League_Girl wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
What she said was dumb, suspending her for it is also dumb. Interesting to see some pushback on the "Jews are just another type of white people" view that's been voguish on the left recently, perhaps the tides are starting to turn.
So Jewish people aren't white? What are they then? I thought white was because of our skin color. Had I been this literal all along? ?:
Skin color isn't the only way to define race, it's simply the most visible one.
"White" isn't a race.
Just like "black" isn't really a race, either. Except that white Europeans saw it as one and, thus, it became defining in western society.
The whole topic is far more complicated than my simplified summary, of course, and I'm not an expert. But I was very aware growing up back in the 60's/70's that Jews were considered a different race and often treated very differently from people with Christian European backgrounds. While Judaism is a faith, most Jews are also an historic group of people with a specific genetic lineage.
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