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The song "Nobody Don't Like Christmas": Offensive?

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There's a song put out by the English Pokémon franchise called "Nobody Don't Like Christmas," where Meowth sings about how much everybody prefers Christmas to other holidays. There is one line in it that I believe can be considered anti-Semitic:

St. Patrick's Day is dull,
Arbor Day is boring!
And who wants to go through all that Yom Kippur-ing?
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It's probably not intended to sound that way, but the fact that they say a Christian holiday is "better" than a Jewish holiday makes you wonder...

What do you think?
 
Think what you want. Personally, I don't think it's offensive, this coming from an atheist so I don't care whether it's Christmas or not. Though Meowth DOES say he doesn't like Christmas, so the whole "Jewish holiday sucks, Christian holiday=win" doesn't work there. Maddie thought that line was rather lame IIRC, but that's just a random point.
 
Others this song must be offensive to by your logic:

-Veterans ("Memorial Day is a day to forget")
-Catholics (Easter is mentioned and considered one of the holiest days on the Catholic calendar)
-Irish-Americans (The Saint Patrick's Day line you mentioned)
-Patriotic right-wing nuts (something about "Independence Day's a drag if you ain't got no one to salute your flag"- I'll have to listen to it again)
-Environmentalists ("Arbor Day is boring")
-Americans who like turkey ("Turkeys don't celebrate Thanksgiving yet")
-Presidents

...every holiday is mentioned in the song. It's more about the secular aspects of Christmas than the Christian ones, and I doubt ANY antisemitism was intended. (Especially as Maddie Blaustein is Jewish)

Stop reading so much into it and just take it for what it is: a cute, amusing song about Christmas. It almost seems like you were LOOKING for something to be offended by.
 
If they said that Passover sucks because or you can't eat bread or something, I'd be all "hey, it's not that bad...", but I wouldn't be TOO offended (they wouldn't say that anyway, goyim love matza for some reason). But frankly, they chose the right holiday for the "who needs it" thing. I don't know anyone who likes Yom Kippur. XP
 
basselope7 said:
There's a song put out by the English Pokémon franchise called "Nobody Don't Like Christmas," where Meowth sings about how much everybody prefers Christmas to other holidays. There is one line in it that I believe can be considered anti-Semitic:



It's probably not intended to sound that way, but the fact that they say a Christian holiday is "better" than a Jewish holiday makes you wonder...

What do you think?
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yes but its just all fine and dandy when they say the jewish holiday is better :mad:
 
Snake Bandage said:
Pokeslob, what in the world are you talking about?
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I'm talking about how anyone can insult the christian God, Chrismas, or anything like that and its ok

but as soon as you put Muhamud on TV, or someone says christianity is better than another people get offended...
 
Oh, come on, don't act like Christians don't throw a fit about parody and satire of their religion. Just this week a comedian in my country had to apologize to the Vatican for having a satirical skit about Jesus in his talk show. I thought it was just as stupid and baseless.
 
Snake Bandage said:
Oh, come on, don't act like Christians don't throw a fit about parody and satire of their religion. Just this week a comedian in my country had to apologize to the Vatican for having a satirical skit about Jesus in his talk show. I thought it was just as stupid and baseless.
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oh no, we do!
but hardly anyone does anything about it
 
pokeslob said:
oh no, we do!
but hardly anyone does anything about it
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So you want religious satire censored? You can't truthfully say that Monty Python's Life of Brian isn't a comic masterpiece. Or that Religulous didn't give big religion (and every religion, not just Christianity) the good, ol' fashioned skewering it deserved.

The reason Christianity is the one of most satirized religions is, other than being one of the largest, as a whole, Christians have become exceedingly self-righteous and have a misconceived feeling of superiority.
 
Its not as if most little children give a damn about the religious aspect of these holidays, so yeah, strictly looking at a secular point of view, christmas probably does look more fun. There's nothing anti-semetic about saying you like one religious holiday over another for completely secular reasons, especially when all the other holidays are mentioned. I mean arbor day? Who actually cares about that.

I mean I doubt a lot Christian children would say they like Easter better (or at all if it wasn't for chocolate eggs and rabbits) despite Easter being the most important day in the Christian calendar.
 
pokeslob said:
I'm talking about how anyone can insult the christian God, Chrismas, or anything like that and its ok

but as soon as you put Muhamud on TV, or someone says christianity is better than another people get offended...
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1. Jewish people mock themselves all the time. It's part of the tradition of Jewish comedy. Go watch a Jerry Seinfeld routine and enlighten yourself.

2. The only Muslims who freak out are the militant ones. The ones liable to blow shit up. Unfortunately the majority of Muslims are decent ones who AREN'T like that and it's a shame the terrorists have to ruin things for the rest of us.

3. I'm Catholic and really don't see why it's worth getting worked up over something satirizing my beliefs. TL;DR: if your faith can be offended by a joke, it's got problems of its own.


Also, Pokeslob, I think you might wanna fix the glaring typo in your user title.
 
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