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Minicast: The Accepted Slur

5/16/2018

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​In this minicast, Matt ponders why it's not okay to use the phrase, "jew them down", but it's okay to say, "I've been gypped". Both words are considered offensive in their communities, but even people that we don't expect still use the word "gyp". We get some help from Romedia Foundation's executive director Katalin Barsony in the below clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOyG1yz9G8
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Uh Clem
6/11/2018 02:41:30 pm

Growing up in New England in the 60s and 70s, I never, ever heard the expression "jew someone down", and take my word for it that that area was then and is not without its share of ignorant bigots. But I frequently heard and used the words "to gyp" or gypped without any awareness that it was related to the word "gypsy". I genuinely wonder how many people may use this word, having never looked it up, without knowing its origins.

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