08-31-2003, 10:10 PM
Wow... I have never considered the word "jew" as being racist at all. It's not politically incorrect either, it's a term to refer to a jewish person. It's a noun... jewish is not. It's like saying that Muslim is politically incorrect as opposed to "Islamic person." Anyway, I know LOTS of jews, they refer to themselves that way, we refer to them that way. Of course it depends on how you use it... if you say someone was "jewed" as I had seen soulevan put it, I consider it extremely bad, because it refers to the holocaust. If you say someone is a "dumb jew" it's not the jew part that's bad... it's the dumb part. It's like saying "you dumb american." American isn't a racial slur... but the dumb part makes it bad. Anyway, so there's no reason to make jew that way. Chink, on the other hand, is a slur on its own.