
Originally Posted by
mashman
Nothing conveys being willing to sell your gran without as second thought like the word jew. Now as far as I'm aware, Jewish family's are very close. Have you not considered that the origin of the word jew began as a sarcastic or irony remark? The Scots are know for being tight. WTF? So ya see, "I" simply wouldn't work, you silly boy. (I have also referred to jews as white muthafuckas).
The word "Jew" comes from the tribe of Judah - the only tribe left in the land of Palestine at the time the Romans invaded in 70AD. You can easily hear the corruption of "Judah" to "Jew" when you say it out loud ... It's been linked to the Religion because the Jews only practise one religion - it's what defines them.
The word became a perjorative term in the way you use it because after the Diaspora many countries made it illegal for Jewish people to be involved in trades, crafts, own land, etc etc. The only occupation left to them was Money-lending (rather convenient that the Christian Churches at the time outlawed Usury) so they had a handy population to lend them money, when their friends and business acquantances could not for fear of invoking the wrath of the church if they charged interest. ) That then lead to the way you use the word - the Jews were practising Usury ... forbidden by the Christian Church as an unholy practice ... Never mind that the churches forced them into it ..
Hence Shylock in the Merchant of Venice - a charicature of a money-lender in what is essentially a racist play ... Also in Scott's Ivanhoe - Ivanhoe cannot marry his first love because she is Jewish and the daughter of a money lender ... and finally the Nazi portrayal of the "dirty jews" ...
The way you use it is certainly perjorative, it is certainly racist and certainly discriminatory ... If you were really serious about the rest of your own philosophy you would stop using this term in the way you do ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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