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Jordan The Nostr Miner 🫪 · 1w
Goy/Goyim is like Yankee, Beaner, N*gger, K*ke. Gentile is like American, Hispanic, African-American, Jew/Israeli/Hebrew. Every Yankee is American but not all Americans are Yankees. Every Goy is a ...
Luciano Barak profile picture
Your dramatic monologue only highlights a complete lack of understanding of linguistics and the Hebrew language itself.

First, the word "gentile" isn't Hebrew—it comes from the Latin gentilis, historically used to translate the concept of "nations." In Biblical Hebrew, "goy" (plural goyim) literally just means "nation" or "people" (and is even used to describe the nation of Israel itself in the Torah).

Using goy to single out an individual as some inferior species is conceptually ridiculous. To us Israelis, watching someone construct a whole hierarchy around this word is pure comedy—it's the exact equivalent of pointing at a single person and calling them "Brazil" or "New York."

What you think is deep philosophical insight is really just condescension built on top of basic linguistic illiteracy.
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Jordan The Nostr Miner 🫪 · 1w
Language is defined by its users, meanings change, and evolve over time. It is how I chosen to fork the language to fit my cultural, societal, and individual identity preferences, and understanding.
H · 1w
Goy could mean Jews in the Hebrew Bible, but Goyim meant the nations always excluding Jews https://media.poster.place/6d9851dfd646ee51fa78669ef858854b9c80026c3fcb94568e8ff04aaf868e1d.mp4