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I'm glad you've never heard "goyim" used in a derogatory manner, whereas I have. Tone is difficult to infer from plain text. To avoid confusion, I recommend you
by neartheplain 5y ago
I'm glad you've never heard "goyim" used in a derogatory manner, whereas I have. Tone is difficult to infer from plain text. To avoid confusion, I recommend you use other groups and races' preferred labels when speaking about them in public. This is advice I follow and have found to be a good rule.
Just so you know I'm not making this up; Merriam-Webster lists "goy" as "sometimes disparaging":
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goy
Use of this word in 2017 got Huffington Post in trouble with the Anti-Defamation League, and others who felt it was over the line:
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/huffpost-bannon-headline-goy-bye-creates-backlash/ https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/huffpost-bannon-headlin...
- dsr_ 5y agoI agree that HuffPo chose the wrong term there. There's nothing particularly apropos about Bannon not being Jewish, and HuffPo is not a Jewish organization. I repeat: feel free to call out people who are being derogatory, no matter what the term. Banning words regardless of context hurts everyone.