{"id":6399,"date":"2005-06-21T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/are-you-a-papist.html"},"modified":"2005-06-21T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T15:41:10","slug":"are-you-a-papist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/are-you-a-papist.html","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Papist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Corner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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HATE SPEECH?<\/strong> [John Derbyshire]
A reader has chid me for using the term "Papist" in a private exchange, to refer to Roman Catholics (of which he is one). <\/p>\n

Is this unacceptable? I am always way behind the curve on this stuff. I caused a stunned silence in company a few years ago by using the word "Jewess" in all innocence. (One of the stunnees, a Jewish lady, explained to me afterwards: "I<\/em> can use that word, but you<\/em> can’t." I have stopped using it.) <\/p>\n

I mean "Papist" light-heartedly, as ought to be clear from the fact that I refer to persons of my own persuasion as "Prods." There is, however and alas, not much light-heartedness in the area of self-identification nowadays, and for all I know I may be causing people to gasp, sputter, and swoon. Let me know, please. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ramesh doesn’t mind. I do, especially when it comes from an Anglican Brit (even one who calls himself a "Prod" [and…btw…I always thought that Anglicans virulently reject placing themselves in the "Protestant" category…but I suppose there are different levels of that, as well] – any Catholic ethnic identity I have is all French-Canadian, and it’s implanted a knee-jerk reaction to what the Johnny Bulls (as my mother said they used to call the Anglo-Saxon Protestants in Maine) have to say about me.<\/p>\n

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