• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago

    Weird how that’s apparently a slur in Yiddish, but “Schwarze” in German (cognate, most likely pronounced the exact same) and “black” (as an adjective, but AFAIK not as a noun) in English (same concept) are generally considered neutral.

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      If you have the stomach for it, you can read Norman Podhoretz’s “My Negro Problem — And Ours”

      https://www.commentary.org/articles/norman-podhoretz/my-negro-problem-and-ours/

      “I think there was a day—first grade? second grade?—when my best friend Carl hit me on the way home from school and announced that he wouldn’t play with me any more because I had killed Jesus. When I ran home to my mother crying for an explanation, she told me not to pay any attention to such foolishness, and then in Yiddish she cursed the goyim and the Schwartzes, the Schwartzes and the goyim. Carl, it turned out, was a schwartze, and so was added a third to the categories into which people were mysteriously divided.”