gillywulf
replied to your post “You do know that goy or goyim is mostly used as condescending way to…”
As a Jewish person, I’m going to have to refute this. It is NOT used the same way as “heathens” or “kafir”. Goyim are simply non-jews, that is IT. The context you’ve been seeing it in on tumblr is often heated and angry (usually justifiably) which is why the question asker might think so.
Yeah. I mean it didn’t even occur to me to consider it a genuinely hurtful word. My half-brother is Jewish, and my experience with Jewish insults (mostly Yiddish, to be fair; I know Hebrew can be a bit different) has been that there are many but they are largely wielded with a wry and often charming touch. Unless somebody takes pains to make it clear they’re trying to be hurtful, I generally assume that the worst that’s being leveled at me is a sort of exasperated joke.
My experience is also that if a Jewish person genuinely wants to insult you, you are not going to have any question that you’ve just been dragged. And I might suggest you ask yourself what you might’ve done to make them react that way.
I probably ought to leave it here, because I’m really not the one to be sorting the ins and outs of somebody else’s culture. But yeah. Generally not feeling a lot of violence there.
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