New minority label at CUNY: ‘Jewish’

The New York Post ^ | June 3, 2012 | Susan Edelman

[Stoat]

Something isn’t kosher about a CUNYscheme to single out Jews, angry professors charge.
Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNYadministrators have broken out Jews into a separate minority group:
“White/Jewish.”
CUNYinsists “some faculty” want the label, instead of being lumped in as just white. But the theistic tag has outraged both
Jewish and non-Jewish professors, and sparked a furor.
“This is, as far as I know, the first time a religion has been introduced into any affirmative-action document,” said David Gordon,
a history professor at Bronx Community College and the Graduate Center. “What would the response be to a category
‘White/Methodist?’ Silly? Irrelevant?”
“It’s an insult and idiotic,” said Hershey Friedman, deputy chairman of the Finance and Business Management Department at
Brooklyn College. “Most Jews are brown-skinned. We also have black Jews and Asian Jews. Once you mix religion with race
you’re opening a Pandora’s box— and you look stupid.”

[Paladin2]

Yeah, that's because YOU just don't know.

Just sayin'. ;-)

[Paladin2]

It's all a cluster F***.

Define race, measure color on some part of the body.

[MS from the OC]

Since the 2010 census, I have answered all questions on race the same... check the box marked “Other” and then write in, “American.”

I know what my religion is...
I know where my family came from in generations gone by...
and I know who I am.
I am an American!

[firebrand]

I get the point. Ridiculous to add to the diversity madness. Thanks for posting.

By the way, Arabs are Caucasian. A lot of people on FR and elsewhere make the mistake of saying Arabs and whites as if they’re two different things. Semites are Caucasian.

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[NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN]

Ironically too, certain white Christians, evangelist and born again types, mainly, who at one time might have held anti-Semitic feelings, now, because of the biblical importance of Israel have become very pro-Jewish, while blacks and other non-whites, minorities who always were helped and supported by Jews, have become some of the worst anti-Semites in our country.