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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I am continually amazed by the people here in the Midwest who don't realize that phrases like "jewing down the price" or "we got gypped" are ethnic slurs.
In 1994, when I lived in Spain, I was explaining to a friend about how I had to carry laundry for a considerable distance and that is why my shoulder ached and he said, "Debes comprar un negro." I was utterly floored.
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I heard "he jewed me" and "kike" before I knew what a Jew or Judaism was (well before I knew it was offensive). And we played "smear the queer" too. The neighbor kids called bottle rockets with the stem cut off "n***** chasers". The midwest, just like the south, is full of ignorant hillybilly redneck crackers. It's improved, but not by much.
