• foofiepie@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The word is “Shylock”, just to save you a click.

    I had no idea that was a slur, but it makes sense I guess.

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      I have noticed it’s kind of common for older people to say this and not know the origins or antisemitic connotations. If someone who was Trump’s age but a little bit smarter said this, I would think maybe it was intentional but since he’s such an idiot there’s a decent chance he really didn’t know ot was offensive. As much as I hate Trump and all he stands for, I can believe this one was truly accidental.

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        Any time you use a word for a racial/religious group that is not their own chosen preferred name (in this case “Jews” or "Hebrew"s) you’re running a very high risk of stepping into slur territory. This isn’t unique to older generations but they seem to have a harder time understanding it.

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          This one is just super common with old people not thinking through that it might be offensive though. Pretty much all my older relatives use this one occasionally and none of them would be intentionally anti-semitic. Trump isn’t a god of manipulation or anything, he’s an idiot who has the wealth and charisma to make everyone think he’s not an idiot. By ascribing this intelligence and intention to him, you’re kind of falling into right wing propaganda by unknowingly accepting the false premises they are selling to all of us. Trump is an idiot who doesn’t think things through when he says them. His advisors do think things through and do have a lot more intelligence and intention to their words and actions, but Trump himself does not.

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            I agree with you he definitely doesn’t think things through. I also agree he’s using a generational word. I personally think he’s got anti social personality disorder and at the very least he’s a documented dv abuser, they’re manipulative. They can be thick as fuck, but with good manipulation skills

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      For those unaware of the origin, It’s a name of a Jewish moneylender character in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare.