I have always admired Larry David’s offbeat humor, but
his attempt to make a joke about people about to be gassed is beyond disgusting.
In fact, I don’t know whether there is a word in the English language to
describe the repugnance of what he said.
Some 6 million Jews died and another 11 million people
lost their lives Nazi camps. Where is there any
humor in this?
Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner, Czesław
Miłosz lived in Warsaw during the war and witnessed the massacre of thousands
of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. Milosz wrote:
“In the spring
of 1943, on a beautiful quiet night, a country night in the outskirts of
Warsaw, standing on the balcony, we could hear screaming from the ghetto…. This
screaming gave us goose pimples. They were the screams of thousands of people
being murdered. It travelled through the silent spaces of the city from among a
red glow of fires, under indifferent stars, into the benevolent silence of
gardens in which plants laboriously emitted oxygen, the air was fragrant, and a
man felt that it was good to be alive. There was something particularly cruel
in this peace of the night, whose beauty and human crime struck the heart
simultaneously. We did not look each other in the eye.”
There is no humor in people being massacred in camps,
schools, churches, Charlottesville, or shopping malls. There is nothing funny,
absolutely nothing, in Mr. David’s shameful comedy. (To be continued)
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