely because of it. But you never hear about the Gypsies that were killed. Not even a minor mention. They are not even an afterthought.
With one comment he draws attention to them by sparking an outrage. Maybe they can turn this outrage into correcting how Gypsies are currently treated throughout Europe? Or just get him canceled- which I am sure would be far easier.
FFS, it’s comedy. Do people really not get the difference between a college history professor’s lecture and stand-up comedy? I swear, we have lost our sense of humor. And even if you don’t personally find something funny, I believe that having a sense of humor means you at least understand the concept and how a thing could be funny for someone else.
If you don’t like this guy’s jokes, don’t listen to him.