re: #146 Spare O’Lake

Your hostility to the term is strange, since it is certainly not an anti-Semitic term and in common usage is used to unite Jews and Christians rather than to divide them.
Try not to let the Beck craziness get your Jew-Fu all twisted up.

Where did you get the idea I was calling it an anti-semitic term, exactly?

It’s modern usage, as I’ve made very clear, includes being used by culture war types to stake a false claim to a Jewish tradition that they have neither respected or included. It is used by some very conservative Jews whose politics lie deep on that side, but, as I said, I agree with SFZ about it in general.

It definitely did originate as a conscious attempt at inclusiveness and helping Jews be seen as good Americans, but that was a long time ago. It is not used that way anymore.