Tag: antisemitism cw

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animatedamerican:

laughlikesomethingbroken:

animatedamerican:

terfs-can-die:

Jews wanting to know if someone is Jewish is very different from goyim wanting to know if someone is Jewish

There’s an old Jewish joke about that, because of course there is.

dare i ask what it is

(look, I left that wide open, somebody had to ask what it is)

So it’s sometime in late-19th-century Europe, and a little old Jewish man is taking a journey by train.  Where’s he going? I don’t know where he’s going, that’s not part of the story.  He’s just sitting there in the train car with his little suitcase, minding his own business, maybe watching the scenery go by, when suddenly –

– suddenly the door between cars opens, and a big burly guy swaggers in and plants himself in the middle of the aisle, and bellows “Are there any Jews in this car?”

Of course there’s dead silence, and of course our guy is frozen, because all his personal and cultural experience tells him that answering yes automatically to that question is not a survival-oriented behavior.

“Any Jews in this car?” the big man repeats, getting impatient – and he looks like the kind of man who gets angry when he’s impatient.

Except our guy is suddenly angry himself, because it’s not right that this kind of question should make him so afraid.

So he drops his suitcase on the floor, thump, and he gets to his feet and he shouts “Yes!  I’m a Jew!  What do you care?”

And the big man looks at him and beams like the sun coming up, and says “Chasdei Hashem!  Come with me, reb yid, we need a tenth for a minyan in the next car.”

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