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[mamadeb]

What do you do when everyone is squeeing over something that offends you in ways that are distinctly not politically correct? (The political incorrectness is on my part, not the "somethings" part.)

I know. Just don't say anything.

But it's annoying that I don't feel free to express that opinion openly.

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[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Intermarriage is always a tricky subject. I was actually mashgiaching during a conference on intermarriage that was held in the Hillel building, so I overheard a lot of the conversations.

I guess others find it hard to respect a position that they see as discriminating against others. And a lot of people would see being against intermarriage as being discriminatory against non-Jews. Usually I don't say anything, unless I know the people I'm talking to really well and know that they know my general beliefs.

Now I'm curious as to what this "ode to intermarriage" is...

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

It's a very cute songvid for Stargate: Atlantis (songvid: a series of clips from a tv series or movie set to a song.) The song is a Jewish man declaring his love for Irish girls, the vid makes it about one of the two male leads for the other. Now, my reaction was for the song itself, not the actual songvid - the first man is, in fact, Canadian of Scottish descent and the second, while not a girl, is, in fact, Irish-American.

It's just the song itself - I know it was meant to be funny, but the guy used words like "shiksa" and the one Jewish woman who appeared slept with his brother and the whole thing hit a big button with me.

(And my reaction gets more and more silly as I write this.)

[vass]

Well, shiksa is a hot-button word all on its own, isn't it?

Without having heard the song, I can't say, but I'm guessing it's pro-intermarriage in a way that's actually more like being disrespectful of the singer's own ethnic/religious group?

I think "I think the fanvid is very cute, but I found the song problematic, and here's why" would be a reasonable thing to say.