Last year, a juror in the Barbie vs. Bratz trial was removed for making “slurs about the ethnicity of Isaac Larian, the Jewish, Iranian-born CEO of MGA, maker of Bratz.” The jury-member’s hypocritcal verbal attack, calling Iranians: “rude” and “thieves” who have “stolen other person’s [sic] ideas”, leaves us pondering whether this juror should move out of their sheer glass house today… or tomorrow.
We think – and we realize that this is pure speculation – that the slang Yiddish term, “Oy Vey”, which roughly means: “Oh No”, may very well have been created by, or at least derives from the Persian Jews.
The Farsi slang for “Oh No”, is “Ey Vay” – pronounced: ay-vaay – and is used as often and commonly amongst Iranians, as “Oy Vey” is in the Jewish community and beyond. We don’t care for conspiracy theories, but we found this worth sharing.
