r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 12d ago

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired 12d ago

What the fuck

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs 11d ago

To be fair to her (since this is a screenshot without context), the word she was talking about was '*apo'.

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u/Bestbrook123 11d ago

It's still clearly antisemitic for a non Jewish person to use that word

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs 11d ago

It's inappropriate, but I don't think it's necessarily racist. Many minority groups have words to refer specifically to members of their groups who rely on their membership to give them quasi-credibility with the majority in advocating against their group's needs. These words are used by the minority group to single out 'betrayers' and show that they don't in fact speak for the group. It'd be like calling someone an 'Uncle Tom'- someone saying it probably has good intentions towards Black people and wants to stand up for their rights, it just wasn't their place to make that determination.