The Norwegian Blue wrote:Dakini wrote:I'm not sure that it's increasing anti-Semitism so much as it's an increase in people who
1. don't think about the meaning of words before they speak them (see also: "that's so gay!") and/or
2. people changing the words that they use because there are enough people expressing offence about other terms (e.g. "gay" "retarded") that they go back to slurs that people aren't paying as much attention to and/or
3. people thinking that Cartman from South Park is a good person to emulate.
Fair. All three of those are depressing in their own right, though.
I totally agree.
But I don't think that it's necessarily a case where people who say this hate Jewish people, just like I don't think it's the case that people who use "gay" in a negative way necessarily hate gay people. I tend to think that #1 is more often what's happening and people are just really inconsiderate (on average).