On Apr 6, 6:10=A0pm, "adam russell" <adamruss...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Flash Bazbo" <djflsd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:07:58 -0700 (PDT), Transition Zone
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> >>> > And what is 'wrong' with that statement?
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> >>> Yeah, I have no idea what the poster was saying is bad about this
> >>> statement. IsJewryslang?
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> >>Jewry is a slur
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> > "The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center is both a Research Institute and
> > a Museum, with an impressive collection of ethnographic material,
> > judaica, archival do***ents, books and manuscripts."
> >http://www.babylonjewry.org.il/new/english/index.html
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> > Brazilian Jewry - A concise history
> >http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/BrazilianJewry.htm
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> > Executive Council of Australian Jewry Inc.
> > - the officially elected representative organisation
> > of the Australian Jewish Community and speaks on its behalf.
> >http://www.ecaj.org.au/
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> > North American Conference On Ethiopian Jewry is the only major
> > American organization exclusively committed to the welfare of
> > Ethiopian Jews.
> >http://www.nacoej.org/
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> > The Avraham Harman Institute of Contem****ary Jewry, a division of the
> > Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was
> > founded in 1959 by Moshe Davis
> >http://icj.huji.ac.il/about_us.asp
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> >Are you saying all these sites, dedicated to do***enting and serving
> >Jewry worldwide, are using a racial slur?
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> As well, the dictionary itself defines the word Jewry and does not call
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> slur or a slang. =A0Some *may* use it as a slur, but as with most words
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> is not used in context as a slur then it is not a slur
The "N" word was a ligitimate word in Central Europe before slavery,
for example.
Now, of course, these words are hate words.
(and i'm afraid that you're just going to have to accept that)
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