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Entry: A Black New Year for the Good Conrad Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_black_new_year_for_the_good_conrad#13347 Post contents: I do not know Jack Rich, Roland Maruska nor Morgan Randall Kane, nor I am familiar with their writing. I reject being arbitrarily lumped with the former two if they are indeed anti-semites as Mr. Kane seems to suggest, as I am sure Mr. Kane would object to being lumped with them in the sentence above. I am not suggesting that Mr. Kane is himself an anti-semite, but trying to show how easy it is to defame a person simply by lumping them together with other supposed pariahs. As for my use of the word 'Jewess,' I am not going to apologize to Mr. Kane or anybody else for living on an island in a province in a country that is not yet completely infected by holier-than-thou political correctness. Speaking French, Spanish and Italian, I find English impoverished in its usual rigid neutering of all sexual distinction in the use of descriptive nouns. The few usages still allowed in English, although perhaps thought quaint and archaic by some like Mr. Kane, are still useful in certain instances, and I submit that describing Barbara Amiel Black as 'an angry agnostic cultural Jewess' is completely apropos. She has only recently shown the faintest glimmer of interest in the Jewish faith of her ancestors in her column in Maclean's magazine. She has advocated never-ending pre-emptive warmaking for the Empire, like her husband, for many years. If the good and faithful Jewish women at the website "JEWESS" are comfortable designating themselves as such, I humbly submit that the word is good enough for me or any other courageous writer to use, whether Gentile, Jew or Jewess.... Described as 'The Tribe's Better Half,' a blog about Jewish women's issues, [it] is part of the Canonist network of religion blogs. The website is found here: http//jewess.canonist.com/ Sent at: 2008 07 20