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HarmlessRabbit · 10-22-2003, 05:06 PM

I read a really good article on Slate about this whole thing:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2090091/

I think calling Jews greedy is just like making watermelon jokes about blacks, calling hispanics lazy, or calling the Irish drunks. It's invoking the worst possible stereotype of the culture. For a professional writer to not realize that is a fireable offense in my book, for stupidity if nothing else.

10-22-2003, 05:06 PM	#18 (permalink)
HarmlessRabbit Junkie Location: San Jose, CA	I read a really good article on Slate about this whole thing: http://slate.msn.com/id/2090091/ I think calling Jews greedy is just like making watermelon jokes about blacks, calling hispanics lazy, or calling the Irish drunks. It's invoking the worst possible stereotype of the culture. For a professional writer to not realize that is a fireable offense in my book, for stupidity if nothing else.