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On 1/10/2018 10:48 AM, Roger Hayter wrote:
GB wrote:

On 10/01/2018 00:09, Rod Speed wrote:

They arent all that expensive, but I'm so jewish I want to check


Am I being overly sensitive, or does this jar with other readers?


If he actually *is* Jewish, I suppose he is allowed to make such
remarks, otherwise it is offensive precisely because of its casualness.
At school in Yorkshire in the 1960s "to jew" was a transitive verb
meaning to cheat someone, but I thought manners had improved since then.
To use Scottish in the same context is somewhat less offensive (but
still rude), as no-one has victimised the Scots for some centuries; and
then it was largely other Scots.


I remember Mr Lavine a Jewish property developer in Paisley who when I
asked him to cut back an overflow sticking out over a pavement joked he
would make it "jewish".....I wouldn't have dared to say a thing like
that...tee hee

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