The argument that "it was just a joke" doesn't wash. Yes, comedy can offend at times, it can push boundaries. We are talking about the attempted extermination of an entire people. How in holy hell is that "just a joke"? 1/
https://twitter.com/MhairiHunter/status/1489615293882281988
Currently the UK government is pushing legislation which would see the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities effectively criminalised. An entire culture criminalised and eradicated. 2/
Obviously that is not on the same level as what that Nazis did, but it does show how that hatred still exists. "Jokes" like Carr's normalise that hatred. They "legitimise" it. "Oh it's only a joke". It's a "joke" calling the mass murder of an entire people a joke. 3/
Holocaust denial is growing. The same views which ultimately led to it are being legitimised. We see anti-semitism being debated as if there is ever an acceptable form of it, "oh it isn't anti-semitism because...". 4/
We are seeing groups claiming that demonising the trans community and calling for them to be denied rights is in the name of "equality". It is relentless and Carr's "joke" is just part of it. 5/
It is the mainstreaming of hate. It is laughing at the murder of innocent people, and in doing so directly or indirectly saying that they "deserved it". If you call genocide a "positive" then what do you think people will take away from that now? It is not "just a joke". 6/
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