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A lot of modern slang started on right wing sections of 4Chan and is full of Jewish words intentionally used as code to make fun of them. EtymologyNerd on YouTube has talked about the right leaning origin of slang some
So incels that think they're clever got ya
Fun fact. /pol/ was created the day after Epstein met moot and gave him a ride home. Q anon appeared there a couple years later with pizza gate.
Epstein was one of those elitist jews that called non jews goyim like muggles or some shit. Amazing how much worse 4chan is than every other chan. I never thought I would miss 8chan
So the Yiddish word means someone who isn't Jewish. How is it used in those spaces?
I don't know exactly. The things I saw from EtymologyNerd tracked more of their movement, he might have other videos diving into their use you could go look for
Goy and goyim are also just actually words that are fairly commonly used by many English speaking Jews.
Fair amount of other Yiddish and Hebrew words other than goy/goyim are used this way as well.
Its like... an additional vernacular.
Chutzpah, means basically ... shameless audacity, or ... arrogant presumption of privilege, something like that.
Oi Vey! ... basically 'Woe is me!', but also kind of more like 'Oh shit/fuck/no'... sort of.
... I'm not saying you can't use these words and phrases as like, part of a cariacature, but they are also just words and phrases you'd have probably picked up, growing up in a Jewish family, or around them.
Similar to how you'd have an additional vernacular set if you were from some other cultural/ethic/religious background...
... not exactly the same, but Evangelical Christians for example have a weird tendency to pluralize 'evidence' into 'evidences', use 'discernment' in common speech waaay more often than others do, etc.