Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐<p>A friend of mine used a word in one of their posts that I regard as an <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/slur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slur</span></a>. </p><p>I looked it up, and it seems that opinions are mixed among Jews on whether it should be considered such.</p><p>As a German-American from a German-speaking NYC family, who has studied German academically and has many Jewish friends, family, and neighbors, it is my opinion that the word is unmistakably of German/Yiddish origin, and I have only very rarely in my life heard it used against non-Jewish people.</p>
