Anti-Semitic United Statesians in shambles?

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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.

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                    1 month ago

                    Nah, it’s fine. Communication is difficult and misunderstandings happen all the time. Can’t be helped really since we all have different sets of knowledge and perspective.