# The Very Very Straight Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 7, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571 "2011-02-07T20:44:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/21 "2011-02-07T21:07:18Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Wtf? Are we seriously supposed to sit through a (crappy) PowerPoint presentation? What are you, some sort of anti-semite. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/22 "2011-02-07T21:09:29Z")
I’ve been know to tell and anti-dentite joke or two. Does that count? My dentist is Greek, though. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/23 "2011-02-07T21:11:20Z")
And here Ads by Google is saying **Sell Us Your Jewry**! The nerve of that Ads by Google! oh… **Jew_el_ry**? Ne-ver miiiiiind… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/24 "2011-02-07T21:11:27Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’ve been know to tell and anti-dentite joke or two. Does that count? My dentist is Greek, though. I find that offensive because I was a Den-Teen in my youth, so chew on that. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/25 "2011-02-07T21:14:33Z")
> [@AshenLady](#): > > I don’t have to be “politically correct” because I am a big girl and I can take the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”. > > Fire away, all you want. State your thesis. Don’t post some PowerPoint-designed website. While you’re at it, name your thesis in your subject line. ---
**Author:** ![AshenLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@AshenLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshenLady)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/26 "2011-02-07T21:34:08Z")
Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/27 "2011-02-07T21:37:53Z")
> [@AshenLady](#): > > Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. Anything else? Care to summarize the contents of that flashy link of yours? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/28 "2011-02-07T21:40:03Z")
> [@AshenLady](#): > > Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. And your argument for this is? Please, no links to videos or other websites- in your own words, what has brought you to this conclusion? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/29 "2011-02-07T21:44:17Z")
> [@AshenLady](#): > > Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. But they’re just \*asking \*for it. What the hell do you expect us to do? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/30 "2011-02-07T21:47:23Z")
Well I’ll say that I am strongly opposed to anti-semitism. Take that you PC thugs! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/31 "2011-02-07T21:51:26Z")
[QUOTE=AshenLady] Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. [/QUOTE] What does this have to do with ‘The Very Very Straight Dope’? What is it you want to debate here? As for this statement, antisemitism is certainly alive an well in the world, but it’s certainly not PC, at least not in the US and by the standard definition of that word. Criticism is rampant about ISRAEL (from both the left and right, but mostly from the left based on my own take), but that’s not the same thing as being antisemitic. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/32 "2011-02-07T22:03:57Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Well I’ll say that I am strongly opposed to anti-semitism. Take that you PC thugs! That’s very brave of you **Larry Borgia**. I will join you in this very unpopular stand. I hope we are not carted off to be beaten, but I’m willing to take that risk. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/33 "2011-02-07T22:12:58Z")
I didn’t make it very far through the slide show but it appeared pretty anit-Islamic to me. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/34 "2011-02-07T22:16:14Z")
> [@AshenLady](#): > > Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. Well, I can’t argue with that. I’ve hated those damn Jews ever since my bris. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/35 "2011-02-07T22:24:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > …I’ve come a long way from those pre-school days at Temple Emanu El. As the Beach Boys sang “Be true to your _shul_”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/36 "2011-02-07T22:27:16Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > …since my bris. Well, ignorance is… No, I can’t do it. It would be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/37 "2011-02-07T22:38:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > As the Beach Boys sang “Be true to your _shul_”. Such a song exists, on one of the Rhino Records compilations. Kind of a listen-once joke. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/38 "2011-02-07T22:42:54Z")
> [@AshenLady](#): > > Anti-semitism is alive and well and politically correct, in these days and times. Yes, just the other day, Helen Thomas and I were discussing how politically correct it is. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/39 "2011-02-07T22:46:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, ignorance is… > > No, I can’t do it. It would be wrong. I’m glad you cut that short. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571/40 "2011-02-07T22:50:28Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Such a song exists, on one of the Rhino Records compilations. Kind of a listen-once joke. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, _Wow, I can get sexual too_ by Say Anything contains the line “I forgot all the rules my rabbi taught me in the old shul”. But everyone assumed he’s saying school, so that’s what the crowd sings in concert. I think even the band sings school now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-very-very-straight-dope/570571.md?page=3)