His change for the "just an average Joe" line reveals the true meaning of the song. It's one of the most ballsy punk songs of all time, almost no one gets it.
@@jimmyb4812 The surface meaning, or at least what I thought when I heard this 20 years ago, was that it's an anti-racist song about not labeling people with skin color. The true meaning is that it's an anthem for American Jews, who despite looking white, consider their culture and race to be separate from European whites in important ways. So the song is about that complex situation, where they look white but don't want to be called white. It's all there in the original lyrics but when he changes the "just an average Joe" line in this performance he spells it out. I say few people get it because I've seen many adults go through life without catching on to this Jew/White distinction, and it was even more unknown when this song was new.
@@iyziejane Huh. I never even thought of that. Going through the lyrics with that idea in mind does make a lot of sense. I think it may be both at the same time, but it definitely does seem to also be talking about Jews.
Of course Fat Mike doesn't want to be called "White" and has an aversion to the label because he's Jewish. I'd love the Whites in the audience to sing back "Don't call me Jew...represents everything I hate"...and then reel off the list. The funny think is everything he sings about could be applied to Jews, but even more details could be added, including the fact that cowardly little Fat Mike was deceptive in his original lyric (recorded version) by mentioning he was merely "An average Joe" and hid his Jewishness.
Thanks jews-pretending-to-be-White. Jews are just a social construct, not a real race or religion. They're the biggest racial and religious supremacists in the world. Just look at Israhell, the Talmud, and Kabbalah for starters.
