Ashkenazi Jews Are Still People of Color: Reply to Critics

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Perhaps, but I can see why African-Americans think they are not. Even liberal non-anti-semites like Whoopi Goldberg don't view Jews as people of color.

They see people who look white, and have even more social and economic privilege than the 'other whites'.

In terms of being visibly non-white, they are not of color. In terms of privilege, they are NOT in the same boat as the African-Americans and other people of color despite what the New York Times may be writing. They are only non-white in a purely genetic sense that their DNA is roughly 1/2 middle eastern, but not in any of the ways that actually matter socially.

[–]JewsAreOfColor[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Jews are so white that Hitler tried to kill us all. Oh yes, Hitler really hated us white people. Why, he was a regular George Jefferson!

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I am talking about the race dynamics in modern day USA, not 1930's Weimar Germany. Irish and Italians were not viewed as white either at one point, but are today, at least in the US

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I know of two boomer-aged Italian/English American couples who call themselves interracial.

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

The Irish are based. The Italians are just biased thugs.