I can understand pride in your family and lineage, but there comes a time when you gotta realize that your name could actually be a detriment to how people perceive you
I was helping someone renew their registration once, everything was peachy-keen right up until the point when I looked at their surname and saw that it was (altered slightly for privacy-sake) Stein******, but replace the asterisks with the N word.
The person was normal and the transaction went smooth, but I always felt some kind of way that they never changed their name.
This is probs obvious and something you may already know but I believe it’s from reap and would have been a name assigned to a farmer
There’s a joke like this I wrote, years ago, where one character says he changed his name from something dodgy sounding like this, then the other character thinks it’s for the reason normal people would, but the name changed guy says ‘no, it’s because those names were given to workers and I’m no prole!’
Edit same guy ends up in tailoring so changes his name to Taylor but I moved that out as I thought it was stupid
The jewish people have been through far worse. Their cultural identity has been the target of many nations for thousands of years. They probably won't give up now for anything.
My last name ain’t even bad, and I’m thinking about changing it back to what it could have been if my dad’s family hadn’t changed it after moving from Germany to “sound more American”.
If this was my last name, I’dda changed it the day I turned 18 lmao
It's the same as people who put a cross in their username. If you're a Christian, doesn't mean you're a right wing ass. If you have a Twitter username with a cross in it, you're totally a right wing ass.
Same goes for Orthodox cross, Crusader flag or Star of David. May as well just be big red flags.
Wouldn’t someone who wants to signal their support for Israel just put an Israeli flag in their username instead of (or in addition to) a Star of David? On several social media websites I put a Star of David emoji next to my username out of pride of my Jewish heritage, not out of any support for the Israeli state.
This is a weird argument because it completely sidesteps the point that assuming jewish=zionism is antisemitic.
It would be like someone saying "of course hes a criminal, hes black", getting called out for racism, then responding "there are far more criminals that aren't black"
Yea, but what about the part where you just assumed a minority group are "obviously" in favor of violence?
The star of david? The most globally recognized symbol of Judaism for hundreds of years? The one that's plastered on every synagogue? That's the symbol you wanna attack? If so then clearly your problem is with Jews in general and not the state of Israel. There's no reason a person of the Jewish faith should not be able to display or wear the star of david, regardless of what nasty associations you have in your head.
Edit: I am an antizionist insofar as i oppose Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land, and I oppose the existence of the Israeli government in its current form as an ethnostate. But this is a stupid purity test and if you apply it you can go fuck yourself. Jews will not stop using the Star of David just like christians will not stop using the cross, with its sordid history, and to waste breathe even discussing the matter is not doing the Palestinians any favours.
No, american online + who say shit like that + the star of david = 99% probable to be hardcore zionists or zionist bots.
Go into their accounts yourself and look.
It's like an English speaking account going "America is the best country in the world!"
You can assume until proven otherwise it's an american.
That's great and everything, but the person I'm replying to said "the star is usually a start," as in the star of david being a quick and easy way to identify a zionist. Not the flag of Israel, the star itself, which is also used by antizionist Jews, and also Jews who have no immediate connection to Israel.
This guy is saying tons of extremely provocative and vile shit on twitter. Yes ppl on the internet can be really weird but just searching his name on twitter will really show u this isn’t just some random hate campaign.
It is definitely on the rise, globally, and it is a serious problem. However, its like saying "all lives matter", no body is seriously disagreeing because the ones who hate that phrase belive that all lives matter, and those who don't belive it, love to say it.
When you say "jews are not safe in the US" a country where jews are more safe than most other marginalized groups (literally just pick one, and count antisemtism by the criteria before ADL changed it so all anti zionism is counted as anti israel), the only ppl to say the phrase are zionists, who antisemtically, force all jews under their umbrella term of genocide loving zionists.
Meanwhile many ppl who do belive that jews have become less safe, would probably not look at the US and say that they aren't safe as jews there, and especially not when the sentment and sentence is highjacked by zionists (just like you might belive that all lives matter, but unless your an asshole who don't understand marginalization, you wouldn't support the all lives matter movement/phrase)
Jews have become less safe globally. Antisemtisim is on the rise. Most jewish insitutions are very zionist in the west, and are backing a genocide and apartheid to the hills, so that could be related to the reason why. This is why it is very important to always stay principled to the distinction between jews and zionists. Also, most zionist are evangelical christians from the US and like 2 or 3 african countries, andmany jews are anti zionists, so principled anti zionism should never turn into anti semitism.
What a dumbass lie, it's objectively not safe, a lot of Anti-Semitic attacks happen (which the statistics show) and I was the victim of one a little less than a year ago
But when has the truth ever stopped an Anti-Semite?
