from: https://thebaffler.com/latest/how-german-isnt-it-cocotas

  • SSJ2Marx
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    5 months ago

    Wolff’s maternal grandmother’s grandmother was supposedly Jewish, a silver bullet of matrilineal descent across the upheavals of European Jewish history.

    It's the German pickle-liz

    • itappearsthat [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      you just know he has a "pow-wow chow" equivalent recipe with a title so uncreatively racist that it could be adopted without modification by /pol/ users as a synonym for the holocaust

    • ComradeEchidna
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      5 months ago

      I'm reminded about how here in Australia one of my grandparents grandparents was supposedly very dark in both skin and hair colouring and they weren't talked about by the rest of the family, in my parent's generation speculation ran rampant from them being Jewish to First Nations. Someone did the research and it turns out they were Sicilian.