The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust has condemned comedian Jimmy Carr over a joke that surfaced from his recent Netflix special about the Roma people. In a widely shared clip of the stand-up show their dark material– which arrived on Netflix on Christmas Day – the comedian tells the audience: “Strap in everyone, are you ready?” “When people talk about the Holocaust,” he adds, “they talk about the tragedy and horror of the Nazi war machine killing six million Jewish people. But he never mentions those thousands of Gypsies.” who were killed by the Nazis.” “Nobody ever talks about it because...
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