[WikiEN-l] Category:Jews -> Category:Jewsih people

[Cool Cat]

I do not believe Jews are singled out. Every other ethnicity has people
after them. Jews are the only ethnicity without it.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/5/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Cool Cat wrote:
>
> >Perhaps, but changing the manual of style is premature at this point
> IMHO.
> >
> >A good number of the votes were as per  those comments pointed out here,
> >which is rather troublesome of course. But, I think the issue at hand is
> not
> >the number of uncivil comments directed at me, but the topic at hand.
> >
> >I think it is good practice to toss in "people" after any ethnicity or
> >nationality. Some of the terms can have multiple meanings at that was the
> >original reason for this IIRC. What do you guys think?
> >
> >On 2/5/07, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>"...Also without assuming bad faith I have to ask why people would be
> so
> >>>concerned with moving this category..- Moshe Constantine Hassan
> >>>Al-Silverburg"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I interpreted that as assuming bad faith against the opposers, not the
> >>proposer. It's rather ambiguous.
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Strong Oppose per IZAK, frankly I'm shocked that this is even up for
> >>>discussion. ... -- Chabuk"
> >>>"Oppose. ... Share Chabuk's outrage that we're even voting on this.
> JFW"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Agreed, those are baffling and offensive comments, and should result
> >>in warnings to the commenters. However, they are just 2 people - the
> >>vast majority of people commenting did so with no problems at all.
> >>
> It's just another exercise in political correctness.  All sorts of words
> can have multiple meanings, and freezing out a term because some
> minority wants to read additional connotations into the use of the word
> does not warrant suche an exercise.  Are we also changing "Buddhists"
> into "Buddhist people", and doing the same for all the other religious
> groups?  Such a discussion would be better placed at that general
> religious level instead of singling out the Jews.
>
> Whatever I may think of the specific issue I also think that anyone who
> finds those opposing comments to be offensive is only looking for
> excuses to be offended.  Also assuming that the the other person
> assuming bad faith only seems to elevate the conversation to the silly
> level of meta-bad-faith.
>
> Ec
>
>
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