Re: CHAT: American Racism [was: Star Wars]

On Tue, 25 May 1999 14:29:17 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>> It's the same with race. I
>> wish we were colourblind, but we are not, and pretending we are
>isn't
>> making the situation any better.
>> Perhaps there needs to be a more comprehensive way of marking race.
>Some years ago (I forget the precise details), a Jewish group tried
>to convince a court that Jews were a race for discrimination purposes,
>not because Jews are a "race" in any conceivable ethnographic sense,
>but because people who discriminate against Jews treat them as a
>race.  The court sympathetically disagreed.
>
>--
>John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
I've actually checked off "other" on forms and written "Jewish" or
"Ashkenazic Jew" in the blank, in the past.
Now i usually just leave "race/ethnicity" out - all the forms i've come
across have it marked as Optional.

-Stephen (Steg)

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