another old-timey (double-)ethnic slur

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> 'm confident Larry will find not a few additional anti-Jewish slurs
> in Sayers. Â And various other English mystery writers of various periods.

And practically anywhere else. It depends on whether you want to laugh
it off as satire or not. F'rinstance, in The Family Guy, a prisoner
asks that he not be shackled to a matricide. He'd prefer that it be
anyone else, even the perpetrator of a "Jew-on-Jew business crime."
Early Kuyler, the protagonist of Squidbillies, offers to regale the
other good ol' boys with his "anti-Jew speech. Hit don't make no
sense, but it shore holds a crowd!"

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