Love and Hate for Brooklyn Jews

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Assemblyman Dov Hikind is considering buying property in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem.

I have a Viva Puerto Rico T-shirt which I got from a genuine Puerto Rican for helping him out of a landlord-tenant jam. It has a nice Puerto Rican flag on it, and a palm tree. I believe it's supposed to make me an honorary Puerto Rican. I certainly hope so. I've never felt that I was putting down other kinds of people when I wear it, especially since I'm totally Irish and look it. We islanders have to stick together.

Puerto Rico is a place, not a religion.

Gee, you must be some kinda genius!

What is your point, exactly?

You're insulting my intelligence, yet you don't get the point of this very simple statement? Gee, you must be some kind of retard.

The problem with organized religion is that each one teaches its followers that they are the ONLY chosen ones that matter and the rest of us are fucked. I have no problem with different ethnicities or different viewpoints or different faiths, but when it is organized into a tenet that puts 'us' against 'them', that's when the problems begin. Judaism is an organized religion. Hebrews are an ethnicity. There's a difference. Brooklyn Hebrews would be a better, less volatile name.

Are you seriously arguing that prejudice happens with organized religion but not with race?

It's easy to blame "organized religion", but without it, there's always another identity that people will rally around, whether it be racial, cultural, ideological, etc. The trick is to have a culture connecting people by geography (soil) so that people identify with their neighbors, and work toward the improvement of their surrounding physical community over time.

No, I wasn't saying that at all.

"When two tribes go to war, one is all that you can score.."

We live in a mostly free society. People can voice their opinion either way.

The people that make this shirt have just has much right and freedom as the person that made that sticker. Two different opposing viewpoints.

If you say destroy all those stickers, then it's ok to say if you see someone wearing that shirt to destroy it too.

I think I could have some success making "Bronx Caucasians" shirts. I could probably sell them to all 4,000 of us.

I'm patiently waiting for mine, Tom.

Great, a racial supremest t-shirt.

Well, I guess it would be okay to support one's own folk, but I wonder if people would have the same reaction to a t-shirt reading, "Upper East Anglo-Saxons" or "Westchester Aryans".

Because there are Aryan hate groups? Are you really this annoying?

or something about being irish

I'm an atheist negro.. I'm totally getting one!

I want to see someone who's obviously a goy (e.g., Aziz Ansari) wear one of these shirts ironically.

You and me both!

That Brooklyn Jews shirt is definitely one of those "I can't believe someone didn't do it already" items, and it couldn't happen to two nicer folks.

totally right, I know them and they're a supernice, irreverent couple.

Agreed.

'Brooklyn Jew' Best selling viral holiday shirt of 2009. Clever.

Ladies, make sure you get yours good and wet before cycling down Kent Ave.

I'll slather myself with cooking oil for maximum wetness effect.

Ha ha. NannyState is such an instigator.

I can't wait to get my Brooklyn Non-Jew shirt.

That's one I'd buy and wear with pride.

I'm sure everyone would respect my choice to wear it, too.

Right because that's the exact same thing.

Nope, it's actually the opposite.

But thanks for trying!

So you were using what sounded like sarcasm but you were being serious. Thanks for not making sense!

I'm just playing along with your insanity.

What's the point of wearing s shirt like this again?

im a mutt and have no home

Angry much, you wicked anti-semite?

fon-gu you Jon. Stop throwing around loaded words to shame people from speaking their minds.

You cant take credit for anything anyones done besides yourself - all this ethnic pride is an IMAGINARY way people make themselves feel better about themselves by drawing a circle around the 'us' and the 'thems'. I think its better to take pride in one race, the human race. And while we're at it we should educate people so that they stop wasting thier time on this fairy tales, they call religion.

its called evolution, and its what the world needs now.

I'm pretty sure evolution would get behind the idea of banding together to pool resources, knowledge, shared workload, etc. A common language, heritage, religion, etc, seems like a pretty good place to start, no?

I don't agree. Diversity increases survival.

A common language, heritage, religion

That's one aim of Islam. I guess you think it is good.

Shouldn't the guy's shirt read "Brooklyn Jew (with a thing for Shiksas)."

The baby's should read "Brooklyn Jew (although technically I'm not a Jew)."

If you want to be accurate.

My pride in my heritage in no way compromises my humanist ideals or ability to contain a rational thought. If you have one, maybe you'll try saying it in a nicer way.

he/she has a good point. We keep ourselves divided by labeling ourselves in different compartments. That is what the powers that be wants since we outnumber them if were united..

fine Jon, I wont argue with you.

mark my words though, 500 years from now people who cling to these tribal groups - Irish, jewish, Puerto Ricans, or whatever will be seen just as ignorant as the white pride movement, and IMO, rightfully so.

“I think its better to take pride in one race, the human race.”

Hmmm...read the news/history/biology/environmental studies lately? Last time I checked, the human race was pretty sh!tty towards their own species, not to mention what they’ve done to the rest of the planet. Not much pride in that. At least our different cultures make us interesting.

“And while we’re at it we should educate people so that they stop wasting thier time on this fairy tales, they call religion.”

Maybe if you bothered to learn about other cultures/religions/belief systems you’d appreciate other peoples’ differences and quit walking around with such a stick up your ass.

“lets pretend were different/better than the rest of the apes”

“people make themselves feel better about themselves by drawing a circle around the ‘us’ and the ‘thems’”

Wow! You got all of that from a “Brooklyn Jews” T-shirt? Man, you do have issues. Lighten up already.

personally I'm tired of the "It's just like supporting your home team." mentality - white power, jewish power, black power - its all shades of the same elitism - lets pretend were different/better than the rest of the apes. grow up you idiots.

Yeah! And while we're at it, let's ban all ethnic parades, festivals and the like... heaven forbid we NY'ers should celebrate our uniqueness and diversity!

get with the program trickster

unity=strength

Diversity = spice of life

yeah right, I like latinas too.

but what I'm saying is we're all different and thats what makes us all the same.

Diversity = unity = strength = apples = 42