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So is this a genuine question or an antisemitic jaqoff?
by jl6 3y ago
So is this a genuine question or an antisemitic jaqoff?
- khazhoux 3y agoWhy would it be anti-Semitic?
- jl6 3y agoIt seems to pointedly spell out the stereotypically Jewish names of the investors. This is a common anti-Semitic dogwhistle: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/echo https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/echo Also seen in the now-banned browser extension Coincidence Detector. Of course it’s very easy to defend as innocently “just asking questions”: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/JAQ_off https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/JAQ_off
- khazhoux 3y agoFunny, I didn't think they were stereotypically Jewish. Arbib, in particular, rings of Arabic or Persian (Abdil, Arbab, etc, ...) At any rate, this venture is odd enough that it seemed a valid question to ask how the investors are connected to it. (shrug)
- HideousKojima 3y agoGoldman and Biderman strike me as decently likely to be Jewish last names, not sure about Arbib. But I'm also curious why the poster you replied to instantly assumed OP was going for an antisemitic angle.
- jl6 3y agoArbib is a surname of Sephardic Jewish origin, and this particular Arbib has a Twitter account which more or less identifies himself as Jewish. I instantly identified the issue because I’ve seen it so many times before. When it comes to anonymous internet commenters, there’s really only one reason for someone to go out of their way to point out Jewishness. Anyway, the offending comment is now dead.