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pkdu
(3,977 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Turbineguy
(37,312 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)He's gotten into the back room of the chocolate shop after closing hours, and he's gorging himself with chocolate. He gets sick and tosses the goo, looks around for another box and goes to work on it. He starts to cry and he's all alone and he starts to whisper to himself, "Stop me... Please stop me..."
Our Boy Trumpy.
marybourg
(12,609 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)marybourg
(12,609 posts)sound Jewish.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)So - not Jewish. Streicher is a German name that would translate to something like "Stringer."
marybourg
(12,609 posts)article. But it still reads (to me) like trying to give a hated non-Jew a Jewish name. Like Publicans calling FDR "Mr. Rosenfelt".
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Streicher was a virulently anti-semitic NAZI propagandist.
marybourg
(12,609 posts)Jewish people with this name.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)Mostly Irish and English names, probably changed at Ellis Island.
marybourg
(12,609 posts)that doesn't negate the anti-Semitic practice of twisting the names of hated non-Jews into Jewish-sounding names. To me, Streicher sounds and "reads" Jewish. But I'm not implying that the OP had any such intent; only that it made me uneasy.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)of a Nazi propagandist to attribute his qualities to someone who is neither Jewish nor (as far as I know) German, but is instead a propagandist for a white supremacist administration.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)I'm thinking of names like Coleman and Gordon, the actual names of some Jewish people I know of (and also some non-Jewish people I know of). Names get changed and tweaked all the time. I understand where there could be some concern in other situations, but not here: It's not far to attribute malign influences where clearly none were intended (attributing Jewishness to Streicher's name as attached to Spicer, a member of a definitely anti-Semitic administration, wouldn't make any sense at all).
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Julius Streicher was a German propagandist. Sean Spicer is an American propagandist.
BTW, I know Jews whose last name is Trump. Does that mean Trump is a Jewish name?
JI7
(89,244 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)It doesn't have any Hebrew or Yiddish roots or associations. It's just plain German. Streicher wouldn't have gotten his job as a Nazi propagandist if the other Nazis had even the slightest suspicion that the name was anything but Aryan, Herrenvolk, master-race German.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,627 posts)Isn't that the standard line when someone in power or some corporate apparatchik fucks somebody.