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A religion is a set of beliefs. A race is a set of physical characteristics. They are completely different things, and I have no idea why (or how) you could pos

• pavlov 10y ago
  If it's that simple, answer this: Jews -- religion or race? Racist doctrines are about discrimination towards those deemed inherently "other" and therefore irredeemably unworthy of something (for example the consideration of entry into a country). It's not just about physical characteristics, even though 19th and 20th century racists did create a lot of pseudoscience around that to justify discrimination. You would probably agree that Nazi Germany was a racist regime, right? If you look at the categories of Untermensch [1], they are a hodgepodge mix of ethnicity, religion and subjective personal defects. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch