An antisemitic troll once asked me "why are Jews so bad at sports?" I said it's because sports are a Jewish conspiracy to occupy the most physically capable gentiles while we take over the world. Every so often, an antisemite finds this joke and thinks it's real and it is glorious: - ThreadSky

yair-rosenberg.bsky.social • 420 days ago

An antisemitic troll once asked me "why are Jews so bad at sports?" I said it's because sports are a Jewish conspiracy to occupy the most physically capable gentiles while we take over the world. Every so often, an antisemite finds this joke and thinks it's real and it is glorious:

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dmschmeyer.bsky.social•420 days ago

"Jews are bad at sports"

Imagine being brain dead enough to think Benny Leonard and Barney Ross couldn't fight.

notaname.info•420 days ago

I always found the history of Jews and basketball interesting
https://www.npr.org/2010/02/04/123368994/new-documentary-explores-history-of-jews-and-basketball

javierk4jh.bsky.social•420 days ago

Maybe the guy thought that movie line "I have this pamphlet... famous Jewish athletes." was a thing.

izzos.us•420 days ago

Sandy fucking Koufax...

dmschmeyer.bsky.social•420 days ago

Arguably the damn GOAT.

izzos.us•420 days ago

Just the majority of human beings in general "aren't good at sports" if by good one means "able to compete at s professional level"

dmschmeyer.bsky.social•420 days ago

He'll, I was, and I still am not good at sports.

yudhi.bsky.social•420 days ago

By definition only very select few end up winning the Olympics and world cup.

paulrosenberg.bsky.social•420 days ago

Hank Greenberg would like a word.

ktheintz.bsky.social•79 days ago

My Astros are probably going to lose Alex Bregman because their offer of $156M for 6 years wasn't high enough.

staidwinnow.cultofsundries.com•420 days ago

Ironically, your joke will fuel more anti-Semites than it'll induce laughter. That is scary.

deimos99991.bsky.social•420 days ago

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven 😂

palehorsebeholder.bsky.social•420 days ago

Have they considered that they're being lulled into a false sense of athletic superiority while final preparations are being made to deploy a second Sandy Koufax

lindavt.bsky.social•420 days ago

🤦🏽‍♀️

ludwigvondrake8.bsky.social•420 days ago

Add to that the fact that one can do a quick Wikipedia search and immediately figure out that the stereotype is untrue. There are many superb Jewish athletes in Major League Baseball alone.

secretoriginz.bsky.social•420 days ago

It's diabolical, really.

superdavexiii.bsky.social•420 days ago

Now that is funny!

kenwhite.bsky.social•420 days ago

I like you Yair but this is like bragging you fooled your two-year-old nephew into thinking you took his nose

eyesontheright.bsky.social•420 days ago

His name is literally "Stupider" and it fits

megj.bsky.social•420 days ago

Great catch

mpinga.bsky.social•420 days ago

Years later, this nephew is still dealing with the trauma.

thryse.com•420 days ago

“The Jews took our children’s noses to enlarge their own!”

yuweiquan.bsky.social•420 days ago

But if you don’t steal said nephew’s nose like this, can you really claim to be a good uncle?

waynefryback.bsky.social•420 days ago

Bad uncles need lovin, too!

yair-rosenberg.bsky.social•420 days ago

true, but we take our wins where we can get them

gribblette.bsky.social•79 days ago

I mean except this is a 40 year old man who _still_ thinks Yair has his nose even though he can see it in the mirror because when he was 19 someone told him Yair took his nose when he was 2 and is using it to create weather controlling space lasers.

beamdriver.bsky.social•420 days ago

Anyone who says Jews are bad at sports has never played hoops against a member of the Tribe from Brooklyn.

bonenberger.bsky.social•420 days ago

It’s funny how these things work, the stereotype used to be that they were too good at sports, like the Irish

bullcityfats.bsky.social•420 days ago

At one point basketball was considered a Jewish game.

kentallardjr.bsky.social•420 days ago

I wish I had a ready link to the Ed Sullivan op-ed -- yes, THAT Ed Sullivan -- which "explained" why Jews were such great players.

archangelzeriel.bsky.social•420 days ago

Somehow this is the exact opposite energy of a Jewish Leon Uris character (I forget which novel, maybe Mitla Pass) who offers to donate a huge sum to his (Jewish) university but only if they spend it on a football team.

