In the early days of the Internet in the early 90s, people in chat rooms and forums shared jokes. When the jokes started being more offensive to specific races and ethnicities the various chat room and forum moderators (only a handful of mods) decided to make a rule that any offensive joke was allowed as long as the subject of the joke was replaced with "ethnic" or "ethnics" with the theory that if the joke was good enough the reader would infer the subject of the joke.
All of the jokes were going great-- "three ethnics walked into a bar..."; "an American, a Canadian and an ethnic were on a plane..." Etc etc.
Until the latest joke started out, "Two ethnics were walking down the street when they bumped into their rabbi..."
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