I agree. Why even use the word “Jew” when such perfectly fine words as “gyp” exists?
What???
Yeah, I think I got this in part because I’m blonde/blue-eyed, and this bitch (deserved epithet for so many reasons!) would never have thought for a second that a) I might be Jewish or b) even if not Jewish, might not approve of nasty anti-Semitic remarks.
I would not be so happy, IIRC many Southern Fundamentalists like Jews because they see them as being one of the groups that will get it on the last days, they expect that many Jews will convert as Jesus will return in all glory in the near future…
…Or be ready for the slaughter if they do not. I would not be happy with friends that could wonder one day why the Apocalypse is not coming and would then do something to make it so.
My point was that some Jews actively feed the stereotype, particularly my friend who makes a production of saying, “Well I do this because I’m Jewish.”
Right.
In my experience the “southern rednecks” (or midwestern, as they may be) like the Jews because they respect Israel. Not really because it has anything to do with Biblical prophecy, but because they respect a people who can fight and fight hard. Israel’s military prowess is very impressive to the ex-military, right wing gun-store crowd. Israel is pretty much universally respected among the “gun nuts,” a group that prevailing wisdom would have you believe are a bunch of Jew-hating bigots.
Much Jew-hatred has, I believe, been sublimated into dislike of groups once associated, rightly or wrongly, with Jews.
Examples: urbanites, academics, intellectuals, smartasses, liberals, left-of-liberals, the so-called “cultural elite,” and people who are obsessive, nitpicking, neurotic, or neurasthenic.
It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between anti-Semitism and stereotypes. The following is a true story.
I know a Jewish guy, let’s call him Sam Weiss. He was one of the only non-Koreans in a Korean law firm. Virtually all business in this law firm was conducted in Korean, which served a Korean clientele. He didn’t understand Korean, but he once overheard a colleague on the phone talking in Korean and mention his name in mid-conversation - “blah blah blah Sam Weiss blah blah blah …”. So he asked why his name came up.
The other lawyer had been talking to a plaintiff suing one of their firm’s clients. They had been urging him to settle out of court, but he insisted that he wasn’t going to do this - he was sure he was going to win in court. And why? Because he had a Jewish lawyer. So the colleague responded “oh, you have a Jewish lawyer, huh? Well we’re going to put Sam Weiss on your case. He’s so Jewish, he only eats kosher!”
Sam Weiss himself thought this was highly amusing, and I guess it’s nice to be thought of as a good lawyer whatever the reason. But my feeling is that this is part of a general stereotype of Jews as shrewd, underhanded schemers. People perceive same qualities as an advantage when they’re being used on their behalf, but they color the overall feelings about Jews in a negative way.
ISTR reading about various anti-Semites who preferred Jewish lawyers and the like, for similar reasons.
Such stereotypes can be self-perpetuating. An example: in the olden days in Ontario, when my parents were growing up in the 1940s, it was widely assumed that there was an “imbalance” of too many Jews in medical schools (there was a similar kerfuffle about an “imbalance” of Asians in Engineering in the 1980s, but I digress). This was thought, by non-Jews, to be highly unfair - “everyone knew” that Jews made “naturally good doctors”, which was perceived as unfair to non-Jews who wanted to be doctors.
The “solution” was institutionalized discrimination - if you were a Jew who wanted to get into medical school, you needed higher marks than a non-Jew to qualify.
The result? If you were sick and wanted a doctor, you would naturally want a Jewish doctor - you would know, in advance, that they were likely to be better - after all, they needed higher marks just to get into school!
Maybe the Sanedrin killed Jesus. Or am I thinking of the Pharisees? IN any event, it was a small elite subset who got the ball rolling, probably for political reasons. It doesn’t validate blaming an entire people for that event, at least IMO.
I’ve only ever met one jew (that I know of… well at least he SAID he was a jew). I’ve never heard anyone say anything that would resemble “jew hate” IRL (I’ve seen it in movies though!). Frankly, I’m beginning to think this whole anti-semitism is a hoax. Even the Nazis here (Sweden) don’t talk about jews. Probably because there aren’t that many around.
I never really got the jew-hatred thing to be honest. Now albanians on the other hand… don’t even get me started.
Well, of course not.
But ‘the Jews’ didn’t kill Jesus, anyway, was my point.
Yeah, you know The Jews, always inventing fake claims of victimization so as better to control the political discourse.
Oh… I see what you did there. :dubious:
Yeah, that used to rally piss me off. Then I kinda saw your side of it. I mean who the hell did he think he was?
I’ll let you know after I rise again. I’ll definitely have cooler sacraments.
"Take this Sam Adams and drink it often in rememberence of me. Then he sliced the pizza into 12 slices and said. “Who’s got the remote? Judas you bastard, hand it over”
I might reconvert…can I keep the coat and hat? 
Surely,
I’m sorry, I’m afraid I need that joke explained
I got this really cool outfitwhen I converted. Your communion is pretty cool, but I’d hate to lose the coat, and particularly the hat.
Is Samuel Adams Kosher?
LOL beautiful! About Sam. I don’t know. Let’s say yes, it’s more fun.