Is it just my imagination or do many Jewish people have some sort of weird complex

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Ooops, I apologize for the bad timing, I forgot it was Yom Kippur.

By the way, I didn't say that comments denigrate Jewish people, obviously those are by definition anti-semitic, I was talking about comments like "The food at the Jewish bakery we went to wasn't good". I was also, talking about the other thread where caitlion said something about how she had never seen an (in her opinion) attractive Jewish girl. She qualified it to mean that she had never seen a girl that she knew was Jewish to be attractive; it didn't matter, she was branded an anti-semite. Keep in mind that attractiveness is very, very subjective and that someone I find attractive may not be attractive to you.

Anyhow, I won't go push the discussion any further since it was obviously bad timing on my part to ask the question. Again, I apologize.

exactly, attractive IS subjective, hence it is a predisposition against jewish girls.

Later on in that thread the most beatiful jewish girls were presendted and she changed her tune, ignorance is just a lack of knowledge.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Personally, I think every race/religion/creed have a percentage of people who have a "weird" complex IMO

But did every race/religion go through a holocaust? And now the wound opens....

Actually, many people/countries/religions have gone through some horrible series of atrocities - the crusades, the American natives, Communist China, Stalinism, the Mideast and Atlantic slave trade, various civil wars, etc. That's not to diminish the horror of the holocaust, of course.

its not just the holocaust. its been an endless series purges/mini genocides/persecution etc since they've generally lived as minorities all over the place.

And that is different from any other minority group's experience?

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Personally, I think every race/religion/creed have a percentage of people who have a "weird" complex IMO

But did every race/religion go through a holocaust? And now the wound opens....

Actually, many people/countries/religions have gone through some horrible series of atrocities - the crusades, the American natives, Communist China, Stalinism, the Mideast and Atlantic slave trade, various civil wars, etc. That's not to diminish the horror of the holocaust, of course.

its not just the holocaust. its been an endless series purges/mini genocides/persecution etc since they've generally lived as minorities all over the place.

And that is different from any other minority group's experience?

No.

 

[aphex]

From my perspective as a young jewish man, i would venture that 7/10 times i've heard others mention either Jew/Jewish/Jews the statement made had some form of a negative connotation to it.

Whether the comments were either made directly toward me or was indirectly overheard, its unfortunate that so many people can be so ignorant.

Do i get up in arms every time i hear the word jew? Of course not. But to be honest, i can see why some do. Hell i'm only 23 and i've been called horrible things simply because of my religion, i can only imagine what those of the generations ahead of me were called or overheard.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my imagination? I started noticing it after I saw the Seinfeld episode where uncle Leo thinks everyone is an anti-semite.

It just strikes me as odd since I haven't seen it to a noticeable extent in any other culture. Anyone care to comment?


Please, let's keep this civilized; I don't want this to turn into a flame-war.

You're so freakin imperceptive.

That joke in Seinfeld was meant to mock Jews who accuse everybody of being anti-semitic. There are countless references to WWII in Seinfeld which there wouldn't be is Jews were that sensitive. If anything, they're TOO self-depracating in their humor.

 

[Atomicus]

let's all not forget who put Buddy Jesus on the spot

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my imagination? I started noticing it after I saw the Seinfeld episode where uncle Leo thinks everyone is an anti-semite.

It just strikes me as odd since I haven't seen it to a noticeable extent in any other culture. Anyone care to comment?


Please, let's keep this civilized; I don't want this to turn into a flame-war.

You're so freakin imperceptive.

That joke in Seinfeld was meant to mock Jews who accuse everybody of being anti-semitic. There are countless references to WWII in Seinfeld which there wouldn't be is Jews were that sensitive. If anything, they're TOO self-depracating in their humor.

Are you kidding? Uncle's Leo's character is satirical, who would have thought?!? :roll:

I should have never started this thread, what a mistake that was.

 

[fawhfe]

I dunno, I was friends with like every Jewish person in my high school and not a one of them ever seemed offended. Some of the ones I was closer with interchanged racial slurs with me (since I'm Chinese) because, well, as comedians like Chris Rock has proven, racially charged humor can be really funny if you don't take it seriously, which none of us do. Of course, I'm pretty young and in a really liberal town (Madison, WI) so I'm seeing it from a different perspective probably.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
let's all not forget who put Buddy Jesus on the spot

Italians, Jews, and Arabs?

 

[MisfitsFiend]

But did every race/religion go through a holocaust? And now the wound opens....

How about the multi- thousands of Catholics that were killed in the former Soviet Union...religion was outlawed there for a while, and priests/religious/faithful were tortured, executed...

just one example...