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[–] 34 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Back when gaza war started, someone in the comments referred to Jews as a race. I felt like correcting them, literally copy-pasted a line from wikipedia that says they're ethnoreligious group, not a race. I was banned permamently for hate speech/bigotry.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    race is a social construct, I don't think wikipedia would have a definitive list of races

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm not sure I'm following your argument. Almost everything is a social construct to humans, that does not make it un-true. I feel like this is one of those anarchistic things people say just to appear smart, while in reality it's meaningless.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    What race someone is literally depends on what people think. There's no scientific way to establish the race of someone. A popular example is that Italians and Irish were not considered white.

    Idk how you can't follow my argument, it's clearly about the fact that it's not definitive whether Jews are a race or not. It is definitive that they are an ethnic group because you can establish that via culture and heritage and language and obviously, religion.

    I think Indians and Taiwanese look very different and don't have a similar origin, but people would say they're both "Asians" by race.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean you are kinda wrong too

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Elaborate.

    Just in case, this is where I copied it from, the very first sentence; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Because I would consider jews a ethnic group since you can be Jewish and have no religious ties and ethnoreligious implies religious ties. So really you need to say secular jews or religious jews. Wikipedia obviously just groups it all together

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