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Author Topic: "Death to the Jews"...  (Read 2598 times)
Vosem
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« on: August 20, 2014, 03:00:14 PM »

In Austria, there are 3 towns (out of 2400) with "Jews" in their name:

* Judenburg ("Jew's Castle")
* Judenau-Baumgarten ("Jew's Floodplain-Tree Garden")
* Judendorf-Straßengel ("Jew's Village-Street Angel")

"Jewish Castle", "Jewish Floodplain", and "Jewish Village" are much more innocuous names than "Death to the Jews", though.


What's so confusing?
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Vosem
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Posts: 15,641
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E: 8.13, S: -6.09

« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2014, 03:11:38 PM »
« Edited: August 20, 2014, 03:14:35 PM by Vosem »

In Austria, there are 3 towns (out of 2400) with "Jews" in their name:

* Judenburg ("Jew's Castle")
* Judenau-Baumgarten ("Jew's Floodplain-Tree Garden")
* Judendorf-Straßengel ("Jew's Village-Street Angel")

"Jewish Castle", "Jewish Floodplain", and "Jewish Village" are much more innocuous names than "Death to the Jews", though.


What's so confusing?

That Sanchez never wants to read another criticism of Murica again because of an amusingly named historical curiosity with a population of what... fifteen people (?) in the middle of nowhere is a typically dense post from the kid.

I think he was referring, rather hyperbolically, to Europeans discussing racism as an exclusively American issue when western European countries have towns with offensive names (and more broadly, European countries' own problems with minorities).

EDIT: Made my own wording clearer.
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