There's some Jew in you

[lavendertook]

Coworker: And your pocketbook is purple, too!

Me: Yeah, I like it. I got it from the street vender up the block. I actually bargained him down for it.

Coworker: So you got some Jew in you.

Me: I AM Jewish.

*nervous giggle from her and other coworker*

Me: Watch that stereotype there.

*she goes to talk about other coworker about business and ignores me*

Comments

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Maybe just your comment alone wouldn't, but she'd have to live under a rock not to make the association with what went down at the Holocaust Museum, which is right in her own backyard, so to speak.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

You'd think, but an awful lot of people spend a lot of time crawling and writhing under rocks like the things under that tree bole--people can be very creative in the ways they find not to make connections between things that are uncomfortable for them.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

*sigh* You're probably right, alas.