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

[Cool Cat]

Was that sarcasm? I am a bit confused. Based on that the usage of the word
Jew can be used in a vulgar manner, something we clearly want to avoid.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/8/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/8/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/5/07, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_2#Category:Jews
> > >
> > > I proposed a rename as per wikipedias categorization scheme, we add
> "people"
> > > to any ethnicity. There appears to be a number of panic "oppose"
> votes. What
> > > do you think?
> >
> > For what it's worth, I do find the formulations "Jews", "American
> > Jews" etc rather awkward and find they have unfortunate connotations.
>
> "It is widely recognized that the attributive use of the noun Jew, in
> phrases such as 'Jew lawyer' or 'Jew ethics', is both vulgar and
> highly offensive. In such contexts Jewish is the only acceptable
> possibility. Some people, however, have become so wary of this
> construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a
> noun, a practice that carries risks of its own. In a sentence such as
> 'There are now several Jews on the council', which is unobjectionable,
> the substitution of a circumlocution like Jewish people or persons of
> Jewish background may in itself cause offense for seeming to imply
> that Jew has a negative connotation when used as a noun."
>
> The American Heritage(r) Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
> Edition.  2000.
>
> "Jew" is not a dirty word.
>
> Jay.
>
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