User talk:A generic person


 * Dear Bbb23 (talk),
 * Recently, you reverted a change on the Denzel Washington page that was intended to use a more politically neutral reference to the state of Israel. Politically, Israel is a Zionist state, so referring to it as either a "state" or a "Zionist state" is factual, unambiguous, and does not reflect a POV. However, calling Israel a "Jewish state" reflects the Zionist POV that equates Zionist politics with the Jewish identity, and with the political aspirations of all its nationals and citizens. This is not the case, as approximately 30% of its population is not Jewish. In a purely demographic sense, if the term "Jewish" is taken to allude to the ethnicity of its inhabitants, calling Israel a "Jewish state" is roughly equivalent to calling the United States a "white state" (when Hispanics are categorized as "white"). My note of explanation was not intended as political commentary, but rather to be clear as possible on this sensitive topic.


 * For these reasons, I'd like to see a more NPOV reference to Israel on this page like "Zionist state" or simply "state". This is supposed to be a page about an actor, not platform for Zionist identity politics.