![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:38 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
More funnies from the Metro but something else on the page is bugging me.
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Anyone know what video this Gif is from?
![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:43 |
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Skip to around 11:58 of this video:
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Isn’t it from a Chris Harris video?
![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:44 |
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Ooh. I've always wanted a Porshce.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:45 |
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Of course it’s Harris.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:46 |
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PORSHCE sounds like a yiddish word.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:51 |
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I’m guessing Yid isn’t a racial slur in your part of the world.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 16:53 |
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Think so
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:20 |
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???
“Yid” may well be used as a slur, but Yiddish isn’t.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:22 |
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Oy vey.
Yiddish is a language. Yid is a slur. Hebrew is a language; Hebe is a slur.
See the difference?
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:25 |
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Both are according to the email I was sent by the Soccer/Football team I support. Our rivals have strong Jewish heritage and we were warned against making certain chants which was odd since the whole game our rivals were chanting “Yid Army”.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:27 |
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Yiddish was included in banned words supplied by the Soccer/football team I support before a match against our rivals who have strong Jewish heritage. The weird thing is they spent most of the game chanting “Yid Army”.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:27 |
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this is reminding me of the “Jew” conversation on Always Sunny....
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:31 |
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So what do you call the language, then? It’s not Hebrew, it’s not German, it’s Yiddish . It doesn’t have another name.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:35 |
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What a schmuck.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:37 |
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No idea. Yid is the same as Slope to me. A word that I was told was racist and just went with it. I’m not gonna start chanting Yiddish Scum but it is always good to have ignorances cleared up.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:45 |
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“Jap” is also a derogatory term, but talking about the Japanese language isn’t offensive. Words like spiel, glitch, mazel tov, chutzpah, tchotchke, putz, and klutz are all Yiddish words or are at least of Yiddish origin.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 17:52 |
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Is it? Huh, I essentially making the same mistake here by trusting someone else that a certain word is racist but I’d rather be corrected than racist.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 18:10 |
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Often when speaking negatively about other races, people will shorten the proper term. Many slurs are just variations of the proper terms. “I’m not driving that Jap crap”, “Those damn Japs”, “That damn Jew”, “Those Yids”, Chink, Yank, Heeb, Injun, Kraut, Nip, etc. “Nigger” is just a variation of “negro”, which was once the proper term for a black person (negro means black in Spanish). Now, even negro is no longer acceptable.
Basically, any time you modify or shorten the proper term for an ethnicity, you can bet it can and will be used negatively.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 18:17 |
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Where do you live out of curiosity? Learning about Racism outside the UK is a lot more interesting than it should be and I would like some Context.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 18:24 |
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Canada, eh.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 20:00 |
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“A word that I was told was racist and just went with it” should be right up there with “here’s why that’s a problem” for our generation’s motto. Never had any real problems so we have to keep inventing them.
![]() 05/24/2015 at 20:42 |
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How is not racially offending someone a problem?
![]() 05/24/2015 at 22:14 |
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So your team thinks Yiddish is a slur? That’s seriously strange.
![]() 05/25/2015 at 04:14 |
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After some discussions and thought, I reckon it is probably a context thing. For example don’t chant “Yiddish scum”.
![]() 05/25/2015 at 07:35 |
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It’s more that we’ve made a competitive sport of coming up with countless new ways to be offended, and have trained ourselves to just add everything to the taboo list instead of thinking critically.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opi…
![]() 05/25/2015 at 09:18 |
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Now that’s very true :)
But I can’t think of any context where “Yid” wouldn’t be at least perjorative and probably a slur...
![]() 06/04/2015 at 10:19 |
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That’s Italian. It’s a Pors-chay