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Udi Aloni's Holocaust joke

anecdote · personal/autobiographical · retold in 3 talks

Pro-Palestinian Jewish filmmaker Udi Aloni criticizes collaborators' clumsiness, saying 'If you were so efficient like this, you wouldn't have been able to do the Holocaust properly,' highlighting the taboo against such irony in Germany.

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“"If you were so efficient like this, you wouldn't have been able to do the Holocaust properly."”
“we were practicing actual anti-racism with all our vulgarity”

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political correctness ×1

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Pro-Palestinian Jewish filmmaker Udi Aloni criticizes collaborators' clumsiness, saying 'If you were so efficient like this, you wouldn't have been able to do the Holocaust properly,' highlighting the taboo against such irony in Germany., illustrating ideology,liberalism-political-correctness
Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni, frustrated with clumsy German assistants at a Schiller festival, shouted that such incompetence would have prevented the Holocaust. Žižek joined in with an even more provocative remark. The Germans' perplexed inability to laugh proved they were sincere but occupying an unclear moral position., illustrating anti-racism through transgressive humour,the ambiguity of guilt and sincerity