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 Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:55 am
So I was hanging out with my friend one day (who knows I'm Jewish), and I was talking about selling my handmade cards at school. I talked about how I loved owning my own business, making money and stuff. She said, "Wow, no offense, but that's very Jewish of you." What the hell? What do you say to something like that? I mean, if Joe Schmoe the Gentile had talked about money, would she have commented on how Jewish he was being? No. How can people say something like that? She knew it was at least POSSIBLY offensive, or she wouldn't have said, "no offense." How do you respond to this kind of attitude? Has anyone ever commented on your "Jewishness"?
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:50 am
Generally if I make a comment about being able to smell something that someone else can't, the whole "Ah, well, you are Jewish!" thing comes out, but to be fair I think on the scale of anti-Semetism, that scores about a 1.
It's not malicious, it's just a funny comment thrown in by your friends. Instead of worrying about it, it's better to disarm it with a sarcastic laugh or something of the sort. 3nodding
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:24 am
Yes, people have commented, and not in a kindly fashion.
If I'm happy to get my paycheck at a job (because I need milk, eggs, and toilet paper, and would like to pay the electric bill), I'm a money-grubbing Jew. If I make a point of ascertaining details that are actually important (because I'm gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant, and even if I didn't keep kosher I am allergic to shellfish), I'm being a nitpicky, detail-slave Jew. If I object to paying twice what something is worth and insist that I can get the same exact product for a better price at another store, I'm a cheap Jew. If I happen to get my way about anything at all, I'm a JAP. If I don't attend a "holiday party" that is decorated in red and green and Santa stuff everywhere and with Christmas music being the exclusive source of music, I am ...just a Jew, but it's not said in a nice tone of voice.
Yes, people comment. Yes, it indicates an underlying acceptance of cultural stereotypes on the part of the speaker. Yes, it's worth pointing out. And yes, if someone says "No offense," what they mean is "I know you'll probably take offense, because it is offensive, but you're not allowed to say so because I've just said no offense."
BTW, Behatzlacha-S, I love your current avatar. You're just a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Trannslyvania, aren't you?
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:10 am
@ OP: rofl
I find these archaic stereotypes amusing. I say archaic because banks and businesseses aren't soley ran by Jews. In fact, I see more Jewish doctors than anything else.
I also think being frugal and going for the gold career wise are good traits.
Better than being trailer trash who's content with eating butter for dinner and wearing a tube top year round stare
I would definatley learn some come-backs and make people eat their words. They cant get away with that.
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:42 pm
One time I got into a conversation and mention I was Jewish. The person said, "you don't look Jewish." I just ignore it...it happens to other people too.
I also knew a man who called JP meaning Jewish Princess...I dont' really know why he called me that espically when he has a crush on me.
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:55 pm
Kotori82 One time I got into a conversation and mention I was Jewish. The person said, "you don't look Jewish." I just ignore it...it happens to other people too. I also knew a man who called JP meaning Jewish Princess...I dont' really know why he called me that espically when he has a crush on me. Even more infamous is the JAP, Jewish American Princess. You know, doesn't cook or clean or anything, All entitled and Princess-y.... That's the one you hear a lot in some places.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:39 am
I get it so often that it's all in general a blur. I get it when I spend money I get it when I don't spend money, I get it when I take a conservative view on politics I get it when I take a liberal view on politics.
I usually just say "How so?" whenever I get it, especially when someone who has a contrary stereotype running through their head is within earshot.
I pretty much have stopped caring about what people "know" about being Jewish.
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:07 pm
Yeah, I have gotten that before. My mother likes to scrimp and save, so my friends refer to her as the "typical jew." I moved from NY down south-ish, so jewish people aren't very common at my school, so people don't really know how to act. When i'm shopping with friends, if I choose to pass on an expensive thing, it's obviously me being jewish. I always have extra money on hand because of side-jobs that I take, so that makes me a cheap jew as well.
It's kind of insulting. I usually laugh it off, but I think I'll take LordNeuf's advice and say, "How so?"
People aren't used to explaining those kinds of jokes.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:14 pm
I'm converting to Judaism (orthodox) and all the time people talk about how I act so "jewish"...
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:17 pm
Listen, the fact of the matter that as Jews, we do, in fact, have a propensity for business and financial dealings. If goyim wanna b***h about it, let them. But for fifteen hundred years, banking was about the only thing we were allowed to do. Naturally, we got good at it.
Jews are good with money because, until the 20th century practically, Christians, despite their imperialist tendencies, regarded money as 'dirty' out of some half-cocked notion of what piety looked like. So, naturally, they made us deal with it. Any economist out there will tell you that an economy can't function without debt. So, lo and bloody behold, after more than a millennium as Europe's (very necessary) bankers, we end up with all the financial acumen and the goyim are left looking around wondering wtf happened.
So, if someone gives you s**t about being Jewish when you talk about business dealings, just tell them that you're sorry that being a superstitious peasant gets in the way of them leading an equitable life.
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