the lemur
Senior Member
And former cabinet minister Monte Solberg reported that he used to get invited to events put on by Jewish organizations who assumed that he was Jewish because of his name.
My own last name is one that is quite common in Germany AND among Jews (including a few famous ones). I'm neither German nor Jewish (as far as I know ... not enough evidence to meet even the Doug Ford threshold), but the responses/assumptions are rather telling. In real life, I've had Germans say 'you know what I'm talking about - you're one of us, right?'. Err, no. Online, when I've used my name, I've had anti-semites come out of the woodwork to say 'well, that's just typical of you people, after all <bizarre conspiracy theory about controlling things>'. It's really eye-opening to see people unmask themselves as bigots when they've misidentified their target ...