On 2/9/07, Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
jayig my nomination was to maintain consistency. It wasn't a political message of any sort. You are welcome to use the word Jew on any article but when it comes to categorization "people" should be used with it for consistency among other reasons.
Is "X people" really a circumlocution? There are lots of examples where X people is somehow more acceptable than "Xs": Blacks, whites, gays, Asians - all these sound better as "... people". This may be an Australian thing, but I was certainly taught that it's better to use an adjective rather than a noun when describing people. Describing someone as "a gay" seems to subconsciously imply that they're not a person - instead, they're something different. It's not perfect though - "Lesbian person" sounds bizarre to me.
In summary: to me this has more to do with aesthetics than any racist undertones.
Steve