Anti-Semitic United Statesians in shambles?

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    1 month ago

    Famous Jewish assholes: Judy Blume, Elie Wiesel, Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, Mel Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders and, of course, the queen asshole herself, Anne Frank.

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        1 month ago

        No he isn’t. And Anne Frank wasn’t the queen asshole herself. What does that suggest about my comment?

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            1 month ago

            My comment: sarcastically claiming a list of really cool people who were Jewish and definitely not assholes were actually assholes.

            You: “Bernie Sanders is an asshole? Never seen him portrayed as such.”

            What am I not understanding?

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              1 month ago

              I don’t know. What do they have to do with Columbus being known as an asshole?

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                1 month ago

                Ah, so that’s the part we were at.

                Cool.

                Headline: “Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish, documentary reveals”

                You: “Is that supposed to explain why he was known to be an asshole?”

                So if you didn’t mean being a Jew explained why he was an asshole, did you mean that being Spanish explained why he was an asshole? Because I can list plenty of non-asshole people from Spain too.

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                  1 month ago

                  Well, you really didn’t understand my comment then. It was a jab at the title.

                  Does his ancestry change any of his deeds? Nope. So he was part Jew. Whoop-dee-doo. Who cares. Why should it matter?

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                    1 month ago

                    Looking at the downvotes, I don’t think I was the only one who misunderstood, but thank you for clarifying. I agree. It only matters in an academic sense.