JEWISH JOKE:

Why do Jewish people think we're all out to get them?

Because we keep killing them.

Black Joke:

Why do Blacks think white people hate them?

Because we keep killing them.

Ba-ba-boom-ching! I'll be here all week, unless I get fired for those last two jokes.

You know you're in America because a Black woman with a fictitious Jewish name just insulted the Jewish dead of the Holocaust while performing on a very bad American talk show called "The View."

I say "very bad" because "The View," like the oral excretions of comedian Joe Rogan, is straight pitched to an audience who are probably just taking their first OxyContin of the day when the show starts.

Poor Jews!

They oughta be able to trust "The View" in the sense that it's liberal in the same way Joe Rogan is conservative, which is to say the shows peddle solutions in search of problems coupled with just enough rage to make you feel like looting a Target or storming the United States Capitol, depending on your favored brand of dumbassery.

Poor Blacks!

C'mon, THIS is the one you stick out front?

Of course, that's unfair. Just because you're Black doesn't mean you represent or speak for all Black people. Just because you're a Jew doesn't mean you represent or speak for all Jewish people.

But I know responsible Black people, middle-class Black people, who will say of Goldberg, "White people are gonna think we're all like her." The guy who says that will get up the next morning and go to work as an accountant in the office of a fruit juice company, which is about as responsible as a person can get.

Jews aren't immune from that kind of thinking, either. When Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff went down, a friend of mine, a Jew, read the news, and said to me, "Great. Madoff. He's Jewish," as though I would confuse the motivations and the sins of a crooked financier and a $42,000-a-year newspaper reporter.

I've worked as a newspaper columnist long enough to know that you don't talk about the Holocaust or American slavery without making it very, very clear that you feel very, very bad about both things.

And why wouldn't you? Both are high on the list of things about which I feel very bad. If you consider all of history, it's a very long list, and it's getting longer.

Goldberg is not the sharp edge of the Nazi movement in America. She is a high school dropout who brought her limited education to bear on something she doesn't understand at all. In this way, she's a little like Rogan, a man whose celebrity is based on the fact that he's not the dumbest guy he ever met. He's not the dumbest guy I ever met, either. I know a guy who campaigned for Ross Perot.

As soon as Goldberg drooled out a teenage dropout's view of the Holocaust, liberals, conservatives, Jews, Christians and Holocaust nonlikers went after her the way Rogan wants his supporters to go after 87-year-old cardiac patients who wear a COVID-19 mask in public. The network suspended her.

My hope is that when this is all over, liberals, conservatives, Jews, gentiles, Goldberg and Rogan can all sit down together and split a pitcher of our own urine, Rogan's favorite after-work drink.

Goldberg chose the wrong people, and I don't mean the Chosen People, as the Jews are known. I mean all the people who died in the Nazi death camps. Jews. Catholics. Gays. Communists. Romany people. So many others.

To find out more about Marc Munroe Dion, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Dion's latest book, a collection of his best columns, is called "Devil's Elbow: Dancing in The Ashes of America." It is available in paperback from Amazon.com, and for Nook, Kindle, and iBooks.