What is the reason for POLISH jokes ?

Any link or evidence for that?

As far as I know there never was a movie called "The eternal Pole" or "Pole Zeus" etc.

Oh stop it. Even though the Nazi Germans were sick human beings they were still human beings and still knew how to tell and laugh at jokes. Especially when they were mocking those they hated.

How do you explain how Germans loved laughing at German movies like the "Eternal Jew" or "The Jew Zeus" where Jews were portrayed as having "rat like" qualities?

Here Hilter and his German audience are having a good laugh when the allies were telling Nazi Germany not to invade countries

Hitler comedy

Because they were Jews?
Were there no polish Jew-jokes?

Again...bring some evidence for your ramblings!

And if it was the Nazi-Germans how come the polish joke is kind of international?
Were the horrible Nazis so popular even in GB or the US that the polish jokes thrived even as the hated Nazi regime got fighted?

How logical..


Yeah...and Hollywood is so german Nazi! :)


Any link for that????
Any links for your long ramblings at all at all??? :):):)
Germany was at war with the "subhuman" Russians too..where are the famous russian jokes?

Think MediaWatch...THINK!

Hollywood pushed the stereotype that Poles have subhuman intelligence in their movies. Like recently in the movie "Land of the Lost" with Leftist Polish-hater Will Ferrell. Then there were other anti-Polish movies like "SWAT" and the first "Bruce Almighty". So here it is Poles are doing absolutely nothing yet their being attacked with repetitive big lie propaganda.

Origin of the Polish joke: https://polishforums.com/life/reason-jokes-6419/4/

Why should they do that?

How about that?
Since polish jokes are older than the Nazis...


or this


PS: I know about the horse-against-tanks-myth...and it is exactly that a myth or war time propaganda (as every side in this war was guilty of).

Nothing comparable to the enduring polish jokes from before the war and for long after the Nazis were history!

Yes isn't that amazing? Hollywood is against Nazi propaganda EXCEPT for when its against Polish people.

Its just like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were AGAINST each other YET they still had a LOVE affair on somethings like destroying Poland together with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Were are the many anti-german jokes as Germany was the main enemy in two world wars?

You should think logically here....the Nazis didn't invent the jokes, nor does Hollywood care enough to pester the world with it.
Every ethnie has to bear their stereotypes and the jokes coming with it.
Not everything in this world is centering around Poland! :)

But there are different kinds of Polish jokes.

The early Polish jokes in the US were along the lines of anti-immigrant jokes that all groups got. The subhuman intelligence jokes about Poles were always popular in Germany (at least the stereotype that Poles have inferior/subhuman intelligence) and was later pushed in Nazi propaganda.

But in the US it was Hollywood that pushed it not the Germans per se.

You say that because you are a Pole!
(Don't tell me you never laughed when other people were mocked and the victim of some stupid stereotype joke)
Get a grip and laugh at them and don't throw a tantrum every time that makes people only conscious of it and next time they will pester you purposely knowing how much they can hurt you with that.

Stop giving them this weapon and grow up!

Its not so much the "jokes" per se, its the stereotype that Poles have subhuman intelligence. It was propaganda pushed by certain nations and Hollywood which then turned into so called "Polish jokes".

It was obviously used to degrade Poles. And yes the world does not revolve around Poland but WE are on a Polishforum aren't we? The topic is Polish jokes isn't it?

Which begs the question why is a German like you on here all the time? I put up a message and within minutes you're responding to it and I haven't been in this forum in months.

So...which denigrating stereotype you would rather have instead? ;)


I can't sleep...:)
(And I have DSL)

Well to be frank with you I might have liked hearing a joke about a terrorist nation or a nation that's against America. I usually just like laughing at people who are Osama Bin Laden like or Nazis since they obviously are bad people. I like laughing at bad people not good people.

But I can see the Nazi German is coming out of you.

You must love that "Schaudenfreude" which is the German word that means taking delight in negative things happening to other people.

Well...fit's somehow with your other ramblings.
All wild accusations, no substance!


