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Family report // Christianising Jews = BAD Idea

Jun 19, 2010 16:18

My parents are at a church retreat this weekend and will be gone until tomorrow afternoon, leaving us kids to fend for ourselves. The retreat actually began yesterday evening, but this morning was my brother's convocation from university and so they didn't leave until after. I'd asked my brother if he wanted my sister and me to attend his ( Read more... )

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kita0610 June 19 2010, 20:20:41 UTC

Oh my. Thank you for educating your friend on why that would be a bad bad plan.

scrollgirl June 19 2010, 20:26:46 UTC

Heh. I gave my sister a pat on the back for that one. I mean, using Hebrew characters to make a cross is bad enough, but to live with cultural/religious appropriation tattooed on your body for the rest of your life???

rubygirl29 June 19 2010, 21:05:58 UTC

Oh, yeah. Such a bad idea! Education is needed, I think.

I can't do RPF for many reasons, but chief among them is the fact that I don't know the real person. It's one thing to play in AUs with fictional characters. In RL there are no alternate AUs, and I believe you have to respect the real person's life, beliefs and privacy.

scrollgirl June 19 2010, 23:53:14 UTC

It would have been just as bad if it'd been a canon Jewish character, like the Eppes men on Numb3rs or Willow on Buffy, but yeah, it feels worse because this is a real guy who has real beliefs and and a real racial identity.

gehayi June 20 2010, 01:52:05 UTC

I never heard of Gabe Saporta before, so I wouldn't know what his religion was. But turning a Jewish guy into a Catholic priest...yeah. Tacky.

Was it an arbitrary change, or did the author know that he was Jewish before she wrote the story with him as a Catholic priest? I think the latter would be more offensive.

scrollgirl June 20 2010, 02:54:46 UTC

He's some kind of singer/musician guy. I don't know, I'm not in Bandom. It was arbitrary in the sense that the change served no real purpose, and also arbitrary because the author didn't think about what it meant to convert a Jew into a Catholic. But she knows he's Jewish in RL, so yeah, offensive.