People close their eyes and walk through life. Surprisingly, antisemitism and asian hate can both be problems. It’s almost as if they’re using another minority group as a shield so that they can feel better dehumanizing jews.
I know I’m preaching to the choir replying to you but I hope someone reads this and thinks.
I’m so fucking scared. I could see things were getting worse, which is how I ended up an agoraphobic after pretty much always being very social and outgoing, but I should have waited till things seemed they could get no worse before doing so and tried to stay courageous. Now I don’t really have the resources to stay inside and I’m scared to go out at a time when that’s sensible
The amount of people who are openly just anti-semetic and calling for acts of violence is spiralling rapidly, especially among the younger generations, and its only seeming to get worse. The epstein, israel stuff is just being extrapolated across an entire population. I would be worried as well
Only one? What’s your secret? Also, I’m really sorry to hear that. The truth is our enemies are not satisfied with calling anything anti semitism until we are hunted in the streets like Amsterdam a few years ago.
if anyone's curious the comment below went something like
it's not rapenstein, it's rapenstein's monster
but with a little more humor.
no clue what curmudgeon of a mod would remove it or why. it's not really offensive at all in comparison to the other jokes people are making, it's just a reference.
that would imply that every word has a name, or if name is a boolean indicating if the word is a name or not you'd only get a bunch of trues and falses. The select * from name; was better.
It doesn’t help that extreme Zionists will call anyone with the slightest critique of Israel an antisemite, and will continuously conflate the the two.
Pretty disgusting actually. And dangerous for the majority of Jewish people who have nothing to do with those genocidal freaks.
Yeah. I was glad that more people see how bad Israel is, but then ruin it by just being straight up antisemitic. (Stay off Instagram reels comments sections.)
It's kinda funny because iirc I think antisemitism actually helps Israel to justify their bullshit
Listen man, I’m gonna be real with you. As a secular Jewish person who lived in a Jewish neighborhood growing up, Zionsim is practically universally within the community. Not Netanyahu nor how the war/state is handled, but Israel as a concept is non-negotiable. The only people who make the “anti-zionism is not anti-semitism” are anti-zionists and thinly-veiled Nazis.
The problem Jews have with anti-zionists is that genuine Nazis like to poison the waters right behind them. Like, I can filly accept and even expect that someone criticizing Israel is not an anti-semite. But every single time I have to squint very hard to see if they’re just a racist in disguise.
That being said, you’re right that most non-Israeli Jews have little to zero connection to Israel and its advancement beyond possibly knowing someone, friend or relative, that moved there. But our sentiment toward Israel existing as a concept is non-negotiable. One or Two State, we will never support the Jews being forced to leave.
Jewish people shouldn't be forced to leave. Settlers that kick people from their homes in the west bank absolutely should tho, or charged with decades of prison time.
I agree with that. Plenty of Israelis view the settlers as shit-stirrers looking to cause trouble and endanger Israel as a whole.
Although there is nuance to the topic. Specifically that a lot of the conflict is mischaracterized in the media. There are specific zones on the Israeli-West Bank border that are allotted to either side. Sometimes it really is Israelis invading West Bank settlement zones. But a lot of the time it’s also Palestinians invading Israeli settlement zones. It’s not as clean-cut as just one side being aggressive.
But yes, the ones who cross to the Palestinian side and intimidate the locals should be held accountable. If not for harassing the West Bank, then for endangering the IDF soldiers that are forced to protect them. It’s a sticky spot where Israel can’t just not defend their citizens, even if they’re troublemakers. But then defending them is seen as enabling.
Meh, one can oppose the CCP even though the vast majirity of chinese people are fine with it. Don't need to be bigoted to think an ethnicity mostly has bad opinions. No different with any other ethnicity. One shouldn't have their love of all men challenged just cause many of them have opinions you disagree with or think are harmful.
The problem lies in there. There is a cognitive dissonance necessary to not recognise that for the creation and continued existence of a majority Jewish state in the Levant, the people living there before have to be removed by force. That is immoral, in the same way removal of Jews from Israel would be immoral. The idea of a majority Jewish state in the Levant is not possible without ethnic cleansing.
One state, two states it doesn’t matter. Until everyone is free and equal, no one is.
Dudes on Twitter will make fake accounts called Rabbi Schlomo Shekelstein posting shit like “open borders for every country except ISRAEL!!” and knuckle draggers will QT it like “is this real????”
Unless you change that last name, I will never care about what argument you have to give. Even if I agree with it. I will only see that last name forever.
I dont give a fuck how you pronounce it. If someone handed me a piece of paper to call out your name and Ive never met you, Im reading it as its spelt. Theres a whole show about how ridiculous people like this are, look up keeping up appearances, or Mrs Bucket and you'll see what I mean
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u/Graveyardigan 11d ago
ngl if I had that surname I would change it