As a person who has an Italian last name, and (a little) Italian blood in me, I guess I’m the only one here who has standing on the question.
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So let me be the first to call “bullshit”.
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Fair is fair, rules are rules, and what’s good for the goose is good for the gander (whatever the hell a gander is).
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The first big Italian anti-defamation organization was the “Italian American Anti-Defamation League”, which claimed that any prosecution of mobsters was based solely on prejudice against Italians.
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Of course the fact that this group was set up by the head of the Colombo crime family scored points on the Irony Scale, but it’s still bullshit.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I could care less about any so-called derogatory terms they want to use. Dago, Wop, Guinea, Guido… whatever. I am neither offended nor interested.
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And while there were (in the old days), a few legitimate cases of anti-Italian prejudices (for example, the organized crime department of most police stations used to be called the “Italian Squad”) ; there were also prejudices against the Irish, the Germans, the Russian, and nearly every group of immigrant that ever landed on our shores.
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If this group wants to waste their time on this, push more publicity toward the show, have no effect whatsoever, then that’s their choice; but they come across looking as crazy as Al and Jesse.

J Stank, shawty come across as dirty.. Pass… on the Guido topic, it don’t matter, outside of Italians, i don’t hear people use that word… it don’t carry the same weight as the word “nigga”

I don’t seem to remember Italians getting hung and beaten while picking cotton over the word “guido”. Anyway, I for one will not submit myself to ever watching this foolishness….this show and the people in it seem to be the definition of trash.

I agree that anti-Italian bias is nothing compared with what Africans went through, but it did exist to some limited extent.
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For example, here’s an editorial cartoon from 1888 that suggested that the only way to solve the “Italian problem” was to stuff them into cages and drop them in the river.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ItalianPopulationMascott1888.jpg
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And yes… there were lynching’s. Apparently, the largest mass-lynching in US history was when 11 Italians were lynched in New Orleans 1891.
http://www.americanlynching.com/infamous-old.html#1891
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But… the Irish were treated worse. Millions die in the famine, and then their boats weren’t even allowed to dock when they hit the US.

I am Italian American and I do get offended when non-Italians say Guido. Guido is an Italian American youth style, usually of the working class. Of course, not all Italian Americans are Guidos, but all Guidos are Italian American. The word should not be coming out of other mouths, because it has been made into a derogatory word. If an Italian wants to say it, fine.

Guido comes from the verb guidare, to guide or drive. It is also a first name for males. There is really no one sure answer as to how it got its start as a term for style or as a derogatory word.

Lastly, whether someone is 10% or 100% Italian, they are still Italian. Italians have pride in their heritage, so Ronnie being 50 % Italian does not make him un-Italian. Snooki was raised by Italians, and therefore in an Italian American culture, so she is no less Italian.

JWOWW is the only one that shouldn’t let that word come out her mouth.

The bitch is dumb…real dumb she just plain retarded…thats all there is to say about it..i hope she thinks next time before speaking out of her ass

Hey HN! I haven’t commented in so long, I feel like a toddler. But in any case I would like to add my thoughts. Italians as a group clearly can feel multiple ways about this issue and no one Italian speaks for the group. Just as no one Black person speaks for the entire group of Blacks in America. I would also like to say that Irish Americans, Italian Americans and many other ethnic groups have been treated poorly at some point in this country. However, over time our country has a tendency to slowly add more groups into “White”. At one point Italian wasn’t White, English and French was White. But slowly we add more ethnic groups to White and they become acceptable. Blacks will never get included in “White” which makes them very different from all other groups. Nonetheless, my thought is that Italians could be viewed poorly by those in small parts of the country with limited exposure to ethnically diverse groups. Hell on that point New Jersey looks bad! At least in the Sopranos you had some balance with the therapists’ family. We don’t need any help making this country more discriminatory. For every negative, we need to show the positive.