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wprager wrote:If you knew someone was Jewish, would you knowingly make that joke? Wll, now he knows.

I consider myself frugal, but I don't look at cost as the only parameter.

spader wrote:

wprager wrote:If you knew someone was Jewish, would you knowingly make that joke? Wll, now he knows.

I consider myself frugal, but I don't look at cost as the only parameter.

If someone is being cheap and I call him cheap only to have him say, "I'm part Jewish and your comment is offensive," the only person being racist is the one that brought the stereotype into the discussion. Unless I'm missing something, the joke had nothing to do with Judaism until you brought it up.

spader wrote:

wprager wrote:If you knew someone was Jewish, would you knowingly make that joke? Wll, now he knows.

I consider myself frugal, but I don't look at cost as the only parameter.

If someone is being cheap and I call him cheap only to have him say, "I'm part Jewish and your comment is offensive," the only person being racist is the one that brought the stereotype into the discussion. Unless I'm missing something, the joke had nothing to do with Judaism until you brought it up.

Riprock wrote:Just for argument's sake, can a perspon really be "a quarter" or "half jewish"?

A Jew is a follower of Judaism, so it is a religion. How can a person identify as being partly belonging to a religion? Aren't you either Jewish or not, Christian or not, Muslim or not, etc.

I also find it weird that a lot of Jewish people identify as being Jew, as if it is their nationality. You don't get people saying "I'm Muslim" when asked the same question as a Jew about "what they are" (as in what Nationality).

wprager wrote:

spader wrote:

wprager wrote:If you knew someone was Jewish, would you knowingly make that joke? Wll, now he knows.

I consider myself frugal, but I don't look at cost as the only parameter.

If someone is being cheap and I call him cheap only to have him say, "I'm part Jewish and your comment is offensive," the only person being racist is the one that brought the stereotype into the discussion. Unless I'm missing something, the joke had nothing to do with Judaism until you brought it up.

Calling someone cheap is one thing. The stereotypical "Jew bending over to pick up a penny" goes a little further. I said I was "cheap" early on in the thread (semi-serious, since I like to think I'm frugal for good reasons), was there really a need for someone else to echo that statement? Anyhow, it was the third or fourth time the picture was brought up -- I had enough of it the second time and said so. What was the purpose, then, to bring it up a third time?

Riprock wrote:But Jewish isn't a nationality, is it? Unless you're from Jerusalem?

wprager wrote:I'm pretty sure that the OP did not post that picture because they knew of my ancestry or even despite knowing it. Clearly they didn't.

Big Ev wrote:What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Riprock wrote:

spader wrote:

Big Ev wrote:What are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Nothing to see here.