Is it rude to call Jewish people Jews?

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No, however, this is because the Jewish community has reclaimed the word. 100 years ago, most Christians in the English speaking word who called someone a Jew were using the word as an insult, and to be polite, they used awkward phrases like "Jewish person" or "person of the Mosaic persuasion" (the religion of Moses) or "person of the Hebrew race." This was genuinely ugly, but as most of the English speaking world began to speak more respectibly, the word Jew has been largely reclaimed, and nowdays, when a Jew hears somebody using one of those awkward constructions, the usual reaction is to guess that they are a closet antisemite trying to hide the fact.

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