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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hosted an Oktoberfest party for our neighborhood and noticed that a few of my Jewish friends didn't attend and were kind of quiet with me last time I saw them.  DH and I aren't German, but we did the traditional German beer, food, etc.  Maybe it's coincidental that they were busy and it's my imagination.  Hope this is the case as I'd never want to offend them.  [/quote]

As a Jew, I'm more disturbed that you noticed the religions of people who weren't there, and are preemptively judging them for it, than I am by your decision to have a German-themed party. [/quote]

Meh. OP did nothing wrong.[/quote]

Didn't say OP did. Just compared the two. It's one thing to check a calendar for Jewish holidays or think of how something might come off before you have an event. it's another to think after an event "gee, X, Y and Z behaved a certain way, wonder if it is because they are Jewish."  IME, the first comes off as generally respectful. The second does not as it is the very definition of stereotyping. [/quote]

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