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ReggieTheReckless posted...

There is more than one type of jew

This.

The question effectively becomes meaningless unless you clarify whether or not you're referring to Judaism as a religion/philosophy/culture/identity or if you're limiting discussion solely to an ethnic definition. But even if you just stick to "race" as opposed to ideology, you're still hitting the roadblock of asking exactly what a Jew IS.

Do you go with the Nazi definition that anyone who has a Jew in their ancestry up to the third generation is still Jewish? Only people of a certain genetic map? Only people who identify as Jewish? Only people from Israel or with roots in the Middle East as a whole?

And that's not even getting into even thornier questions of what exactly you mean by "white". Like how 100 years ago the Japanese were described as "the Whites of Asia" by European powers - is "white" solely a genetic or phenotypical trait? Or is it a cultural mindset/identity? If it's a state of being entirely detached from pure genetics, how exactly do you define it, and how do you differentiate between definitions that are "right" versus those that are "wrong" (more specifically, if you define it one way, and I define it another, how do we decide which of us gets to be correct)?

The problem with concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural identity is that even the scientific terms and assumptions are shifting on a regular basis. What we consider "objective fact" today may be considered to be horrible racist bullshit tomorrow.
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