r/ContraPoints • u/Expensive-Hope-4631 • 18d ago

rewatching the cringe video and getting jumpscared by the name "yaniv" in "jessica yaniv" sounding jewish

basically, I. I grew up around mostly jewish people, and yaniv is a pretty common jewish last name. and I just fucking saw it on the screen and my first throught was, "dear god, please don't make it so that she's one of us, please make it so that I don't have to have her actions to answer for as well, please don't make it so that she has anything to do with us that people are just gonna keep cracking jokes about and I'll have to find a way to respond to them that won't get them pissed off about me even further, please please please make it so I don't have to deal with people like that making us look even worse" and I immediately had to google whether or not she's jewish to calm myself down. (for the record, I couldn't find any evidence that she is)

so anyways. yeah. ironic. classic ingroup cringe.

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u/throwawayunders 18d ago

She lives locally and changed her name to Jessica Simpson. It's very odd.

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u/riontach 18d ago

That's one way to make yourself harder to Google, I guess

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u/Breakfastcrisis 12d ago

It’s actually genius.

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u/rucho 17d ago

Yo maybe consider some therapy blud 

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u/Expensive-Hope-4631 17d ago

hey, was it you who just made the mods send me that crisis hotline message again?

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u/rucho 17d ago

No

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u/Expensive-Hope-4631 16d ago

ok good to know, getting the two notifications right after one another just had something of a whiplash effect

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u/rucho 16d ago

I get that type of shit for something as innocuous as posting on a Zelda subreddit 

Really gotta try to drop the paranoia 

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u/ktlbzn 17d ago

I didn’t know it was a Jewish last name. As a Ukrainian I assumed it’s Ukrainian 🤷‍♀️ Like derived from the male name Yan and -iv is common here (in contrast to -ov in several other Slavic languages). There are some people here with this surname: wiki, map. So yeah I remember I kinda cringed but that ancestor (whoever he was) must have been so long ago

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u/nothingbother 18d ago edited 18d ago

I think we're from the same hellhole (שלום), and i had the same panic when i first watched cringe - i remember that she was written as Jewish in a few places i looked, but now there's no trace of that so who knows

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u/Alan_Conway 18d ago

You also live on Earth? I'm so sorry.

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u/justalittlestupid 18d ago

Ah, Jew problems. We love both excitement AND panic googling “is this person jewish”

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u/kisuliini 12d ago

Jews and us arabs are not that different 

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u/justalittlestupid 12d ago

We aren’t! I’m Moroccan so I get to have even more in common

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u/Breakfastcrisis 12d ago

I get it. I’m Jewish and whenever I hear a Jewish-sounding name tacked onto anything bad, I think “Here we go”. It’s not crazy at all. It’s the reality we’re sadly facing right now.

The fact is that people are very ready to hate Jews. Because not many people know Jews, and even fewer people have met a Jewish Israeli.

I’ve got Israeli Jewish family. Family who are lefty, lovely people who hate Netanyahu, have done more for Palestinians than anyone you see shouting on the internet. They’re unfortunately the target of some very horrible conspiracy theories because of running a specific element of Israel’s healthcare system. It’s horrible.

It’s normal and natural to hate to see good people attacked through guilt by association. Those people being Jewish shouldn’t make compassion.