# Jewish dopers: "A Jew" vs "Jewish"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-dopers-a-jew-vs-jewish/521219>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 14, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-dopers-a-jew-vs-jewish/521219 "2009-12-14T15:43:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-dopers-a-jew-vs-jewish/521219/2 "2009-12-14T15:44:43Z")

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> [@"Community" (new NBC show)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-new-nbc-show/510596/297):
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> I sincerely appreciated Annie’s frustration with people calling her “a Jew.” I have a friend who does that from time to time, and she still doesn’t quite get how it’s just not cute or funny. I’m not religious, and I’ll be the first to point it out, but something just feels…pointed and \*mean \*about being called “a Jew” instead of Jewish.
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> In other news, i heart this show.

> [@"Community" (new NBC show)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-new-nbc-show/510596/302):
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> Because “is Jewish” tells us \*something \*about the person, “is a Jew” seems to tell us \*everything \*about the person.
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> But in the context of the show, it was more about how Shirley said it.

> [@"Community" (new NBC show)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-new-nbc-show/510596/304):
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> “Jew” as a noun has a perjoritave and reductive history that the other words don’t.

Here are the quotes I promised. Also, mods is this better off as a debate?

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