Screen grab from “Taco Nazi”
Yesterday I wrote a piece about an animated video that was released this week which added a layer to a Charlie Demers comedy bit.
The audio track came off of the Vancouver comedian's Juno-award nominated comedy album, Fatherland. Much of the album deals with race and, specifically, nazis and how awful they are. The video that was released by his record label and animated by Atomic Cartoons adds visual elements to a story about how he sits down at a gathering of ethnic food trucks in the U.S.A. and is in disbelief as an actual nazi pulls up. He's angry that the nazi is all about how great the white race is but is ordering tacos from a Mexican food truck.
While it's a story that contains laughs the message that Charlie gets across is that nazis can f**k off. I posted it agreeing with that sentiment, but I hadn't realized that yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It was an inappropriate time to be sharing the story, to say the least. The day should be reserved for somber reflection on the most horrific genocide in history, not for jokes. This is my apology first to people who were affected by the holocaust, and their families, and second to the rest of our readers who hold us to a higher standard. I personally screwed up and this one is on me. I'm sorry.
