One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by VLM on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:45AM (#24662007)

General opinion for decades has been the Ferengi are specifically anti-Semitic stereotypes rather than generic Mediterranean-area stereotypes.

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by throw0101a on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:14AM (#24662803)

> In America, people ask 'Do the Ferengi represent Jews?' In England, they ask 'Do the Ferengi represent the Irish?' In Australia, they ask if the Ferengi represent the Chinese[…] The Ferengi represent the outcast… it's the person who lives among us that we don't fully understand.[19]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Comparisons_with_anti-...

Or you could view them as the anthropomorphization of the vice of greed or stinginess/miserliness/parsimony.

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by mjlee on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:43AM (#24662501)

As a Jew, I always just considered them space goblins...

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:13PM (#24664085)

So did I.

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by mmmmmk on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:59AM (#24663948)

I forgot where I read it, but I believe Roddenberry modeled the Ferengi after New England traders in the 1800's.

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by kd0amg on Friday October 02, 2020 @07:11PM (#24667968)

This is stated directly in the episode that introduced them.

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