Needless to say, I'm here for it.

illumi.meme•420 days ago

This is art

athornton.bsky.social•420 days ago

I also would have accepted "Sandy Koufax, you dipshit," followed by a swift right hook, as an acceptable answer.

thorneidentity.bsky.social•420 days ago

they don't win because they're smart; they win because they are many, relentless and have no relationship to morals or ethics.

rebelalliance77.bsky.social•420 days ago

You’ve stolen that ‘joke’.

derzeitreisende.bsky.social•420 days ago

dbonowitz.bsky.social•420 days ago

While they played games, you studied the shechita blade.

replyguyincognito.bsky.social•420 days ago

I've never heard this stereotype in my entire life

doncarlostoledo.bsky.social•419 days ago

trick them into paying fifteen bucks for a soggy cup of shitty beer, too

sstein.bsky.social•420 days ago

These are the people who don't know we're joking when we post that we have to take our space laser into the shop for repairs.

waynefryback.bsky.social•420 days ago

I keep thinking that that can't be his real name.

mikestucka.bsky.social•420 days ago

One day maybe the power structures will support a decent movie about Moe Berg. Alas, it has not yet happened.

hal10000.bsky.social•420 days ago

It's a conspiracy when we're good at sport and also a conspiracy when we're bad at sports.

pholston.bsky.social•420 days ago

Stupiders strikes again

lizardky.bsky.social•420 days ago

So, 1.9% of current MLB players are Jewish (18/945), and Jews are 2.4% of the US population, so, there's some under-representation, but it's not extraordinary.

(I had to see if the facts backed the perception.)

serpounceiii.bsky.social•420 days ago

What % of US-born players are Jewish?

travixty.bsky.social•420 days ago

What's funny is that I read the quote in the cap before anything else, and I thought it was something Rufo had said unironically

picknroll.bsky.social•420 days ago

The war is making people show their true faces. 🤠

drewkadel.bsky.social•420 days ago

Nice response. And not surprising that they take it as real. However, its virtually certain that that idiot would have been too scared to even stand in the batter's box when Sandy Koufax was pitching.

relaxedninja.bsky.social•420 days ago

May the sports be with you.

iquanyin.bsky.social•420 days ago

🤣🤣🤣 but also, my lord these folks are dumb

markfreedman.bsky.social•420 days ago

Brilliant!

uileag.bsky.social•420 days ago

Thanks. Going to use that.

It's already fun when they find out that I'm the Irish Jew they've heard about, and now this?

2024 is already won.

the-barely-jew.bsky.social•420 days ago

Why would I want to dunk a basketball when I could stare at spreadsheets all day?

mrandall.bsky.social•420 days ago

The questioner was obviously not a hockey fan.

rockshrimp.bsky.social•420 days ago

that's the problem with making extremely Jewish jokes in mixed company.

milothepsychic.starbase80.net•420 days ago

Sometimes, we gentiles ain’t so bright.

threehundredand33.bsky.social•420 days ago

These dicks never seem to grasp that a conspiracy is not supposed to openly talk about their plans on a freely viewed talk show or whatever. If your proof of a conspiracy comes from a clip of people chatting on a couch in front of a live studio audience, it isn’t.

lizardky.bsky.social•420 days ago

It's because their magic rituals require them to provide forewarning of their actions.

Seriously.

People (of a sort) believe this.

https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2104.cfm

threehundredand33.bsky.social•420 days ago

This is Doctor Evil from Austin Powers. This is Seanbaby’s parody of Superfriends verse The Riddler. This is the 2-star slasher horror film villain who leave dead animals on the doorstep and makes a series of harassing phone calls days before he strikes.