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EDIT: I misread the punchline of the joke. Ignore this.

    That's amusing, but at the same time it is horrifically anti-semitic. Especially given what the Jewish people went through in the years leading up the the Russian Revolution (One toddler was torn apart by a fascist mob, in another town a number of months later Jewish people were forced into a church and then the church and people burned alive).

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How's this anti-semitic? I doesn't portray jews in a negative way. If anything, it points out antisemitism.

Also as Jew born in Ukraine at the tail end of the Soviet Union I'm at least 90% sure this joke was created by a Jew

The punch-line of the joke is "the jews have it better, once again"

The punchline of the joke is that the Jews were treated the worst, and the antisemitic party members are going to resent them no matter what.

That's a fair reading, I guess.

That's the only reading.

They have it better because they got to leave first. Party members had to wait in line for hours. That was my reading of it

The punch line is that the anti-Semitic bigotry had the accidental effect of benefiting the Jews, who didn't have to stand in the pointless line as long.

Today, the joke would be accompanied with the "congratulations, you played yourself" meme.

I read the joke as making fun of anti-semites, not being anti-semitic.

Right. If anything, it's the minorities and the common people who are the long suffering heroes in the story. It's the party insiders who are portrayed as the anti-semitic and comically dim villains.

Did you read the joke before commenting?

If you did, did you think that you understood it fully?

If you didn't, what compelled you to comment? The way the punch-line was written?

A toddler being torn apart by fascists several years before fascism was first espoused is rather remarkable.

Do you think that fascism was created by the Nazis? Just because the manifesto was not written, does not mean that there were people without fascist beliefs, even if they couldn't call themselves fascists yet.

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