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MosheFeingold

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6. I actually understand the confusion
Tue May 29, 2018, 10:52 AM
May 2018

White supremacists types say Jews (of any race) are not "white". A typical neo-Nazi phrase is something along the lines of "negroes with a high IQ" or something equally weird and disgusting.

Black Supremicists, in contrast, describe Jews as sort of a super-really-bad white person. Often mixed with "fake Jew" depending of said supremacists is related to one of the hate groups like the Black Hebrews.

Non-deep-thinking liberals often think all Jews are ethnically white, especially when arguing that Israel is some sort of European colony (false for many reasons, most notably most Jewish Israelis are Sephardic or Mizrahim from the Middle East and thus darker skinned than an average Arab, but also false because a typical Ashkenazi (European of late) Jewish person is genetically most similar to -- Arabs in Judea and Samaria), who I guess are "white" depending on how one is using the word.

Anyway, the point is people argue that Jewish people are whatever "other" they're mad at at the time, regardless of political stripe.

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