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TedDoesntTalk on Dec 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unluckiest Man in Movie History (2000)

> the worst possible place given his ethnicity

In 1935 in the USA, Jews were a race, not an ethnicity.

Source: my grandparents and great-grandparents immigration papers. Funny how language changes.

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