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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks 23:56.  I'm 15:11.  Greatly appreciated your thoughtful remark.  My mother-in-law (deceased) was a "Jewess" but I no longer hear people using the phrase so will avoid it because I'm afraid it will offend.

Similarly, I avoid the phrase previously discussed here "Jew them down" because I think it is derogatory, but some older friends of mine (extremely well-educated, thoughtful people) said they would use the phrase.  What's your thought?[/quote]

Not the OP, but a Jewish lady (raised in NY) here. Jew them down is an offensive thing to say. I would be offended and think a little less of anyone who used that phrase. BTW, my grandpa was extremely well-educated and a thoughtful man, but he referred to any professional woman as a girl. I spent a solid half-decade correcting him. "If she's older than 21, she's a woman." "Grandpa, she's not a girl; she's your doctor - she had more formal education under her belt than you do." It's probably just the generation they grew up in. [/quote]

When I hear someone say Jew them down, I am highly offended.  That is an anti Semitic thing to say.  If it was someone I knew saying it, I'm not sure that I would ever speak to that person again.[/quote]

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