Labour MP Harriet Harman recounts vile 100 Jews in a mini joke live on BBC TV

[grossproffit]

The Labour veteran was shut down as she tried to make the joke, claiming that BBC's Andrew Neil would find it was "perfectly alright" - with the host immediately telling her to "be quiet".

The panel had been locked in a debate on Neil's late night politics show This Week, about whether making jokes about Adolf Hitler was acceptable.

Ms Harman then jumped in, saying she had been criticised as a "humourless feminist".

She said: "I'll give you two examples that I protested about because they were offensive and hurtful.

"This was a Guy's Hospital rag magazine back in the day and people like Andrew say that these things are perfectly alright."Two jokes - one was how do you get 100 Jews into a Mini - one in the driving seat, 99 in the ash tray.

"And that is not funny."

But Neil immediately stopped her, saying they would not continue with the second example - saying: "We won't bother with a minute's silence that you would dare to think what I would think about that because you have no knowledge of that at all."

When Ms Harman tried to again speak, Neil again shut her down, telling her: "be quiet".

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4833966/andrew-neil-slams-harriet-harman-jewish-anti-semetic-joke-on-tv/

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[Nitram]

1. Not even a little funny. Unless you are an anti-semitic fascist.

[MosheFeingold]

2. I'm having trouble following

I think what she was saying was the joke was NOT funny and it was an example of bad-intentioned humor.

I suppose in order to call it out for the bigotry that it is, you have to tell the joke.

On a lighter note, I'm glad she didn't tell the most dangerous joke in the world. That could have killed half of Britain.

[11cents]

3. An explanation:

The Sun is a RW Tory paper, and it's lying about Harman's comments.

[MosheFeingold]

7. I don't know about RW

But I can tell you their prose is impossible to follow.

I've read this about 10 times. Without the commentary here, I still would have no idea about what they are complaining.

[grossproffit]

4. She said that Andrew Neil would find it was "perfectly alright." The problem with her "joke"...

is that the Labour party has a huge antisemitism problem. Jeremy Corbyn, it's leader, has referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as friends and just recently he refused to attend the Balfour 100 celebration.

[11cents]

5. Harman is distinctly not one of those responsible for that

If she made an unfair accusation against Neil, fine, that's a fair critique. But the implication in the headline of this shitty British tabloid is just "she made a vile joke."

[grossproffit]

6. This is being reported on throughout Britain. Telegraph, Huffpost, Guardian, Express, etc.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/03/harriet-harman-criticised-recounting-antisemitic-joke-bbc-show/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/andrew-neil-harriet-harman_uk_59fc7a0ce4b0b0c7fa39a6d2
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/874951/Harriet-Harman-BBC-This-Week-Andrew-Neil-Labour-Party-Twitter-Response

[11cents]

8. British media are reporting a bullshit "controversy." So what.

It's what they do, and what our media do as well. The Sun headline was still deceptive. The intent was to make it appear that Harman was making an antisemitic joke with antisemitic intent -- and you put it up here without context. I happen to think that antisemitism in the Labour Party is a real issue, but this is spurious bullshit.

The fact that she said that the interviewer would find it funny -- that's something that she should apologize about. But hardly a pressing issue for the Jewish group.