New Co-Worker is an Anti-Semite and a Conspiracy Nut

[trisho.]

[quote volcs0]A couple of relevant stories:

When we lived in southern Minnesota, our Rabbi there told us that during an outreach trip to one of the rural areas, a girl came up to him and asked to feel his head. When he asked why, she told him that she wanted to feel for his horns - her parents had told her that Jews had horns.
I'm black and so is one of my best friends and he was raised in Indiana. When his mother started at Perdue in the early 1970s, her white roommate kept staring at her while she was unpacking. The mom finally asked her roommate why she kept staring and the roommate replied, "I'm trying to find your tail." This woman was completely serious and not actually malicious, that's what she was honestly taught. But of course, like all good racists back then, other women on the floor would drop laundry at the mom's door expecting her to do their laundry for them.

I believe my best friend's mom and dad were some of the first black students at Perdue. I think there were only about 50 out of total school population of about 1500 or so. Not good times.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

[quote MacMagus]> When we lived in southern Minnesota, our Rabbi there told us that
> during an outreach trip to one of the rural areas, a girl came up to
> him and asked to feel his head. When he asked why, she told him
> that she wanted to feel for his horns - her parents had told her that
> Jews had horns.

Not unusual. I know an attorney from upstate NY who thought that Jews had horns until he met a few in law school.
Hah! Trick answer -- everybody in law school has horns! (Or at least they do by the time they graduate.)

[dmann]

volcs- I am also Jewish from Skokie and I had never heard the term "Jew him/her down" until I arrived at the University of Iowa 1987.

My suitemate was from a town of 63 people, her graduating HS class had 6. Obviously, she had not been exposed to a broad range of religions and cultures. That, I could understand. However, this expression was also thrown about by kids from bigger areas like Des Moines and St. Louis, MO and that surprised me.

Even Iowa City has a full time synagogue and a Hillel House.

Many of the friends I made there (and am still close with today) point to me as the first Jewish person they ever met and the first Jewish person they ever became friends with.

DM

[Seacrest]

I cannot believe nobody is posting yet glorious picture of co-worker into thread.



Not!
(yeah, I know, kinda old and worn out, but Sasha is still a talented guy.)

[laarree]

"In my country there is problem,
And that problem is transport.
It take very very long,
Because Kazakhstan is big.

Throw transport down the well,
So my country can be free.
We must make travel easy,
Then we have big party!

In my country there is problem,
And that problem is the Jew.
They take everybody's money,
They never give it back.

Throw the Jew down the well,
So my country can be free.
You must grab him by his horns,
Then we have big party.

If you see the Jew coming,
You must be careful of his teeth.
You must grab him by his money,
And I tell you what to do...

Everybody!

Throw the Jew down the well
So my country can be free
You must grab him by his horns
Then we have big party

Throw the Jew down the well
So my country can be free
You must grab him by his horns
Then we have big party! "

[karsen]

Conspiracy Nuts are kinda funny.... Until you realize they are serious! Then it's just scary.

We had one that wouldn't use a cell phone or a pager because the government was tracking him. He also wouldn't carry anything larger than a $5 bill, again because of the tracking devices.

Christmas cards were filled up front and back with writing – very small handwriting that went on and on about nothing (maybe it was code?)

He lived in his truck because he couldn't stay in the same place two nights in a row.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I made it on his list of people to kill someday.

I'm not kidding btw.

[laarree]

[quote karsen].....We had one that wouldn't use a cell phone or a pager because the government was tracking him. He also wouldn't carry anything larger than a $5 bill, again because of the tracking devices......
"Dr. dr. help me please, I know you'll understand
There's a time device inside of me, I'm a self-destructin' man
There's a red, under my bed
And there's a little green man in my head
And he said, 'you're not goin' crazy, you're just a bit sad
'cause there's a man in ya, knawin' ya, tearin' ya into two.'

Silly boy ya' self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer

Self-destroyer, wreck your health
Destroy friends, destroy yourself
The time device of self-destruction
Light the fuse and start eruption..."
--the Kinks

[richorlin]

MacMagus Wrote:
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> Just... OMG! Where do people like this come from?!


They usually come from under a rock.

[Racer X]

Don't forget to remind him of the weekly fly-overs from the Black Helicopters.

[lafinfil]

>
> "Well then, how do you celebrate the birth of Jesus?"
>

Chinese food !

At least that's how my former house mates celebrated. (He was also a Chicago northsider)

He swears to this day that he made me part Jewish by making me eat Chinese on Christmas.