has anyone picked up on this.... the Tottenham YIDS?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51479810



I wonder what the PC brigade are gonna make of this.

 

If you say you're english you get arrested and thrown in jail...

 

They have always been yids. Leeds were once called yids as well because of those financing the club.

 

Spurs fans calling themselves the Yid army is part of their identity. But there was a phone in on this subject on LBC a couple of years ago.

I couldn't believe how many people were offended by it.

 

When did they bring this in? You just say you're English, and you'll be arrested and thrown in jail?

 

These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English, don't you?

 

You can’t say anything now stew

 

My face is made out of electricity and ham!

 

Take him away!!!

 

Spurs have been known as the Yids for donkeys years. Tottenham is just up the road from one of the largest Jewish communities in London at Stamford Hill. The Jews that mostly live in the area are Hasidic and are ultra-Orthodox, the men wearing long black coats, large hats and sporting long sidelocks. My colleagues in our office in Dalston used to refer to them as 'Stamford Hill Cowboys'!

 

Sophie Tucker sang of " My Yiddish Mama". The word " Yid" has always been used by some gentiles
as a derogatory term to describe a Jewish person.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNSSJ1Q_dz3A2UNqshEUu4CKHMkkOA:1581538081470&source=hp&ei=IVtEXp6GGoO4kwXBw5u4Aw&q=yiddishe&gs_ssp=eJzj4tFP1zcsNM1KMS0sszRg9OKozExJySzOSAUAWsEHrA&oq=Yidisha&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.1.3.0i10j46i10j0i10j46i10l2j0i10l2j46i10.3697.8093..11158...1.0..0.208.947.1j4j2......0....1.......1..35i362i39j0i131j46j0j46i131j5.oT4svVOmrEk

 

i thought the jewish language was called yiddish

 

Some do but I believe the majority speak Hebrew. As far as I know Yiddish is a form of Hebrew and uses the Hebrew alphabet.

 

I dont really like this reclaiming of derogatory words ( like the n word) as to me it muddies the water. It is simpler to say x word is offensive and leave it at that.

My personal take on it is how the person using it means it, but that isnt as clear cut.

 

Oh dear, here we go.

Name me one person who has been arrested and thrown in jail for that ‘offence’.

I’ll wait

 

Just been listening to David Baddiel saying about Chelsea fans chanting Autwitz and making gas noises. Cannot fathom that low level of humanity that thinks that's OK. Everyone has been taught about the Holocaust so there's no excuse.

 

Racism pure and simple RH, when religion is used to substitute race by proxy thats what it is. If it’s therefore appropriate to fine little owd BFC for singing anti IRA songs how come Chelsea aren't in the news being fined for that. I wonder.

 

Now, so I was in a cab on a Sunday night going from Waterloo to Hackney, and suddenly the cab driver turned around and his opening conversation or gambit was to say this genuine sentence.
He said, "These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English, don't you?" Look, we've all done it.
You're probably like me.
Sometimes a cab driver or someone might say something like that and you go, "Yeah.
" You know, just for a quiet life.
Or if they go, "My face is made out of electricity and ham," and you go, "Yes, it's awful when that happens.
"My friend had that.
An electric ham face.
" Or if they go, "All mice are gay and they're from space, aren't they?" You go, "Yeah, the bloody gay space mice.
I can't stand them.
They make me physically sick.
" You're just, you know, for a quiet life.
But on this occasion I thought, "I wonder what he means?" I said to him, "What did you say?" And he said, "Oh, these days, "if you say you're English you get arrested and thrown in jail.
" I said, "When did this come in?" And he said, "No," he said, "if you say you're English these days, mate.
"You get arrested and thrown in jail.
" I said, "Are you? "What, if you say, just if you say you're English you get arrested and thrown in jail?" He goes, "Yeah.
These days," he said, "if you say you're English you get arrested and you'll be, you'll be just thrown in jail.
" I said "In, in, jail.
" He goes, "Yeah, these days.
These days, mate, if you say you're English, right, "these days, you'll get arrested and you'll be thrown in jail.
" "I said, " You'll be thrown? "Actually thrown in jail, just if you, if you say you're English.
" He goes, "Yeah, these days.
"Say you're English these days, you'll get, you'll be thrown in, "arrested, and then you'll be thrown in jail.
" I said, "You'd be actually be thrown in jail?" He goes, "Yeah.
" I said, "Just for saying you're English?" He goes, "Yeah," he said, "say you're English these days.
"You get arrested and you'll be, you'd be thrown in jail.
" I said, "Thrown in, you'll be thrown in jail if you just say, just for saying you're Eng?" He goes, Yes, you will.
" "These days," he said, "if you say you're English "you'll be arrested and you'll be thrown" I said, "Absolutely, are you saying, what are you saying? "If you say you're English these days, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail?" He goes, "Yes, these days, if you say you're English, you just say that, and you'll be arrested "and you'll be thrown in jail.
" I said, "Thrown in, you'll be thrown in a jail? "Just if you, and arrested, just if you say" He goes, "Yeah, you'll be arrested, then thrown in jail just for saying you're English.
" I said, "Just for saying you're English you'll be arrested?" He goes, "Yeah.
" I said, "Are you cer" I said, "Are you sure? "Will you be arrested and thrown in jail these days if you say you're English?" And he said, "No.
" Right.
I'd worn him down, "But" he said, "but.
.
" he said, "if on an official form where it says " 'nationality' you cross out British and you write in 'White English' "they will send that form back.
" Now, that's not strict It's not the same as being arrested, is it? But it is a very thin line, to be fair.
It is.
Earlier this year I was applying for a new passport and on my passport photo, before I sent it in, on my face, in pen, I wrote, "There ain't no black in the Union Jack.
" Stupid load of fuss.
I was banged up.
The next thing I knew Amnesty International had had to fly Micky Flanagan out to Carnegie Hall to tell New Yorkers about fingering a woman in a fish market in order to draw attention to my incarceration.
But look, it worked.
I stand before you.
I'm free.
Look, free man.

 

I really don't know how that got avoided.