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> They're suave arsim (how else can you blend in Beirut or Tehran). To save others looking up what 'suave arsim' meant: 1. suave -- a normal English the word
by someperson 2y ago
> They're suave arsim (how else can you blend in Beirut or Tehran).
To save others looking up what 'suave arsim' meant:
1. suave -- a normal English the word for charming/confident
2. "arsim" [1] -- apparently a former ethnic slur for Mizrahi Jews [2] now repurposed to mean crude, loud and brash (which sound to me like the equivalent of the British slang term 'chav').
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_(slang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_(slang)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews
- alephnerd 2y agoIt was a bad attempt at humor, but pretty much my point is there are a couple other cybersecurity/sigint specific units unrelated to Mossad. And "arsim" isn't as loaded a term anymore - everyone is mixed in Israel now because it's a melting pot. And saying "Mossad"-this/"Mossad"-that just feels like it's increasingly being used as a dogwhistle.
- posterguy 2y agoI mean, it is used as a substitution for 'Israel', but I don't see how that's a dogwhistle. Or do you mean antisemitic?