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[Ington]

What's the most frustratingly ignorant thing someone asked you or said about your religion/culture/group/etc.?
In my case, in relation to religion, a Catholic girl came up to me and asked:

"Jewish people don't believe in God, right?"

After explaining to her that Jewish people began the entire 'God-fearing-people' trend, she remarked:

"Oh, so you believe in Jesus?"

I responded by threatening to stab her in the jaw.
Any similar stories?

Edit:
Also, if you didn't get the title, you may qualify to be ignorant yourself. Jewish = religion. Hebrew = language. Come on, now.

This post has been edited by ermfermoo: Mar 16 2007, 04:39 PM

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I think the most offensive thing that someone can say about me and my family is the whole Nazi crap. I live in a predominately German and Polish place, but lately we've become much much more diverse. When people find out my last name they ask if I'm German and when I answer yes I've had people say "Omg, did you have Nazi's in your family". I find it to be VERY rude.

[kimmytree]

I think the most offensive thing that someone can say about me and my family is the whole Nazi crap. I live in a predominately German and Polish place, but lately we've become much much more diverse. When people find out my last name they ask if I'm German and when I answer yes I've had people say "Omg, did you have Nazi's in your family". I find it to be VERY rude.

I know how that feels.

Except, people dont know I'm German until I tell them. My dad came to the US when he was 18.

But anyways, people usually end up offending me without them knowing it. People at my school are constantly running around reffering to other people as Nazi's. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. So the other day, I stood up for myself in a front of a few people and told them to stfu, because I'm German - and my family's from East Germany. And that a crapload of my family DIED as a result of Nazi's.

Then this one guy was like - "But I thought you're family was Jewish?"
And I was like - "Yeah, my Dad's family's Jewish AND East German."
And then he says - "OMFG. So your Nazi relatives killed your Jewish ones??!?!!? Now what am I supposed to call you?"



And then there was this other time a few years ago when we had a guest speaker... I think it was Holocaust Rememberance Day. Our speaker was Jewish, and had been in a concentration camp as a child... and he told his story, about what it was like, and how his family died. Then after he was done speaking, the school's Pastor (its a Christian school) finished speaking and has the nerve to say that he hoped his family had a chance to know the Lord, implying that if they didnt, that they're in Hell.

ah yes.

her:"so like, you know you're going to hell right?"
me: "well, actually, jews don't believe in hell."
her: "but you don't believe in jesus, so you're going to hell!"
me: "no. not so much"
her: "dont say I didn't warn you when you burn in hell for all of eternity!"

yeah, I'm jewish too.

Some people are so ignorant.