Scans_Daily

Okay, let me rephrase, it's not that I don't understand what you say, it's just that on the strength of the analogy alone, I don't find the logic persuasive.

"Queer" used to be a normal word for "strange, odd", that got devoyed as a slur against gay people, that we eventually reclaimed as a word for LGB(perhaps/perhaps not T) people. It wasn't ours in the first place, but we made it ours in order to taunt those who hated us.

"Jews" is the word for Jews, was always the word for Jews since the diaspora. Sometimes it is used against us with hatred and venom, preceded with qualitative like "dirty"; but it was always, in the first place, our word, which we were born with (except for the few of us who converted into it); and which we can't leave behind even for the few of us who do convert out. We didn't reclaim it from the days were anti-semitism was pervasive (in the places where it's past), because it never belonged to the haters in the first place.
"Jew" was never a slur, even when spoken with hatred. "Kike" is. We don't try to reclaim it.

I don't believe Irish was ever a slur either.