[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

We're not talking about some old-fashioned joke which might be "frowned on" in the modern world. We're not even talking about an old ethnic slur which may have been common in Whelan's youth. We're talking about a centuries-old lie which should have been abandoned outside the gates of Auschwitz in 1945. And given that Whelan was eight years old when the concentration camps were liberated, you'd have thought it might have made some kind of impression on him, or made him ask a few questions. ("Mummy, why did the Germans kill all of those people?" "Well, son, they told lies about those people, and they repeated those lies until people accepted them as the truth. After that, they could do whatever they liked." "Thanks, Mummy. I'll never believe those lies myself, and I certainly won't go spouting them in a press conference in seventy years' time.")