Maybe I've been crawling around in the sewers of Reddit too much recently, but I keep seeing anti Semites saying the term "goy" is a racial slur. It's not. It means "nation". It only means "non Jew". There's no positive or negative connotation there.
This post is going on all my social media because I'm tired of seeing this statement and it's seemingly benign enough that it could easily get tossed around in non Jewish circles
I LOVE THIS VIDEO Idk anti Semites lol. I really can't tell how pervasive it is, but I see "goy as a slur" in a ton of threads
Yeah, I've seen it, too! I think the reasoning, if any, is the same sort used to claim "cisgendered" is a slur: Or possibly:I've never had to refer to my own category with specific words! It makes me uncomfortable. Why not just say "Jews and normal people"? I don't like being labeled with an identity that I've never thought about, and since I don't like it, it's a slur.
Well, whenever I say "Jew" I mean it as a slur, so how could "goy" be innocuous?
YES. It's the whole being accustomed to being the default thing.
it really is. but like... i could see someone not in the know thinking it could be offensive when it isn't? idk
I think any word can be used in a negative way, but goy in and of itself is not a slur. It simply means "nation" and is used to refer to non-Jews. I've just been seeing an uptick in the number of people that seem to think that goy is the same level as the k word or the n word and it's not.