Jewish can be an ethnic type as well as a religious type.
I try and do things in a similar way to how you say you look at it.
I don't think that completely avoiding any racial descriptors is the right way to go about it. Or any descriptors, for that matter. If the description is relevant, I'll put it in and try and be respectful, and I admit that I fail sometimes as everyone does.
If you go to great lengths to mentioning race, or social group or handicap status or any one of a number of other descriptions, it seems to me an awful lot like implying that those descriptions are Something We Don't Talk About Because They're Shameful Things.
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on 2009-10-16 01:26 pm (UTC)I try and do things in a similar way to how you say you look at it.
I don't think that completely avoiding any racial descriptors is the right way to go about it. Or any descriptors, for that matter. If the description is relevant, I'll put it in and try and be respectful, and I admit that I fail sometimes as everyone does.
If you go to great lengths to mentioning race, or social group or handicap status or any one of a number of other descriptions, it seems to me an awful lot like implying that those descriptions are Something We Don't Talk About Because They're Shameful Things.