idiots in my condo think golddigger is an ethnic slur

[Johnny Drama]

when I read the title, I didn't think Jews were the ethnicity in question.

[Scary_Tiger]

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when I read the title, I didn't think Jews were the ethnicity in question.

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[AJackson]

Construing 'gold digger' as a Jewish slur is a stretch and I suspect the company may be using this a red herring to avoid facing their performance issue.

However, I don't get the original gold digger comment. I can see the easy play on words, but it really doesn't capture what the management company is doing wrong.

Now if had changed the name to 'gold hoarder'. . .

[KidLifeCrisis]

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49ers were gold prospectors, the jewish ones were goldiggers.

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Thanks for explaining, I never knew that. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[crazy canuck]

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Just direct attention away from it by making a comment about how the management group is a bigger scam than Scientology.


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This is Goldin.

[adsman]

Forget the management issue, that liberal, afalfa-eating, do-gooder, anti-armpit shaver Jane needs a good bitch slapping.

[ThankgodforRB]

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Dear Akis,

While I am sure that you did not intend your comment to be an ethnic slur, the fact is that slurs against Jews primarily involve some sort of reference to Jews being greedy, primarily money-oriented, or being usurious (I refer you to Shylock in "Merchant of Venice" -- I believe Jews at one time were barred from many occupations except lending money which Christians were either barred from doing or unwilling to do). Thus, your casual modification of Goldin (obviously a Jewish name) to "Gold Digger" can reasonably be construed as an anti semitic slur.

Again, constructive criticisim and/or complaints are one thing, name-calling is another.

- Uncle Leo


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[xwillience]

gold digger is in fact an ethnic slur. from like 120000 bc. people need to get over it as it means something entirely different now.

[That Foreign Guy]

Tell him as a person of [whatever] descent you find the word constructive highly offensive as [whatever] people used to work in construction.

[cbloom]

Thinking gold digger is an ethnic slur is retarded.

Forwarding along an insult because you can't use email right is way more retarded.