See? And do you see me throwing a tantrum over you spouting an anti-german stereotype?

So I guess you feel you have to "keep an eye on those Poles"? LOL

Why would you be interested in a topic on Anti-Polish prejudice anyway?

A joke is just that. I wouldn't take it literally, it's not a racial slur. I haven't seen 'Land of the Lost' with Ferrell, but when he's funny, he's hysterical.

I'm not. You calling the Germans as the ultimate culprits is...

Well I was only responding to your cocky answer on #170. Giving you a taste of your own medicine.

By the way NOBODY I know tells me any Polish jokes (or really any ethnic or racial jokes) because they know better. I have always found that when people simply know that they are saying something bigoted, they stop. Just like I wouldn't tolerate somebody demonizing Germans of today who are not affiliated with Neo-Nazis.

What was "cocky" in that post?


Then what is your problem? Can't sleep either??? :)

Germans of 2009 are not any kind of culprits unless they are affiliated with Neo-Nazi groups.

hey im polish and no offence to the people who actually tell the jokes but im real sick of it and nobody wantes to be my friend just becuase im polish!!! Well, im not ashamed of my nationatlity. no friends becuase im polish.... sounds alittle racist. dont ya think?

What's funny is that every nationality has a dumb joke about them. So it's just other people stereotyping others for some reason. Maybe it's because they just don't understand them.

It's annoying as hell but what can you do?

Antipolish sentiment, poor hisorical education of American people and manipulation by massmedia serve for the some groups for their own agendas.

Some people are so ridiculous with all this anti-Polish sentiment. I once had dinner with three guys who are involved in the adult entertainment industry. They told me how they had a new girl in the business who literally had a tattoo on her butt that read "Pollacks are ugly, they'll never get a piece of this tooshie." All of the guys happened to be Polish so it was only natural for me to ask them how they felt about this. One guy said he didn't care, one of them was offended, and the third guy was just excited at the thought of nailing her in the ass with the tattoo on it.


The Germans did push the jokes about Polish people having subhuman intelligence. I'm not saying it originated in Germany first but it was certainly big over there especially when the Germans killed millions of non-Jewish Poles and targeted the intelligence.

Could it have anything to do with WWI, when Poland decided to joust on horseback against German tanks?

WWI ???

Its a myth. Nazi German propaganda to ridicule Polish. Its sad that ppl still believe in that.
The myth has its roots in Charge at Krojanty
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_at_Krojanty

Actually it's mostly Jews ,who control the media, that hate Poles, and allow or even encourage anti Polish movies or programs to air. They believe that we are just as guilty as the Germans for what happened to them in WW2. I've had one Russian Jew tell me, "it was the Germans who put us in concentration camps, and you who threw us in the gas chambers" can you believe that? They're alot less frequent nowadays than lets say in the 80's. I've even read a few recent articles by Jews defending Poles, saying that many did in fact help them, telling the truth.

Well....just saying that the polishy cavallery against tank myth was cabled home by an american journo and not so much a Göbbles spin.

And if it was all about Nazi propaganda it doesn't explain the existence of polish jokes BEFORE and AFTER the war.

The Nazis were bad but not THAT bad....;)

I've read the famous William Shirer wrote the first time to a wider audience about it as he was in Poland writing about the german invasion..

I really don't think he tried to mock the Poles (as he had big sympathies for them)...he couldn't stand the Germans (wonder why), so it was surely rather admiringly meant!

funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Pomorska-Brigade---The-Real-Story-193472.html


historynet.com/polish-cavalry-charges-tanks.htm

Polish jokes originated in the Polish American community. Polish Americans poking fun at recent Polish immigrants who would be ignorant about American life. These jokes occur in America because of all the recent immigration and the immigrants are usually the very poor and ignorant!! and let's not forget, Americans joke about everything.

Germans making fun of Poles? Germans are totally devoid of a sense of humor (like many people on this forum).

*nods*
The clear evidence that we are innocent!!!!

:)