# Vampires, crosses, and hate speech **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350 "2012-01-04T05:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/21 "2014-10-26T21:00:31Z")
from the TV movie [Blood Ties](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101477/): > [@](#): > > Vampire is such an ugly word! Don’t let me hear you say that again. We’re Carpathian-Americans! I also remember a couple of episodes of _Angel_, in which Angel and Wesley saved people from being killed and eaten by demons, only to be castigated for disrespecting the demon’s culture. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/22 "2014-10-27T01:58:37Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Whether it’s sincere or not, I consider it a damn good prank on you for being an impatient driver. Sorry, but I don’t get to live for centuries. :mad: They should understand that we’re a bit more in a hurry than they are. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/23 "2014-10-27T10:44:15Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > \*I recall a short story where a Soviet bureaucrat discovers vampires and whips out a cross against them. A vampire takes the cross from him and shakes his head sadly; “Comrade, Comrade! And I thought you would be a good Communist to the end!” Bennett Cerf told a story of a young girl confronted by a Wolfman. When she holds up a cross, he replies, “Oy vey, you got the wrong volf!” ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/24 "2014-10-27T11:15:12Z")
When I taught religious school at the synagogue, we had a discussion every year about how a Jew would fight a vampire. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/25 "2014-10-27T14:11:50Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > When I taught religious school at the synagogue, we had a discussion every year about how a Jew would fight a vampire. And…? ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/26 "2014-10-27T14:28:00Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > And…? Imagine trying to make a Star of David out of found objects when being attacked. Oy vey! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/27 "2014-10-27T14:53:24Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Imagine trying to make a Star of David out of found objects when being attacked. Oy vey! > > 😉 They’d make good throwing stars, though. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/28 "2014-10-27T15:07:32Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Imagine trying to make a Star of David out of found objects when being attacked. Oy vey! > > 😉 If they were at a pool hall (billiards) they could simply grab two ball racks and position them appropriately… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/29 "2014-10-27T17:41:12Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Last night as I was coming home I found a “goth” taking her sweet time walking across the street. When the light turned green and I was still being held up, I honked my horn at her. You know what you’re supposed to do when you see a goth that is actually running? Roll down the window and yell “Hey, where’s the funeral!” (That one is from Doug Benson) ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/30 "2014-10-27T17:48:12Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Pat: “There’s a vampire in the road! Quick–show him your cross!” > > Mike: “_Get outta the damn road, ya bloody git!_” There’s currently a Halloween card featuring this joke only the humans are nuns. The punch line is “Get the @$#\* our windshield.” I have sent out over a dozen of them to long distance friends. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/31 "2014-10-30T13:43:55Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Um, are you sure that wiki is the wiki that you think it is? Totally missed this the first time around. Whoosh! ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350/32 "2014-10-30T15:38:02Z")
So… the vampire was delaying your travel in a way that was not creating a dangerous set of circumstances for you. Yet you respond with a object that inflicts actual pain (if not damage) to the other person? Complete over reaction. Hate speech? No. Assault? yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vampires-crosses-and-hate-speech/608350.md?page=1)