re: #151 Jadespring

It’s not new at all. Been around for a looong time. If that’s what the people it refers to want to use and have no problem using it then I expect it no problem for them. Better then using us ‘non-white people’ or us ‘brown (ish) people’ or us ‘people who are not caucasian’.

It is new. Not yesterday new, but it’s only been used in maybe the last 10 years.

Lots of Jews refuse to use the word “Jew” when describing themselves. They will use “Jewish”. We had a discussion here about that, but I was first introduced to the idea on beliefnet. Is JewISH only kind of a Jew? And since Jew is often attached to negative adjectives, Jews started shying away from the usage:

He’s a Jewish man.
He’s a Jew.

I prefer #2. #1 is redundant anyway. HE is a man so you don’t have to say HE is a MAN. But you do if you use “Jewish”.

Same principle in reverse with “people of color.” Just because you’re one of the tribe (either tribe) doesn’t make it right.