we really need allies right now, and I know seeing this on people’s blogs could be comforting to other Jewish people.
why should we when you just called every non jew a derogatory term
“Hey so we know that people literally want you dead but u hurt my feelings so :(((”
not to mention liky ‘goy’ is literally just the way we refer to a non-jew just like ‘cis’ is the word for a non-trans person
if you looked down literally two centimeters in google search you would have seen the beginning of this page
and of this page
but i guess our lives are worthless to you because we called you a debatable-at-best word we use all the time for non-jews so we don’t have to keep saying “non-jews” all the g-ddamn time
^^ yeah p much lmao
This goy loves his Jewish friends
“Their word for us is secretly an insult” is such a tired old racist rumour, brought to you by the type of dipshit who gets angry when they hear people speaking another language in public because they assume the speakers are saying something bad about them.
Personally, I don’t like the word Goy.
Not because it feels insulting, but because it define me depending on what I am not instead of what I am.
Cis does not mean “not trans”, it means “who identify with it’s gender of birth”.
Goy means “not jew”
To be called as such makes me feel uncomfortable, as if I was lacking something instead of being different but valid.
Well, first of all, it actually means "Nation” in biblical Hebrew (for example, the song “Lo yisa goy el goy cherev v’yilmadu od milchama" means “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation”). Hence, when we use the words, we are literally calling you “The people of the other nations” (as Judaism centres around peoplehood in a tribal sense). So, what you have an issue with is being called “a person who belongs to another Nation, rather than of Am Yisrael,” which…is exactly what you are? You do belong to another Nation/Tribe/Identity?
Secondly, lots of groups have words for people who aren’t of their ethnicity? Gadje, Haole, Pākehā, Padakoot, Gaijin, etc. It’s pretty common for groups of small people, especially in a tribal sense, to differentiate from themselves and the greater world—especially when they’re a vulnerable population, which brings me to my last point…
Our right as a persecuted people to describe our experiences as such entirely outweigh your discomfort with being called “not Jewish.” Your bio says your French. Mazel tov, you come from a country that has a long and storied history of ant-Semitism, and you have no fucking right to police how we relate to the persecution you inflicted on us. If you hadn’t segregated and oppressed for 2,000 years, maybe we wouldn’t have such a strong sense of otherness now, but you did, so I guess we’ll never know. Grow up and deal with it.
hey @ goyim could y’all reblog this if you’re actually willing to listen to Jewish people and protect us?
I was in Jewish Culture Club in high school cause my best friend was Jewish and wanted me to come hang out with her. They appointed me the “Vice Goyim Liaison” (our other non-Jewish friend was Chief Goyim Liaison) and it made me feel hella special to be included. People who are offended by the use of Goy/Goyim are being fragile on purpose to inconvenience Jews out of using Jewish words.
I wasn’t going to add anything but y’know what? I will.
I live in New Zealand and I am a
Pākehā – occasionally I’m a Pālangi, if I’m interacting with someone from Western Polynesia. I willingly identify myself as that and feel comfortable with it.
There was this myth that it started out as a derogatory term and I still identified as Pākehā even before that myth was disproven. Because it’s damn useful to have a term that you can use to identify yourself in relation to an ethnic group that you interact with on a regular basis. I interact with Maori and Pacifica people daily so find it useful to have a word that identifies that I am different to them, not part of their culture. I find it smooths a hell of a lot of misunderstandings because if I identify myself as their name for me then they immediately know that I may not understand everything about their culture but I’m trying. I’m calling myself the name they use for me so I’m acknowledging I am a different culture to them at the same time as showing that I respect their culture.
Mooncustafer 