must be some other redbird....

[redbird]

A friend of mine was writing about her reactions to Yom Kippur. It's a locked post, so I won't point you there or quote her by name, but it invokes me, by LJ username, as someone who is probably upset that she doesn't fast or otherwise observe the holiday.

My reaction was, basically, "Who, me? Me, who has a nice chicken tikka coming from the Indian takeout place?" I posted that; she hasn't responded.

It really feels as though she's remembering a conversation with someone else, and putting my name on it. I'm a pinko New York humanist; around here "Jewish" is part of an ethnicity.

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[redbird]

OK. I'm the only other Jewish person on your friends list. Why does that make me the generic "person who will get upset when you write this"?

That's what I'm objecting to. Not whatever you choose to practice or not--keep a kosher home, dance naked on Beltane, or think of churches purely as a place to duck in out of the rain, it's your life.

What I object to is that you were imputing a judgment to me, based on no knowledge except the shared ethnicity you thought I would judge you because of, and putting my name on it in your posts.

Oh, and filkerdave isn't "tolerating" you being religious--if anything, the reverse, since he's religious and you aren't.