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No idea, the Jewish people, judaists insert whatever works for you.
by noir_lord 8y ago
No idea, the Jewish people, judaists insert whatever works for you.
- tuesdayrain 8y agoI've noticed people can be offended when you refer to them by their adjectives. E.g. "blacks" instead of "black people", "autists" vs "autistic people".
- crockstar 8y agoMy understanding is that people object to this as it is a means of defining them rather than describing them. In fact, I know people who would be insulted with the use of "autistic people" as opposed to "people with autism"
- wgerard 8y agoOne term encourages the idea that they're people first-and-foremost, with the adjective used to describe a particular subset of people. The other removes the emphasis on them being people and is pretty depersonalizing. As you can imagine, it's much worse when it's a historically marginalized group--as an example, fewer people will care if you say "blondes" vs. "blonde-haired people".
- noir_lord 8y agoI don’t deliberately go out my way to offend anyone but nor can I be responsible for offending someone looking to be offended, it’s a fine line. Though this thread has been fascinating.
- nkrisc 8y agoYou can just say, "Jews." The article isn't necessary.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoYeah, but it's also perfectly fine to use it. Jews use it, Wikipedia uses it. The commenter also said "the Palestinians" in the very same comment in which they said "the Jews", making this whole subthread slightly silly. Not that dragging conversation into accusing others of "sentiments" they cannot disprove and one cannot prove them to have, before or even instead of dealing with the factual stuff that all parties can examine and elobarate on, is ever not silly.