Comedian condemned for shedding light on Holocaust in Netflix special

Comedian Jimmy Carr was criticized for a controversial joke in a recent joke Netflix specifically stood up to disparage victims of the Holocaust, in a habit the comics refer to as “a career-ending person.”

The British-Irish comedian, 49, has done this in his latest show on the streaming platform, His Dark Matter. What’s special is one of the shows that Carr has released in conjunction with Netflix.

Despite being on the platform since last Christmas, the disparaging comment received a backlash only after a clip of the joke was posted to social media on Thursday.

The controversy arose after a joke by Carr about what he called the “positive” of the Holocaust: That a lot of Roma and Sinti – sometimes called gypsies, considered a parasite – were taken by the Germans. murdered by the Nazis.

“When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy of the 6 million Jewish lives lost to the Nazi war machine,” Carr said in the special issue. “They never mentioned the thousands of gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. Nobody wanted to talk about it, because nobody wanted to talk about the positives.”

The joke was greeted by the audience with a big round of applause and cheers.

Carr went on to call the joke “educational” because “a lot of people don’t know that the Nazis also killed thousands of gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. “.

Carr added that it was a “very good joke.”

Most people associate Holocaust victims with Jews. While the majority of those killed were actually Jews, the UK Holocaust Day Trust notes that between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti were also murdered.

After the joke caused a stir on social media, there were vehement protests from many parties, who criticized Carr for his remarks.

“We were absolutely appalled by Jimmy Carr’s comments about the persecution that Roma and Sinti people suffered under Nazi oppression, and appalled by the laughter that followed his remarks,” the Holocaust said. Memorial Day Trust writes in a statement above Twitter. “Hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti suffer from prejudice, slave labor, sterilization and mass murder just for the sake of their identities – these are not experiences to mock.”

“This widespread lack of understanding of recent history needs to be addressed and we urge people to learn more about the past and experience of the Roma people today,” the statement continued.

British politician Martin Docherty-Hughes tweeted that he was “completely speechless at the horror of the #holocaust massacre & its impact on #Europe’s #gypsy community…. @NetflixUK care to comment?”

Many also called for Netflix, urging the streaming giant to remove it His dark material from the foundation.

Councilman Nadia Whittome wrote a letter with company co-founders Ted Sarandos and Reed Hastings, stated: “In funding, streaming, and profiting from this material, Netflix is ​​legitimizing and perpetuating racism. Material of this kind on your platform doesn’t exist in isolation, and it has real-life consequences.”

“I urge you… do the right thing and immediately remove this show from Netflix,” continued Whittome.

This is not the first time Carr has been embroiled in controversy around a joke in his walking habit.

In 2009, a joke mocking soldiers in the Middle East received fury from military groups.

“Say what you like about amputee soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’ll have a good paralympic team af**king in 2012,” Carr said. He later apologized for the comment, saying he just wanted to make people laugh.

Although not well known in the US, Carr’s brand of shocking comedy has made him one of the most popular comic books in the UK.

Newsweek The journalist for Carr, Netflix and the UK’s National Holocaust Center and Museum has been reached for comment.