Originally Posted by familyman
In unapologetic whitebread America where I come from when someone ripped someone else off the person on the loosing end was said to have gotten 'jewed'. I know I'm not alone in having heard this and I'm certainly not a racist for having grown up in the wrong part of the world. .
in the whitebread part of anti-semitic america i'm from, it means to haggle, i.e. "i jewed him down from 40 bucks to 20." Funny how we can't even keep our bigotry straight in america. We who grew up, not in the wrong part of america, but in the wrong age of americans, must remember we're not just the sum of our parts. Here's to hoping those bigoted cliches die off with my father's generation (may he in his misguided ways live a long and healthy life).