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[–]ElectricSheep 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Remember these are the same people trying to tell you race is a social construct

[–]Fiyanggu 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly, they use the concept as needed to push their narrative of the moment. I can't believe more people don't see through it.

[–]BISH 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Remember these are the same people trying to tell you race is a social construct

"Racism" is a shibboleth. It's dog whistling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

A shibboleth is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. Shibboleths have been used throughout history in many societies as passwords, simple ways of self-identification, signaling loyalty and affinity, maintaining traditional segregation, or protecting from real or perceived threats.

It's a strategic concept.
It's a divide and conquer tool.

[–]BISH 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Racist is literally a meaningless term

Is the term "goyim" racist?

[–]UncleWillard56 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Idk if it's racist, but it's bigoted, imo. "Gentile" means heathen, but Jewish people don't look at it as a negative term necessarily. It just means "not Jewish." I think it's bigoted though.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I don't know if it's bigoted. Jews function more like freemasons than racists, where they show favoritism to their own. It's more nepotism than bigotry. It's difficult, but if someone is persistent, they can convert to Judaism. The reason rabbis are hesitant to convert gentiles is because they believe they have a special covenant with God, which essentially means they have a lot more rules to follow. And they don't want to put that burden on gentiles who were blessed with not being bound to it. Frequently turning down converts is a sort of test to ensure that someone is really serious about wanting to be part of the Jewish covenant, and not a confused gentile who thinks he has to in order to please God.

[–]UncleWillard56 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Idk. I saw some youtube videos of this guy asking Israeli Jews, Muslims, and Christians specifics, and the Jews were very adamant that even if someone converts they'd never let them marry into the family because it would pollute the purity of the bloodline. That's extreme and smacks of orthodoxy, but it's racist in that context. I don't think your garden variety, Western Jewish person would agree.

Brings up a question though about bloodlines. Judaism is tied to bloodlines and that speaks to race or at least ethnicity. Certainly anti-Semites consider Jewish a race as much as it is a religion. Not saying I agree, but that didn't come out of some racist vacuum. The religion itself fosters that.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Remember extreme Christian orthodoxy used to hate interracial relationships too. And to an extent it's starting to come back as identity politics goes through the roof.

[–]UncleWillard56 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

True that. I wonder if that has more to do with a transition in Western society away from its religious roots. We are moving away from religion and more to rationality as a unifying principle. Don't get me wrong, I think it took religion to raise the bar on humanity and get us to this point and without it, I'm not sure we would have survived without that unifying principle. But now that we're transitioning, the death throes are causing panic. Identity politics is just a symptom of that, and by backing people into a corner and asking them to ignore their religion, which is often the foundation for all their beliefs, is bound to cause blowback.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's ironic is how Christianity protested all the religious crap Judaism had accumulated, and Jesus hated how the Pharisees blindly followed dogma and didn't have open minds or use their brains. Paul was a natural debator. Lifting the forgeries away it turns out they had radical egalitarian beliefs that put us to shame, a whole 2000 years ago. That's why gentile ministry was such a big deal to them, because most Jews only cared about other Jews. But now it's been turned into a foolish religion itself, where you're not allowed to question the official doctrine or you get labeled as a heretic.

[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same for Martin Luther and the Catholic Church. That kind of power just naturally corrupts people.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If it's spelled out like that in English, probably a little. In Hebrew it simply means nations or people of nations, usually non-Jewish by implication.

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, it is from the Hebrew word for “nations.” Unless, of course, you find the entire idea of a nation state to be inherently racist in and of itself.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

These are the same people that claim to support black lives, but instead, refuse to hire any and let them run the street in gangs. Ever notice the blue cities have a problem with black people in criminal gangs? Red cities do not?

[–]Gaydolf_Titler 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oklahoma City is one of the most conservative cities in the country, yet is among the worst in drive-by shooting rates.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

2022 is lit all of the sudden

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You misspelled "literally".

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the core definition still holds true, despite how it's been politicized and perverted. It simply means you draw a distinction solely on race. That can be good or bad. "Asians are good at math" doesn't sound like a bad thing to say, but it is racist. Racist has gotten a negative connotation. It's also been polluted by the term "systemic racism" which is totally different, but it's now lumped in as a singular term. I completely disagree. If the system is racist, then everyone who lives within it is racist, no?

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That word died the day Clarence Thomas declared a jihad on Gay marriage.