Ashkenazi Jews Are Still People of Color: Reply to Critics

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I have a cousin who is a quarter Ashkenazi. She doesn't look Jewish or middle eastern, she looks Polish. I literally worked with a Polish girl who could have been her twin. A lot of mixing and inter-breeding happened in the East and people often decided their ethnicity on the basis of the religion they followed rather than their heritage. There's a reason Yiddish is nothing like Hebrew. The Ashkenazi even have their own genes which aren't like either other Jews or Europeans. That's where the cystic fibrosis mutation comes from.

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

The presence of Jews in “Europe“ is because of a diaspora, just like the presence of Black people outside of Africa.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's the cause of their presence in my family then?

Did they just immigrate in?

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

Melanin deficiency disorder is a disease, not a demographic.