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[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What? Dog in reference to “Jewish” people has always been towards the gentiles, it even shows up in the Bible.

Dog is a basic insult and not a slur or antisemitic. History and linguistics does not agree with you.

Here’s Cambridge even saying the same.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Hey thanks for this. You are correct that I was confused. I had falsely believed that calling Jews "dogs" was a long anti-Semitic tradition. I did more research and discovered that actually historically they were called rats and lice and very few examples exist of anti-semitics tropes comparing Jews and dogs.

The most salient example of that was an American trend to hang a sign on your shop that said "No Jews or dogs allowed", but that doesn't meet the standard of what I had believed.

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

All good mate. No worries.

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