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[Cave Dweller]

Are you a sock of Steelrails? The guy who made a 12 page thread when I called Koreans Kimberlys.

Look it up in the dictionary. Even Jews (there!! I capitalized it for you!) call themselves that. Or is it now the J word, akin to the N word? Where people not of that group must never use it?

If I wanted to say something anti-semetic, I would. I chose not to.

[northway]

I'm guessing Cave Dweller hasn't spent much time around people of the tribe.

[Steelrails]

This reminds me of the scene in the film 'Gandhi' where the British diplomat says "But we're British, we're hardly an alien power!" and Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinna all just glance uncomfortably down at the floor.

Or this...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/kristi-capel-jigaboo_n_6736670.html

Cave Dweller, let's just say that if you were a person of note, and you used that expression on live TV, you would definitely have to make a public apology and in all likelihood would be fired from your job.

Now, I wasn't sure about your intent, because you said the 'Murica bit, which made me think you were being satirical and playing on the whole exaggerated racism thing in an attempt to show support for Jewish and Muslim holidays. Something I've done as well. That's how I took it at the start, and that's why I posted the "Not sure if serious..." meme. But it appears you weren't being satirical in an attempt to stand up to bigotry but were in earnest. Oof.

Please tell us you were playing an exaggerated character in order to satirize racism. If you did, no problem. Nothing more needs to be said.

[Cave Dweller]

I use the term jew just as I would call Australians aussies and New zealanders kiwis. A slang expression being neither positive or negative.

Steelwails you should talk. You are the one who was posting the term 'muzzies'.

[northway]

[Steelrails]

[Cave Dweller]

Your program. Not mine.

I talked to my co-worker who is Jewish and asked him if he thought the term Jew was derogatory. He said no. However, if accompanied by a negative adjective or nasty tone of voice, then yes. I did neither.

[Cave Dweller]

Steelrails, I guess I can use the N word as long as it is 'satirical'.

I posted a few links. Check out the usage of the word 'jew'. CentralCali, it seems you have a dog in the fight and I bruised your mangina. I apologize for offending you, but I affirm I neither said nor did anything wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jew


In the case of the urban dictionary definition, it says the derogatory term is for someone who is a miser. I wasn't talking about that. I was actually referring to Jewish people.

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[northway]

[Steelrails]

Dude, Cave Dweller, you might want to listen to people on this. The way someone would tell someone from SA that the term "colored" has a completely different context in some places or that the F-word" can mean something different in the UK vs. the US. The expression you used was absolutely verboten outside of a satirical context. I understand your reason and understand that it came from ignorance, not malice. I think it was just one of those mixups that happens within English from different countries.

You could call someone "a Pole" or say he was "Polish". But if you said "I don't support closing on a pole holiday either", that would be a no-no. It would always be a no with abbreviations for Pakistani and Japanese. It would be fine with with abbreviations for British, Swedish, or Turkish. It would depend on the context for Vietnamese.

[Adventurer]

[Enrico Palazzo]

[Cave Dweller]

In your subjective opinion. I don't need holier-than-thou PMs.

I said my piece. I care not to repeat it. I am done with all of you and this thread.

[Enrico Palazzo]

[Fox]

I for one saw nothing offensive at all in what Cave Dweller said.