Jews have, apparently for the first time, found out that the word “jew” is used as a derogatory verb referencing someone who behaves miserly or dishonestly in business dealings, i.e., “that used car dealer tried to jew me on a 1994 Taurus.”
This conveys a very specific meaning that everyone understands. In the context of the Taurus example, the dealer was either overcharging or presenting the car in a dishonest way, or both.
It doesn’t make sense to me how Jews were not aware that the word has been used this way for centuries. But the Stop Antisemitism Twitter account just found it in Google’s dictionary, and accused the dictionary of being anti-Semitic.
Google quickly responded that they will change the definition of words if it offends the Jews.
Our apologies. Google licenses definitions from third-party dictionary experts. We only display offensive definitions by default if they are the main meaning of a term. As this is not the case here, we have blocked this & passed along feedback to the partner for further review.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 27, 2022
Jews, it’s just… it’s just the definition of the word, Jews.
See where it says “offensive.”
They’re saying it’s offensive.
Dictionaries simply categorize how words are used.
The Jews seem to believe that Google did this to them on purpose to hurt their feelings…?
I couldn’t believe it so I googled it myself… hey @Google, what’s antisemitism? https://t.co/tNn0YqCMkd pic.twitter.com/OivydCQuRG
— Elad Strohmayer (@EladStr) December 27, 2022
It’s from Oxford Languages, it says it’s the verb tense, & it says it’s an offensive term. The very next line gives historical context. Scroll down to the next entry and you get the noun.
Getting angry that encyclopedic resources don’t ignore reality doesn’t accomplish anything.
— JD Krones (@jdkrones) December 27, 2022
If you don’t want the word to be used like this, Jews, maybe you should cultivate a better perception of yourself by not behaving in a way that causes people to use your name as an insult.
BIG HINT: whining about dictionaries and demanding people change the definition of words to suit you DOES NOT lead to a good public opinion of you.
People REALLY, REALLY do not like this idea of Jews being the overlords who are separate from society, despise society, and yet rule over society.
Frankly, people dislike that even more than they dislike your shady business dealings.