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Harry Redknapp.

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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Is that considered offensive in England?
 
I was always under the impression it could be taken in such a way. Would you appreciate being called it?
 
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I was always under the impression it could be taken in such a way. Would you appreciate being called it?
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I feel the same as you. I always thought it could be offensive so i don't say it
 
i've been pulled up by one of Themn/Anita/Asim on using the term Yids before 😛olice:

If I cant use it, no fucker can.
 
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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Is that considered offensive in England?
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I made a post about it a while ago.

In it, you said that you and your friends used it.

However, there a fair number of people here that are actively trying to eradicate it from the vocabulary of the Tottenham fans.
 
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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Is that considered offensive in England?
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I made a post about it a while ago.

In it, you said that you and your friends used it.

However, there a fair number of people here that are actively trying to eradicate it from the vocabulary of the Tottenham fans.
 
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[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=48418.msg1471458#msg1471458 date=1327617277]
What a great application for the job of England manager: I can't read, write or count. Brilliant. But at least he's British!
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That's why he got such a clever dog.
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It's the one from Family Guy. It's all starting to make sense.
 
[quote author=Fabio link=topic=48418.msg1471591#msg1471591 date=1327665591]
you fucking love double posting today
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I've been experiencing "difficulties" with this site all week.
 
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Of course we are. Its only mildly anti-semitic and its only the Jews, so they can take it.

Hunting down people who are racist towards Blacks and Asians is the only priority.

Oh and my tongue is firmly in my cheek, before people start getting sanctimonious with me.
 
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Of course we can, their fans call themselves "yids", they make up songs with it in "Jermaine Defoe, he's yido" and use it all the time.

Of course most of Tottenham's fans aren't Jewish, have the IQ of a baked potato and probably don't even realise that it's offensive, or even know what a Jew is.
 
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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Of course we can, their fans call themselves "yids", they make up songs with it in "Jermaine Defoe, he's yido" and use it all the time.

Of course most of Tottenham's fans aren't Jewish, have the IQ of a baked potato and probably don't even realise that it's offensive, or even know what a Jew is.
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Black people call themselves the N word. Does that make ok for us to call them it too?

If only there was a thread we could discuss this in properly...
 
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[quote author=Mystic link=topic=48418.msg1471607#msg1471607 date=1327667524]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Of course we can, their fans call themselves "yids", they make up songs with it in "Jermaine Defoe, he's yido" and use it all the time.

Of course most of Tottenham's fans aren't Jewish, have the IQ of a baked potato and probably don't even realise that it's offensive, or even know what a Jew is.
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Black people call themselves the N word. Does that make ok for us to call them it too?

If only there was a thread we could discuss this in properly...
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Most Tottenham fans aren't jewish, so you know.
 
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[quote author=Mystic link=topic=48418.msg1471607#msg1471607 date=1327667524]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
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Of course we can, their fans call themselves "yids", they make up songs with it in "Jermaine Defoe, he's yido" and use it all the time.

Of course most of Tottenham's fans aren't Jewish, have the IQ of a baked potato and probably don't even realise that it's offensive, or even know what a Jew is.
[/quote]

Black people call themselves the N word. Does that make ok for us to call them it too?

If only there was a thread we could discuss this in properly...
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Most Tottenham fans aren't jewish, so you know.
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Lots of Spurs fans are. So you know. And it doesn't make it less offensive.

I see you swerved the N word comparison then?
 
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[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=48418.msg1471609#msg1471609 date=1327667679]
[quote author=Mystic link=topic=48418.msg1471607#msg1471607 date=1327667524]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
[/quote]

Of course we can, their fans call themselves "yids", they make up songs with it in "Jermaine Defoe, he's yido" and use it all the time.

Of course most of Tottenham's fans aren't Jewish, have the IQ of a baked potato and probably don't even realise that it's offensive, or even know what a Jew is.
[/quote]

Black people call themselves the N word. Does that make ok for us to call them it too?

If only there was a thread we could discuss this in properly...
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Most Tottenham fans aren't jewish, so you know.
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Lots of Spurs fans are. So you know. And it doesn't make it less offensive.

I see you swerved the N word comparison then?
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Wouldn't it be great if we could use whatever words we wanted when we wanted. IMO the N-Word and the Y-word should only be deemed offensive if they're used offensively.
 
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[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=48418.msg1471609#msg1471609 date=1327667679]
[quote author=Mystic link=topic=48418.msg1471607#msg1471607 date=1327667524]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=48418.msg1471550#msg1471550 date=1327662413]
So we're allowed to use the word "yids" on here are we? Interesting.
[/quote]

Of course we can, their fans call themselves "yids", they make up songs with it in "Jermaine Defoe, he's yido" and use it all the time.

Of course most of Tottenham's fans aren't Jewish, have the IQ of a baked potato and probably don't even realise that it's offensive, or even know what a Jew is.
[/quote]

Black people call themselves the N word. Does that make ok for us to call them it too?

If only there was a thread we could discuss this in properly...
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Most Tottenham fans aren't jewish, so you know.
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Lots of Spurs fans are. So you know. And it doesn't make it less offensive.

I see you swerved the N word comparison then?
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Their fans, both Jewish and non Jewish are labelling themselves "yidos" and singing songs calling there own players yido, then I'm pretty damn sure they won't take offence in being referred to as the yids.

I didn't swerve your comparison, it's just completely irrelevant until you can find me a football club in the world which refers to itself as the n words. Stop trying to make an argument/ethic debate out of nothing.
 
It's 30 years to the day since Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder released Ebony & Ivory - has that song taught us nothing?
 
Up until about four years ago I always referred to spurs, the club, players & fans a yids, until someone mentioned it was an offensive term on here.

I had no idea it was meant to be offensive. I know a spurs fan I met in Egypt 7 years ago & still speak to occasionally who has the spurs badge & the yids tattooed on his arm.

In school most people referred to them as that too. I doubt that many people know its an offensive term, cos its not used by anyone outside of football, offensively or otherwise. At least not in any peers I've been around. Most mates still use it hen discussing spurs too.

In still in the dark as to what it means, is it something to do with Jews & the nazis?
 
Yiddish and Hebrew are similar languages used in Jewish communities. Yiddish was commonly used by European Jews. That would be the connection - due to the European connection of the word, it definitely has dodgy undertones. It would raise the hair on the back of the neck of older Jewish folk. in New York, I'm not sure if the Hasidim and orthodox communities speak Yiddish or Hebrew, mind.
 
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