Afterwards, the president and his wife congratulated Sykes for her jokes. It seems plausible that he still doesn’t understand that what he did was appalling and disgusting. In Holland, in the post-modern and progressive environment of comedians who don’t have any idea of human dignity, it is by now a regular thing to try to verbally murder your opponent. The latest fad is Holocaust jokes. Such “humor” shows how the joker has disconnected himself from history, social taboos, and ethnic sensibilities. This disconnection is considered a positive quality in the post-religious, post-bourgeois, post-respectful culture of the progressive welfare state. The post-modern ideal is: he who has no values, he for whom nothing is sacred, is cool. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obamas-chilling-laugh-fest-at-the-whca-dinner/