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Thread #154768   Message #3633685
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
16-Jun-14 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: Jews Harp banned?
Subject: RE: Jews Harp banned?
I know not what museum this was, nor where. But where do
they think they got the authority to announce that "you cannot
refer to a Jews Harp as a Jews Harp any more?"

The museum is surely within its rights to instruct its own
employees in the language that may be used in the museum's
name(though I think that policy is ill-founded, ill-advised),
but if they are speaking to the wider population, whence cometh
their authority? The term "Jews Harp" is of great age, and
is not pejorative by any means.

Dave Oesterreich