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| Polish peasants 1937 Source |
I was reading Slavoj
Zizek's book, Sublime Object of Ideology.
In it, he tells a joke.
A Jew and a Pole are traveling on a
train. The Pole badgers the Jew to reveal the secret to Jewish wealth. The Jew
plays the Pole for a fool. … The joke is coercive. It makes me think of the Jew
as clever and the Pole as obnoxious, loud, and stupid enough to get duped.
***
Informant was a 26-year-old, American, male
graduate student, neither Polish nor Jewish
Slavoj Zizek is a superstar academic who self-identifies as a Communist. See here. A screencap of the page featuring the joke is below.
"To
Chew Someone Down" Bieganski Interview #1
"Poles
are Inherently Comic Janitors" Bieganski Interview # 2
"My
Father Began to Conceal His Jewish Origins" Bieganski Interview # 3
They
Worked Like Moles Their Whole Lives Bieganski Interview # 4
"She
Never, and I Mean Never, Threw Anything Away" Bieganski Interview # 5
"They
Always Kept One Token Jew" Bieganski Interview # 6
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