Wtf? Cuomo goes to Black church, says Jews can't dance.

[Tanuki]

https://nypost.com/2018/03/25/cuomo-goes-to-black-church-says-jews-cant-dance/amp/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&__twitter_impression=true

..."Gov. Cuomo on Sunday made fun of the “rhythm” of “our Jewish brothers and sisters” during a speech at a predominantly black church in Harlem.

Cuomo strayed onto the risky terrain of religious humor and stereotypes while thanking the congregation at Mount Neboh Baptist Church for the invitation to speak.

“I want you to know as a matter of full disclosure, I am a Catholic. Catholics basically believe the same teachings that Baptists believe,” he said. “We just do it without the rhythm. But we try. We are not as without rhythm as some of our Jewish brothers and sisters.”

Cuomo even singled out the off-beat swaying of Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf, a former campaign adviser who is Jewish, who was sitting in the front row wearing a yarmulke."...(more)

[Kirk Lover]

1. What he was just trying to say is 'White people can't dance'.

[IluvPitties]

4. Stupid stereotype.

Some of the most important figures in the development of Latin music in NY in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were Jewish-Americans. Great dancers and musicians, with incredible understanding of the rudiments of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music.

[Clarity2]

2. Sounds to me like

It was a joke directed at the front pew and his former campaign advisor and the post is making more out of it than it is.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Maybe he should avoid making jokes.

[Cha]

7. lol.. great advice

[Cha]

5. omg! tone deaf much

really? Why would you do that?!

[JI7]

6. this type of joking is common among and in diverse areas

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. This

People's heads would explode if you heard some of the jokes made at quasi political roasts 30 years ago.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. It was another time, another place.

I am constantly censoring myself.

[Igel]

11. Or perhaps it was rooted in that particular time and place.

And as eavesdroppers we're missing most or at least much of the context but can't be bothered to stop to consider this.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. It seems all ethnic jokes are verboten.

I don't know if that's a good or bad thing but for myself I will avoid them rather than find out.

[Blue_true]

9. Whoa, double edged insult. Man that is clueless. nt