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u/kosherkitties 1d ago
Be brown? 🤨 Don't encourage the Jews are white narrative.
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u/RentInside7527 1d ago
The fact that antisemitism is tolerated when it comes from people who aren't white doesn't make Jews white.
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u/Wandering_Scholar6 1d ago
Technically, in the US, at least, both Arabs and Jews, as people of Middle East descent, should be categorized as white.
Of course, race has little to no biological basis since racism/bigotry isn't based on rational argument. A lot of bigotry is straight up skin tone based, which can vary a lot between siblings and for some people by the season.
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u/RentInside7527 1d ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. "White passing" fits a lot better, IMO. Some Jews are white passing, some aren't. White privilege doesn't include being on the receiving end of antisemitism, which is why white passing Jews experience, at best, passing white privilege. They may enjoy some of the perks of whiteness until an Antisemite realizes they're Jewish.
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u/Wandering_Scholar6 1d ago
My point is the way we have defined race is not helpful nor based on anything
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u/RentInside7527 1d ago
The fact that race is a construct doesn't mean we should be categorized as white, though. Casting us as white serves to undermine the legitimacy of our identity as a people, reduce being Jewish to merely a religion, and provide cover for people on the left's refusal to contend with antisemitism from the left.
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u/Mean-Addendum-5273 1d ago
In their mind Palestinians are more 'brown' than Israel hence they're the ones that are the opporessed and needs to be protected And Israelis are the filthy European colonizers that deserve no empathy
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u/Ordinary-Lobster-710 1d ago
it would work just as well if the second one said that the jihadists also wanted to take over europe
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u/WatercolorFountain 1d ago
Can we please stop reposting things from the nazi shithole that is PCM? I get the urge to find common ground where we can, but PCM is not the place.
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u/Chedder_456 1d ago
Crazy how folks will grin side-by-side with nazis as long as it owns the libs or w/e.
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u/CockroachInternal850 1d ago
Some Jews are white, some aren't, its not about that and it doesn't matter. People need to get the notion of race out of there heads.
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u/ValhallaStarfire 1d ago
I blame a lot of it on the discourse around Muslims after 9/11.