<scans thread> Oh goodie!
Of course Jews have horns, silly!
I have a friend from the South who was dating a Jewish guy when she found out my mom is Italian. Her immediate response: “Let’s get your mom together with [boyfriend]'s mom and my mom! We’ll never stop eating!!! :D”
(And, for the record, the boyfriend was the first Jewish person she had ever met, she did not think he had horns, and his being Jewish didn’t have any effect on their relationship or breakup. And neither of them were amused when I asked if their first time involved the phrase “Where the hell is your foreskin?”)
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You win the thread. Here is your nice shiny internet.
I know Jewish people who’ve been asked this question within the last 10 or 15 years. I wasn’t there when they were asked, but they were close friends and I have no reason to doubt them. Maybe it’s a belief that is dying out, but you can always find backward, stupid people.
IIRC though that’s one of the few extant examples found. It seems that the notion of “No Irish Need Apply” as a widespread phenomenon in the United States is largely a myth.
That’s fascinating but it isn’t a sign saying “No Irish Or Dogs.” I’m specifically challenging that claim.
Of course the Irish were once discriminated against, everyone knows that I would hope.
The OP asked if such signs existed. They did.
The “No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish” thing seems to have been more a British phenomenon. You can find plenty of accounts of people having seen the signs at boarding houses across Britain into the '60s, but anecdotes aren’t the same as documentary evidence etc.
A myth except for when it actually happened?
You don’t comprehend too good do you? One example doesn’t prove that it was a widespread phenomenon. For more information read this. Even if Jensen is wrong and such notices were more common but have somehow not survived, it doesn’t seem likely they were nearly as common as the folk memory suggests.
I guess I just read AT’s question as asking whether signs saying “No ___” ever existed. I didn’t catch that he was asking whether they were literally listed on a single sign along with dogs. I see that as a distinction largely without a difference, though. We know exclusionary signs existed.
And I responded to your accurate response with supplementary information about the probably exaggerated folk memory of such signage, information I believe AT and others might find interesting and relevant.
“Widespread phenomenon” wasn’t the question, fuckhead. The question was did those kinds of signs “ever exist.” Obviously they did exist, so were not mythical.
Such (somewhat more subtle) practice is notedhere.
Again, I believe the No Dogs, No Jews signs were something that appeared more in Canada (or from what I’ve read/seen). Scram!
:rolleyes: I never said they didn’t exist, as I’ve already stated.
The answer to the OP’s q was yes.
Got any cites that date your signs? I doubt it.
What difference do the dates make?
How are there doubts even after cites have been provided and firsthand accounts? Seriously, sometimes the Dope is aggravating as all get out.