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Rename Iron Golems

Hi, I was hoping to suggest renaming iron golems to.... literally anything else. I've been calling them iron constructs myself.

The thing is that the golem is a creature from Jewish folklore and culture that is very culturally important that has been co-opted by non-Jewish people as this generic fantasy robot thing, and that's not what it's for. It's specifically a created being meant to protect the Jews who built it.

In an attempt to lessen the amount of appropriation from the Jewish closed culture, I would like to suggest renaming the minecraft iron golem (and, if ever implemented, the tuff and copper golems) to something else, as there are other words that can be used for such entities without stealing from Jewish culture. Thank you!

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    Similar arguments could be had over Zombies, and (in other games) Elves, Gnomes, Vampires, etc. - pretty much every fictional creature of the fantasy genre out there arguably is appropriated and modified from some other culture. Calling this "stealing" may be a bit excessive.

    In any case, Minecraft and Mojang are not "stealing" anything here - they're just referencing a pre-existing concept of the fantasy genre.

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    Second this. Stop with the antisemitism.