[BRIEF NOTE] Oh what I've missed out on

[rfmcdonald]

The story of Oklahoma House of Representatives representative Sally Kern, who in a speech given to a group of Republicans that was videoed and uploaded to YouTube "criticized gay people for indoctrinating children, lamented the growing number of gay politicians, [. . .] said gays will “destroy this nation”" and claimed that the gay community "poses a “bigger threat, even more so than terrorists or Islam,” to the United States" has gotten quite a lot of coverage in the United States and elsewhere. (Kern stands by her statements.)

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It's at times like these that I'm reminded of the old joke about the Jewish reader of Der Stürmer.

"Two Jewish guys are sitting on a bench in a park, one is reading Haaretz, the other one is reading Der Stürmer. The Jew reading Haaretz looks worried, the Jew reading Der Stürmer is smiling all the time.

"The Haaretz reader says: 'It's not good, what's happening in the world. It's not good what could happen to the Jews.'

"The Der Stürmer reader says: 'Of course you start to think like that. You are reading the wrong newspaper.'

"The Haaretz reader says: 'The wrong newspaper? What are you reading?'

"The Der Stürmer reader answers: 'I am reading this antisemitic paper. They write the Jews own the world, we have all the power, we run all the banks, all the political parties, all the big companies. After reading this, I always feel a lot better.'"