Because some of the funniest comics and smartest writers are Jewish, and I think that is very cool, but I hope I never made anyone squirm as much by talking about it
I had the weirdest project yesterday that left me kind of wigged out. I was asked to list the members of all of our presentation teams over the past year, but then also to identify minorities among them. Women too, but at least you can do that from the name.
It was for a legitimate, good purpose, and the request came from our Chief Diversity Officer, who was meeting with the global executive committee this am and trying to make the point that walking in with a wall of white men in suits is a) way too common and b) not good for business, both of which I firmly believe and I think the numbers bear out. But the feeling of going through and identifying, some of them just from names and b/w pictures? And not sending him an email all full of qualifiers about how "the name would seem to indicate but I don't know how this person identifies" etc. Even one person who knew what I was doing and why and brought up the fact that he's half-Korean, which I hadn't known. It left me feeling unsettled all day.