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Auntie Singe Addams ([info]singe) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-09-22 11:45:00


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Entry tags:food, godwin's, jokes that don't go over well, racism

You got your racism in my coffee! You got your coffee in my racism!
[info]evilgrins delivered a list of bogus food terms to the [info]food_porn community which was kind of amusing but the last definition...

arab coffee: Thick, black, bitter coffee, traditionally served in tiny cups at gunpoint.

...really inspired some, uh, debate.

[info]likeawoman is accused of being likeatroll for staying determinedly offended by everyone but [info]obfuscate brings up Godwins first. "If you replace "arab coffee" with "matzo" is it an insult to Jews? "Haggis" (I hear it's good, but what the hell.. who came up with that?), and it's a comment on how violent those damn Scots are? Put "borscht" in there and you're pissing on the Slavs? "Liverwurst" would then, I suppose, mean that all Germans are violent Nazis."

Nobody likes a laugh more than me. Except for my wife. And Mrs. Johnson.

Define 'Offensive.'

Am I the only one that likes Turkish Coffee?

Why the random-ass definitions anyway?

As a White Canadian Female, let me clarify things for ya'll.



See, this is why I drink tea.



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[info]panthea
2007-09-25 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Oh, don't get me started on the Semitic thing. Like, I totally get that Semitic is popularly understood to refer to Jews and Jews alone, but I'm a word whore and Arabs are a Semitic race too, so the whole thing about "anti-Semitic Arabs" makes my head go kerplooey, 'cause-- WHAT?

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[info]gynocrat
2007-09-25 03:49 pm UTC (link)
You bring up a cool point, because I never understood the etymology. I'm Polish-Jewish; we're about as far removed from shepardic as you could possible get, and yet there's that damn word.

[academese moment]
If I recall, the word was first used by an Austrian Jew [the dude was Moritz Steinssomethingorother] in the mid 1800's, to describe Germanic dislike of 'all Semitic peoples' - and somehow, because he was Jewish, the word was then native to, 'only Jews'.

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