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Is the Term "Jew" Offensive?

Is the Term "Jew" Offensive

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 3.1%
  • No

    Votes: 49 51.0%
  • Depends on how it's used

    Votes: 44 45.8%

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It's come up in a thread that some people might consider the word "Jew" to be offensive or insulting. Is "Jew" offensive? I ask this in all sincerity because I do use the word and it hadn't occurred to me that it might be a bad thing to do.
 
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Can you give us an example of how you're using the term?

For instance, are you calling people Jew-loving subhumans?
 
It's come up in a thread that some people might consider the word "Jew" to be offensive or insulting. Is "Jew" offensive? I ask this in all sincerity because I do use the word and it hadn't occurred to me that it might be a bad thing to do.

I saw that post and almost posted. No. The word Jew is hardly offensive. Personally, I don't call someone a Jew -- I say, "He's Jewish." But I don't see Jew as a derogatory term. It's who they are.
 
Can you give us an example of how you're using the term?

For instance, are you calling people Jew-loving subhumans?
Personally, I don't use it like you're describing, but I have said it tongue in cheek, like "The Jews rigged the poll". I also use it to mean a Jewish person.
 
Personally, I don't use it like you're describing, but I have said it tongue in cheek, like "The Jews rigged the poll". I also use it to mean a Jewish person.

We say that all the time. But when i'm joking around about the ZOG paranoias, I usually use the term Joo.
 
It's come up in a thread that some people might consider the word "Jew" to be offensive or insulting. Is "Jew" offensive? I ask this in all sincerity because I do use the word and it hadn't occurred to me that it might be a bad thing to do.

Generally no - unless it's used to *be* offensive. . . which you gleam from context.

The shortening of "Japanese" to Jap offends people beyond belief - yet in my previous employment (jeweler) we were shorten all long words to their first 3 letters for technical-writing purposes. Japanese was a name of a mesh-pattern. It would be shortened to "jap" in the same way European = Eur, Persian = Per. . . etc.

But people would see it and flip their lid.

But they'd see "neg" and think nothing about it - eventhough it was short for 'negro' (a color reference)
 
zog? ......

Zionist Occupational Government (the idea that a shadowy cabal of Joos control the world's governments and particularly that of the U.S.). It's frequently put forward by neo-nazis, Islamists, and a couple of posters on this forum.

IMO, it's a red flag that is a dead tip-off that you're dealing with someone that is actually anti-semitic.
 
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Zionist Occupational Government (the idea that a shadowy cabal of Joos control the world's governments and particularly that of the U.S.). It's frequently put forward by neo-nazis, Islamists, and a couple of posters on this forum.

IMO, it's a red flag that is a dead tip-off that you're dealing with someone that is actually anti-semitic.
Yes, I've encountered this here and on some other forums. One guy claimed even claimed he was anti Zionist, not anti Jewish.
 
The word Jew itself isn't offensive.

However, one can use it in such a way as to insult by implying it as some kind of negative.

"Look at you skimping on the check, you're such a jew".

"Man, why'd you have to go and be a Jew, you could've afforded those concert tickets"

Etc.

In those cases, the person is attemtping to use "Jew" as an insult by suggesting negative stereotypes that are commonly assigned to the people the term references. That doesn't make the term "jew" in and of itself offensive, but rather the way the person is using it.
 
Man, you got jew'd by that salesman.

What's wrong with you, why you jewing me?

I HAD that HS, wtf so jew.

Examples of offensive use of the word JEW.
 
No it isn't, but depending on the context in which a person uses the word it can be seen as offensive. Like when some people call me a Yank to show their hatred for the North.
 
It's not typically offensive, however this man makes it so.
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As always, depends on context. We had a poster here that called me "Jew" with absolute intent to be offensive. Other times I've been called "a Jew" with no offense intended. If you think about it though, calling someone "a Jew" sounds aggressive. Usually better to call someone Jewish.
 
reminds me of a joke I heard many years ago. there is a young boy, half black half jewish, one night he asks his father, "Dad, am I more Jew or more black?". Dad is confused and answers, "I'm not sure son, why do you ask?"
Son replies, "Jimmy down the street is wanting to sell me his bicycle for $10 and I need to know whether I should try to talk him down to $5 or just steal the son-of-a-bitch."
 
The term itself couldn't possibly be offensive, as it simply means "a Jewish person."

It could certainly be used in a disparaging or offensive context... but then again so could any other ethnic descriptor. If someone used it in a tone of voice indicating that they considered it an epithet, it could be taken that way... but tone is also a form of context.


I never really thought about it before, but for some reason I usually say "Jewish" when referring to an individual, and "Jews" when referring to a group. I suppose because "Jewish" sounds less abrupt, therefore more polite to my Southern ears.
 
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The word Jew itself isn't offensive.

However, one can use it in such a way as to insult by implying it as some kind of negative.

"Look at you skimping on the check, you're such a jew".

"Man, why'd you have to go and be a Jew, you could've afforded those concert tickets"

Etc.

In those cases, the person is attemtping to use "Jew" as an insult by suggesting negative stereotypes that are commonly assigned to the people the term references. That doesn't make the term "jew" in and of itself offensive, but rather the way the person is using it.
I guess I always thought if somebody was referring to something that's completely inoffensive (as I think Jew is), there's really no reason to be offended, even if it's meant in a bad way. Like if somebody referred to me as Christian or a SoCon, I wouldn't see either as being insults even if they were meant that way. Your examples of equating Jew with miserly are good ones though, and I could see where that would be offensive.
 
The term itself couldn't possibly be offensive, as it simply means "a Jewish person."

It could certainly be used in a disparaging or offensive context... but then again so could any other ethnic descriptor. If someone used it in a tone of voice indicating that they considered it an epithet, it could be taken that way... but tone is also a form of context.


I never really thought about it before, but for some reason I usually say "Jewish" when referring to an individual, and "Jews" when referring to a group. I suppose because "Jewish" sounds less abrupt, therefore more polite to my Southern ears.

After I posted, I thought: I've never said, "He's a Jew." I have said, "He's Jewish." That's an interesting differential.
 
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