>> The usual old trope of Jews being tight with money and after anything that's free,
>> like seconds at meal times. It was certainly commonplace in the whole of society not
>> that long ago to use the word Jew as substitute for swindle - 'he'll Jew
>> you' was certainly in use well into the seventies. So was the phrase 'thieving Arab'.
>>
While I don’t think I’m much younger than you, I can safely say that neither expression has been common place in my lifetime, in any school, university, workplace or social setting. So that’s over 40 years of not being commonplace. If anyone in my social/professional circle said either I’d be shocked…it’d be up there with the use of the word ‘N****r in unacceptability!!
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