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[dragonlady7]

culture, this blue hellsite, i did laugh the first time i saw the meme, but like only the first time guys

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nonasuch https://nonasuch.tumblr.com/post/678840665644400640/petition-to-swap-out-the-my-brother-in-christ :

petition to swap out the ‘my brother in christ’ meme for literally anything else

maybe something jovially old-fashioned! ‘my good sir’ or ‘my dear fellow’ or ‘old sport’ or like. ANYTHING that does not give me the Jewish heebie-jeebies every time I see it

[img desc: tags from aimmyarrowshigh​: #for fuck’s sake this #although isn’t ‘heebie-jeebies’ also. about. jews #?]

I am DELIGHTED to be able to tell you that heebie-jeebies is in fact NOT about Jews!!! I know!!!! In a world where every fucking time you think something is harmless and funny for sure this time, every fucking time, it turns out to secretly be about Jews, and I say that with utter and complete sincerity as a super-clueless Goy who loves saying wacky old-timey shit and is genuinely sincerely gobsmacked every time it turns out that yet another fucking thing I assumed was harmless is decidedly not, oh boy, and I said the phrase heebie-jeebies recently and stopped dead like ah fuck, this is going to be another one of those moments isn’t it, and so I gingerly went and looked it up and

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it is NOT about Jews!!!!

It apparently was coined by a cartoonist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_DeBeck in the 1920s as new slang for a feeling of psychological dread (this cartoonist liked to coin phrases and also came up with horsefeathers, for example), and became a dance craze, and when a song was made about it https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/heebie-jeebies-a-word-coined-by-cartoonist-billy-debeck-became-a-dance-craze-in-the-1920s-and-a-song-by-louis-armstrong.html, Louie Armstrong improvised a scat section in the recording that wound up doing a great deal to launch his career. Fascinating article at the link.

But– in the end, the punchline is, for fucking once, for once, despite the sound of it, it is not, in fact, about the Jews.

… Not that I’m going to make any great practice of saying it, now that I’ve had the thought, because sometimes, and I think I stole this from Jewish teachings actually, the appearance of doing a bad thing can be almost as bad as actually doing a bad thing? I do not wish to use this phrase around anyone who, for good or for ill, would assume it was in fact about the Jews, and would assume things about my intentions or character or beliefs based upon that perception. But. For the record.

Also, for the record, as a recovering Catholic, I find the “my brother in Christ” meme uncomfortable too, so I’m also concurring with the general theme of the post. (Your picture was not posted)

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[oracne]

Thanks for the link! I think it's a good thing you looked it up and shared; more knowledge is always a good thing.