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FWIW re your last two paragraphs: I think you're reading too much into the small town newspaper editorial. "Bradford Road" is how you describe the road they l

FWIW re your last two paragraphs: I think you're reading too much into the small town newspaper editorial. "Bradford Road" is how you describe the road they lived on, in a small town paper. Scarsdale NY is a wealthy suburb in Westchester County, with a large Jewish population. "Solomon Schechter" (your redaction) is a private school in Manhattan named after an important rabbi. Censoring his name is confusing. Are you concerned that readers here will think you are reacting negatively to her family's (presumed) religious affiliation? Small town editorial is chummy and insular, but it's not written for a larger audience. I don't see anything unusual or inappropriate in the writing here. I feel that you missed the most egregious problem with the article though. It was posted in 2016, and almost five years later, no one has corrected the misspelling of the name of the town!

sandworm101 5y ago
>> Censoring his name is confusing. It isn't that. If we are talking about family relations, daughters working for people who know their fathers, a school with ties to a particular religion or community injects a statement that I did not want to make. It is irrelevant to the issue but can easily start a _very_ negative conversation. I don't think ever mentioning someone's likely religion in such context is ever appropriate. As for "of such and such road", that is a very common phrase going back centuries. It is a way of stating the wealth, or lack thereof, of a person's family.
- quesera 5y ago
  OK fair enough. But what if her name had been something distinctly ethnicity-or-religion-linked instead of Dani Lever (which is actually pretty distinct though of course not determinative)? Is her name off limits? Ironically, perhaps, your redaction was the only part of your comment that made me want to read the linked article, which I found 110% inoffensive (aside from the spelling errors!). Sorry for the meta-discussion. Not much to say about the "privileged families raise privileged children, film at 11" thread.

sandworm101 5y ago

>> Censoring his name is confusing. It isn't that. If we are talking about family relations, daughters working for people who know their fathers, a school with ties to a particular religion or community injects a statement that I did not want to make. It is irrelevant to the issue but can easily start a _very_ negative conversation. I don't think ever mentioning someone's likely religion in such context is ever appropriate. As for "of such and such road", that is a very common phrase going back centuries. It is a way of stating the wealth, or lack thereof, of a person's family.

quesera 5y ago
OK fair enough. But what if her name had been something distinctly ethnicity-or-religion-linked instead of Dani Lever (which is actually pretty distinct though of course not determinative)? Is her name off limits? Ironically, perhaps, your redaction was the only part of your comment that made me want to read the linked article, which I found 110% inoffensive (aside from the spelling errors!). Sorry for the meta-discussion. Not much to say about the "privileged families raise privileged children, film at 11" thread.