ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
id wager that many people have no idea what the fuck 'shylock' refers to, whether it be billy shakes or greedy jews
id wager that many people have no idea what the fuck 'shylock' refers to, whether it be billy shakes or greedy jews
Although I know what jh is trying to do here, he is proving the point I'm making to rj.
Words matter or they don't. Be consistent. You wouldn't say nigger, you wouldn't say Oriental, you wouldn't say Redskin to a native American, you shouldn't say Shylock, though apparently you would.
Just be consistent.
If I'm wrong that you'd have this exact line of reasoning for a Republican, I apologize. I don't want to put words in your mouth. I'm suggesting, however, that for someone as sensitive as you to anti-Semitism that you consider that some people do consider the word offensive, and that we should avoid using it in kind.
I'll post this again:
You're telling me - an observant Jew - that I don't have a right to be offended by a goy using a very common Jewish slur?A major reason is condescending, ass-kissing, pseudo-know-it-all assholes like you. You tell so many that only you know what is right. You are the board's Cliff Clavin.
You're telling me - an observant Jew - that I don't have a right to be offended by a goy using a very common Jewish slur?
Eat shit.
Try growing up in Winston being called a shylock, shyster, and kike, interchangeably and get back to me.
Comparing the N word redskin to Shylock is ludicrous.
I don't use the word, but like Kitchin says, many think of loan sharks not Jews.
My point about Biden is 100% echoed by Abe Foxman.
How does anyone know his heart and soul?
If you read Foxman's words and genuinely think that, there's no use continuing this discussion with you. You're completely inconsistent here suggesting we should pay some words mind and others we give a pass.
A major reason is condescending, ass-kissing, pseudo-know-it-all assholes like you. You tell so many that only you know what is right. You are the board's Cliff Clavin.
We have ignition...and take off!
Let RJ announce heart and soul.
Except I grew up about 25 miles from where Biden has lived for the past sixty years. In my experience that term was only used towards loan sharks. I never heard it used to a Jew. I heard all the other terms (and worse) but not that one. It was reserved for Italians.
When I went to Wake, I was one of about a dozen Jews. I heard Jew bastard, kike, Jesus killer and other slurs, but again never was called shylock.
As to Biden, he often gets a pass (like he did from Foxman), because people know his heart and soul. They know what he's done for people who have been discriminated against even when it wasn't fashionable. He shouldn't talk off the cuff.
Why are people claiming shyster is anti-semetic? It is reserved for a much worse breed of people - lawyers.