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  • It’s kind of one of those old-timey ones. I think I’d hear old farts saying that one was I was real little and my parents just told me it was thought of as antisemitic at that time (this was the 1970s). I remember a teacher explaining the same thing in sixth grade, IIRC. The old farts I’d hear saying that one, would be the same types that would not think twice about saying how someone “jewed them down” on a price negotiation. It’s one thing not to know the Shylock connection, but using Jew as a verb is quite another.

    They’d also say things like someone “gypped” them, but that one stuck around for a lot longer in mixed company, JFC. I think part of the reason is that there are very few Gypsies in the USA and a lot of people honestly didn’t really make the connection between that term and the people.






  • Thank goodness. I hated it when he left the first time.

    The people after him, before he came back, were…okay, but just not enough of an edge, overall. Sure there might have been a bit more “representation”, but it seemed to be more bothsiderist than not in the outlook. That might be because Trevor just seems to be a really nice guy and more of an outsider on American politics. When they had guests hosts after Trevor and before Jon came back, the quality varied a lot.

    I kept seeing a push around that time to try to get Leslie Jones into what seemed like everything, and, wow, I just don’t like that style at all. Around that era, I was really worried they’d give the show to her. I was hoping that someone like Sarah Silverman might helm it. But really happy that Jon decided to come back even if only one day a week.