So a Jew and a black dude walk into a bar at Massey College. Along comes another Jew, Massey College "Master" Hugh Segal, who joins them, whereupon the first Jew says to the black dude, "you know this is your master, eh? Do you feel the lash?"
Cue the umbrage! No, scratch that... we're way past umbrage...
Cue the OUTRAGE!!!
According to the story in my Globe this morning, some 200 faculty and students at Massey have signed a petition demanding that the speaker, 76 year old Professor Michael Marrus, one of the top holocaust scholars in the world, be tossed overboard for his racist remark.
Get outta here!
It's a joke, folks! He's riffing off the anachronistic title Massey bestows on its leader. It might be a lame joke, it might be in questionable taste, but let's get a grip!
For his part, Master Segal has already caved, offering a grovelling statement that "there is no place for overt, jocular, or subtle racism here."
And no place for jokes, apparently.
Frankly, had our "victim" offered a pithy Jewish joke in riposte, this entire calamity might have been nipped in the bud. Alas, that would have required a sense of humour, and that's something that has gone missing on college campuses in this era of political correctitude.
Time to fight fire with fire, Professor Marrus. Just call your critics a pack of antisemites and be done with it!
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