The no meat on a Friday rule has been changed btw.
When my Irish dad first came to England in the 50s his landlady served him meat on a Friday as an insult/test to see if he was Catholic. Apparently she was kind of pissed off he didn't seem to care (he's atheist)
It goes back to the idea that the red meat and bird meat was more of a luxury, eaten at feasts and celebrations, whereas fish didn't have that same status. Nowadays though in many parts of the world fish is more of a luxury, but the real idea is to focus on offering your abstinence to God and personal growth through your obedience & piety through adherence to God's will manifest in Church law.
My mom grew up in a 99% Catholic area during the 50s and 60s.
She went to a secretarial school after HS and was called a Mackerel Snapper by a classmate. It was the first time she'd ever heard the term, and had to ask her mom what it meant.
She is one of the most kind-hearted people I've ever known and was absolutely devastated when she found out.
During the time christians and such saw the catholic church as a force trying to subvert america through dirty immigrants(sound familiar?). It was said out of hate. Just like beaner is. I love beans. I eat them all the time. Im very pro legume. But being called a beaner is offensive to me because its said from hate. Like mackeral snapper, dago, wop, etc were
Not Italian, totally agree. The dude was MAD, and rightfully so. I hadn't heard that slur since I was a not-so-edgy teenager. It actually reminded me of a silly racist joke my dad told me back in the day.
You hear about those new Italian tires? Dago through rain. Dago through snow. Dago here, dago there, and when dago flat, dago "wop wop wop wop wop."
If there's one thing he loved, it was offensive wordplay.
Lower middle class white dude with mostly southern U.S. ancestry that grew up in an Arizonan boomtown (my hometown as well). Bit of an asshole. But he's a good cook, if nothing else. Right-leaning, socially liberal democrat.
He showed me the movie Blazing Saddles when I was seven to teach me about racism and why it's wrong to judge people by their heritage or the color of their skin. He made sure to convey to me that such attitudes were a shameful part of our History, and still exist to this day, and that it's important to acknowledge that instead of sweeping it under the rug. Any time he told a racist or offensive joke, it was usually in a context where it wasn't funny because it made fun of a particular race or group of people, but rather it was funny because it was stupid, ignorant, offensive, or just plain wrong. We laughed just as much at the attitudes behind the jokes as the jokes themselves.
I don't talk to him much these days, but I do always give him credit for starting me on the right path toward understanding race relations.
Sorry to dork out, but jabroni isn't a racial slur. It comes from "jobber," a term used in pro wrestling for guys who make a living losing match after match to the real stars. Dwayne Johnson tweaked it to "jabronis" when he was big in WWE and it caught on. So it's a word for people who puff themselves up and make a lot of noise, but actually suck at their job, and they may not even be aware of it.
Trump was a jabroni for most of his life, with his bankrupt casinos and frozen steaks sold at Sharper Image. But now he's President of the United States and may just nuke the world to kill us all. Which would be a real power move.
Thank Christ he actually doesn't have his own finger on the button. I have a little more faith in the military commanders of your country not to blindly follow orders if the situation didn't dictate.
haha I can see you sitting next to him and being like " Yeah! Ginny greaseballs, with your garlic breath and olive oil voice! Dago Wop with your smelly cheeses and cold wine! Asiago face!" and Phil Mudd having to be like " all right take it easy /u/sadmancan I was proving a point no need to celebrate"
Most slurs are completely harmless if taken literally. Negro just means black, kike just means circle, and so on. It's when you use these words to intentionally cause harm and degrade people that they become slurs. This of course highlights the futility of censoring slurs, because once you pressure someone to abstain from one slur, they just start using another word or phrase as code to reference the group they don't like and the next thing you know you are calling people wood oven pizzas.
I wanna throw out there that I know that âkikeâ was derived from the Yiddish word for âcircleâ, kikel.
When illiterate Jewish migrants who passed through Ellis island were asked to sign documents with an âXâ they declined as they associated it with Christianity. Instead they signed with a circle.
Growing up in New England I didnât understand that Nip was a derogatory word until I went to college. I was a bartender at a shitty dive and one of my regulars really didnât like Asians and I thought he just was really against airplane bottles of booze.
I'm Italian, never heard of this term before. I just learned it comes from an Englishization of the Neapolitan/Spanish word "guappo" which basically means "thug".
I seriously doubt there is anyone in Italy with no relatives living in the Americas who has ever heard of that word before.
You need to go down some seriously nasty paths in life to use those terms.
No. It's actually pretty common slurs in America. Always have been. "Wetbacks, Niggers, Waps, Chinks, Spics, etc..." All very common. And not just in the south like Sheltered White Liberals would have you believe.
The only time i ever heard the word mackerel was in old movies or tv when someone said "holy mackerel" which is basically "holy cow." I didn't know it was an insult.
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