Talk:Astrid Levinson/@comment-2601:C6:4101:4EB0:FC4D:DFE5:19A0:A167-20200118214446

Oh, and I forgot:

Fourth, a classmate (not friend!) of mine in 6th to 11th grade insisted on calling me "Assi". Nobody else did. Probably because at that time, in 1980s Germany, "Assi" was short for "Assozial", literally meaning "associal", but mostly used to refer to people who relied on Germany's generous welfare system rather than working.

Grrr! I hated that she called me that, and I hated the implicit assumption that all people who were living on welfare were doing so by choice. And by the way, my family was not -we were confortably lower middle class.

Conveniently, the perpetrator's name was Susanne Sova. Needless to say, everybody (behind her back) called her "Susi Sofa".