Why bother with Polish Jokes?
After all, there are only three.
(All the rest of those stories are true.)
They were a tiny portion of sales and went primarily to Civil War reenactor organizations, she added........................... Oh crap! Now the Yankees at the reenactments will be fighting invisible opponents? The southerners will be banned because they offend a minute part of the population?? Geeeeez, please bring back the 50’s, I want to hear Irish, Italian, Polish, etc, jokes again. We were free to laugh at ourselves back then. It truly was a better time. No one felt offended, it was a war of jokes, and we were all friendly towards each other afterward, just having a good time. I told an Italian joke to my relatives in Italy and they laughed their heads off. (As I type, I’m chuckling just remembering it.)
Those of us in the majority, had no one here in 1865. We see it as this country’s history. The history won’t disappear over night, the causes fought for will be remembered mostly by those who had relatives here at the time. As a first generation American who has read many novels dating back to that period, I feel no malice towards any of the fighting men whether they be from the north or the south. It was the POLITICIANS that drove them into the war. Armies do not declare wars. Neither side was guilty of mass murders, except for a few exceptions like Liberty KA. and Ft Pillow. (Ft Pillow by the famous Democrat that founded the KKK.) (Liberty KA, by a homicidal maniac.) There were no mass graves to hide murdered victims.
Both sides gave their dead an honored burial regardless whether they were from the north or the south. Are we to remove the rebel graves from Gettysburg and other battle fields? What purpose would it serve? Both sides fought for their freedom, when you loose your freedom, you can never regain it without bloodshed. Are the Brits offended by the Revolutionary flags of the USA? Is there a law in the UK that forbids them? The asylum has been taken over here.
Why bother with Polish Jokes?
After all, there are only three.
(All the rest of those stories are true.)
You are exactly right. My father had a Polish friend who loved to collect Polish jokes. And now we have no humor at all & instead all the silly virtue-signaling. It’s too pathetic for words.
But I enjoy seeing a bit of backlash, as in the Confederate flags having boffo sales. Too funny!
You forgot the Norwegian jokes..