Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Home Truth
-Little Joey came home from school with a book about Hitler.
-I don’t know if I like that.
-And he read the whole thing, even skipping video games.
-What was his eleven year old’s conclusion?
-“He hates the Jews, just like Grandpa.”
-Well, that’s extreme. Your father...
-would’ve turned the handle to let the gas in.
-My God, Joe, do you really mean...?
-Hey, there’s a lot of hatred in this country, against blacks, Hispanics. But the real keystone is Jews. Too much sugar-coating: let’s admit it. When Fox and those others go after Liberals, who do you think they see in their diseased mind’s eye?
-It was a code word as far back as Agnew. Not so much now, methinks. Anyway...more time passes, more it goes away.
-Yeah, time that is. Not Jew-Hatred.
-Well, he’s your father.
-We’ve long ago given up on screaming over the kitchen table
and are just waiting for him to die.
-Yeah, but he must know how you really feel.
-I hope not. He’ll change his will.
-So, it has become go along to get along lo these many years?
-Pretty much.
-And when he buys the farm, you get a string
of hardware stores?
-Yup.
-Are you interested in hardware?
-Not in the least. They’ve all got good managers,
so it’ll be more of a cash machine at first.
-Send little Joey to Yale?
-Probably. Maybe he’ll get interested in the
family business then.
-Too capitalistic.
-My plan is to make it pretty much profit sharing: every employee getting a stake.
-Too socialistic! The old man’ll start spinning in his grave and never stop.
-Devoutly to be wished. Maybe I can bury a Jew beside him.
They can spin together.
-Uh uh. More like in opposite directions.
-Little Joey came home from school with a book about Hitler.
-I don’t know if I like that.
-And he read the whole thing, even skipping video games.
-What was his eleven year old’s conclusion?
-“He hates the Jews, just like Grandpa.”
-Well, that’s extreme. Your father...
-would’ve turned the handle to let the gas in.
-My God, Joe, do you really mean...?
-Hey, there’s a lot of hatred in this country, against blacks, Hispanics. But the real keystone is Jews. Too much sugar-coating: let’s admit it. When Fox and those others go after Liberals, who do you think they see in their diseased mind’s eye?
-It was a code word as far back as Agnew. Not so much now, methinks. Anyway...more time passes, more it goes away.
-Yeah, time that is. Not Jew-Hatred.
-Well, he’s your father.
-We’ve long ago given up on screaming over the kitchen table
and are just waiting for him to die.
-Yeah, but he must know how you really feel.
-I hope not. He’ll change his will.
-So, it has become go along to get along lo these many years?
-Pretty much.
-And when he buys the farm, you get a string
of hardware stores?
-Yup.
-Are you interested in hardware?
-Not in the least. They’ve all got good managers,
so it’ll be more of a cash machine at first.
-Send little Joey to Yale?
-Probably. Maybe he’ll get interested in the
family business then.
-Too capitalistic.
-My plan is to make it pretty much profit sharing: every employee getting a stake.
-Too socialistic! The old man’ll start spinning in his grave and never stop.
-Devoutly to be wished. Maybe I can bury a Jew beside him.
They can spin together.
-Uh uh. More like in opposite directions.
Labels: antisemitism
