Prefix is the word you’re looking for. A suffix comes after the qualified term. And it’s still a pejorative.
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The “Jew” in jewfro doesn’t even mean “Jew”, in the regions of the U.S. I’ve lived; it means “non-African.” Any white person who can proximate an Afro will have his or her hair referred to as a jewfro. (I don’t care that Wikipedia says jewfros are for Ashkenazis, they’re for all white people.) A whitefro is a haircut short enough that all the hair stands straight up, like a mini-Afro, I guess. Any man who’s ever had a buzz cut had a whitefro, even if that word is rarely used.
So jewfro is a terrible example of a non-pejorative use of Jew, because Jew in that context means “non-black,” not “Jewish.”
I thought it was a poor choice of words, though indicative of the kind of poor judgment we all exhibit.
I suspect Tom’s mod note was mainly to ensure this didn’t turn into a thread hijack and while certainly a tad hypocritical with the whole “claiming black people are stupid isn’t racist” argument and the board has a well-deserved reputation for having different standards with regards to groups you can hit and groups you can’t, I’d agree with his decision.
I think Dibble would have been better off just saying “Jewish fraternity brothers” which I can’t imagine anyone getting upset by.
Uh-huh. Yeah in the sense that there’s a difference between saying “I hate Jews” and “I hate Kikes”.
I personally see nothing inherently wrong with thug - is there a synonym? I usually use savage - like from Clerks.
Allison (touching Ben’s hair): I love your curly hair. It’s so great. Do you, like, use a product or anything?
Ben: No. That’s uh, I use, uh–“Jew” it’s called.
Well, it was a weird and kind of tone-deaf thing to say, for sure. I thought it definitely sounded insulting. Also kind of surprising, considering the source.
Now I am an old person, and what words mean is probably not gonna change for me, in that when I hear “thug” I am gonna think “armed robber” or “person who might consider armed robbery” rather than any race at all. I know things change (the fact that the Pike frat is banding together with a Jewish frat, for anything, is definitely a surprising turn of events), but I think for most people who actually live and talk in America, “thug” is more going to mean “gangster” and “Jew-bros” is going to be more like “those people.”
I’d need to be convinced by an expert. If the consensus of “men of letters” or “students of the language” or even plain old linguists was that thug had “crossed the line”, I’d probably be convinced. A bunch of anonymous folks on a message board? No.
Yes it was offensive and deserving a mod note.
Not sure that rhyming justifies usage. Generally speaking those outside of a minority community don’t get to make up cute names for that minority community.
This isn’t true in any area of the US I have lived in, including the Northeast and West. (My college roommate was Jewish and had a jewfro.)
If Chelsea Clinton had a 4-inch long hairdo, it’d be a jewfro, not an Afro, not a whitefro, a jewfro. She’s not Jewish.
She doesn’t have a jewfro because she’s not Jewish.
I’ve never heard the term applied to someone who is not Jewish. If it were, I’d consider it a joke. Typically, the person tries to blend their actual ethnicity into “fro”. I’ve heard I-fro from an Irish guy. But never Jewfro form or towards someone not Jewish.
“Thug” became code for “n***er” a few years ago. Part of it was when the Seahawks won a game which sent them to the Super Bowl, and Richard Sherman (who is no dummy) gave a bit of trash talk to the sideline reporter about an opposing player. The sports journalistica (mostly a bunch of old, fat, balding white guys) went all “thuggy thuggy thug thug.” After that pretty much any black guy involved in anything controversial was referred to as a thug.
Sounds reasonable.
Justin Timberlake, a Southern Baptist, is one of the first google images that comes up for jewfro. JT is not a Jew. Hell, when you see a stranger with a jewfro, how could you ever know if they’re Jewish?
Do you think you have to know someone’s religion to identify a jewfro? There’s no such thing as a gentilefro, jewfro means “white person’s fro,” at least, that’s how it’s used by everyone under 40.
No it isn’t.
Still a jewfro.
It’s about the 40th image on the page, not one of the first.
People may occasionally refer to non-Jews as having jewfros, but it’s not at all typical, and not really what the word refers to.
Urban Dictionary disagrees.