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[benji]

I feel like I kind of have the same understanding? I've heard the word like twice in my life and my immediate thought was association with money rather than jewish people

Historically though that's the same thing. That's why there's so much crossover between anti-Semitism and the language used against the wealthy and many of these types of ideas seem like they're constantly coming up from the same types of people all the time. Jews were exempt from the prohibitions on things that prevented the escape from poverty, the rest of society wasn't going to abandon those, so Jews were seen as obviously corrupt. It's the same reason so many Jews were merchants and bankers and so on, those occupations were forbidden to everyone else and Jews were forbidden from everything else.

This doesn't necessarily mean using those terms can't be ignorance, like when somebody says they've been gypped by something, I almost never would think they're actually accusing the company or person of being literal gypsies aka Roma. As I regularly say I assume ignorance over malice generally.

You can actually go on Twitter and read threads where people are listing all the reasons they hate Jews and it sounds like they're describing an ancient society rather than one where everybody does those things now. I think it's especially funny in that sort of ALPHA ALT-RIGHT sphere because those dudes are all about getting ahead and getting wealthy and then they'll go into a rant about how Jews are evil because they're culturally good at making money and that means they can't get wealthy. Like, you realize that one of your obsessive ideas is what's preventing you from achieving your other.