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- From: mark@cs.albany.edu (Mark Steinberger)
- Subject: Re: goy
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.040258.28472@cs.albany.edu>
- Originator: mark@karp.albany.edu
- Sender: usenet@cs.albany.edu (USENet news)
- Organization: The University at Albany, State University of New York
- References: <9211191645.AA28619@tequila.lanl.gov> <1empbmINNbb9@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:02:58 GMT
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- In article <1empbmINNbb9@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love) writes:
- >However, the word as it is often used today--and
- >particularly as it derives from the Yiddish usage--is indeed
- >derogatory.
-
- Given the prevalence of discrimination, and even outright pogroms, in
- the treatment of Jews by their neighbors over the past few centuries,
- is it any surprise that the Yiddish word for non-Jew would have some
- negative connotations?
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- Is that any reason to stop using it?
-
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- Viewed another way, should we stop calling ourselves Jews because the
- word has had negative connotations for a number of non-Jews?
-
-
- --Mark
-