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The Jewish people are an ethnic group, one that has survived for thousands of years of persecution and murder. So if you could maybe not start with a semantic
by torstenvl 3y ago
The Jewish people are an ethnic group, one that has survived for thousands of years of persecution and murder.
So if you could maybe not start with a semantic argument about how the Holocaust wasn't "actually" a genocide, that would be fantastic. Thanks.
- dudul 3y agoWell that escalated quickly...
- LAC-Tech 3y agoI feel like you are reading a lot into the grandparent comment. Seemed like a pretty innocuous question. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
- torstenvl 3y agoNo, I'm sorry, but this is an important moral issue. The Jewish people have a right to exist. I'm not going to stand blithely by while people chip away at that by JAQing the proposition that there is even such a thing as the Jewish people.
- GloomyBoots 3y agoDo you feel the same about other peoples? It seems like a very over-the-top response to a common and thoroughly inoffensive understanding of Judaism as a religious rather than an ethnic group. I mean, how do you feel about similar questions regarding Palestinians?
- emmelaich 3y agoOf course they have a right to exist and to self identify as Jewish. The question is is whether it's a useful category for this purpose. I think it is. But you can also divide it up various ways - Levantine, Sephardic, Ashkenazi.... Are the Lemba Jewish according to you? Does it matter whether they're observant or not?
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