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orobas (09/07/2015) [-] I thought "That guy looks like a ******* jew" when I saw the second guy pop up on screen, I already failed the racist test.
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haeckal (09/07/2015) [-] It's because there is a Jewish "race" as well as a Jewish religion. People who have Jewish ancestry are genetically distinct from non-Jews (regardless of their religious identity).
forward.com/culture/155742/jews-are-a-race-genes-reveal/
"Here we show that within Americans of European ancestry there is a perfect genetic corollary of Jewish ancestry which, in principle, would permit near perfect genetic inference of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. In fact, even subjects with a single Jewish grandparent can be statistically distinguished from those without Jewish ancestry."
www.genomebiology.com/2009/10/1/R7
This isn't particularly surprising, as Jewish identity has always been closely linked to the narrative of being the descendants of the Biblical Patriarchs and 12 Tribes of Israel. Combined with the fact that Jews typically don't proselytize and conversions to Judaism are rare, most modern day Jews share a common ancestry that goes back thousands of years to the Middle East. Today there are also many Jews who are not religiously Jewish but still identify as Jews for cultural reasons (like Albert Einstein).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_atheists_and_agnostics
forward.com/culture/155742/jews-are-a-race-genes-reveal/
"Here we show that within Americans of European ancestry there is a perfect genetic corollary of Jewish ancestry which, in principle, would permit near perfect genetic inference of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. In fact, even subjects with a single Jewish grandparent can be statistically distinguished from those without Jewish ancestry."
www.genomebiology.com/2009/10/1/R7
This isn't particularly surprising, as Jewish identity has always been closely linked to the narrative of being the descendants of the Biblical Patriarchs and 12 Tribes of Israel. Combined with the fact that Jews typically don't proselytize and conversions to Judaism are rare, most modern day Jews share a common ancestry that goes back thousands of years to the Middle East. Today there are also many Jews who are not religiously Jewish but still identify as Jews for cultural reasons (like Albert Einstein).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_atheists_and_agnostics
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anon (09/16/2015) [-]
Being jewish isn't a race, it's an ehnicity or a religion. Saying it's a race would exclude everyone who doesn't possess the stereotypical features.
Sure jews may have simialr traits, but that is what "inbreeding" does, most jews do come from a bloodline that can date back several thousand years ago.
But you can't say that a religion is a race...
Sure jews may have simialr traits, but that is what "inbreeding" does, most jews do come from a bloodline that can date back several thousand years ago.
But you can't say that a religion is a race...
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haeckal (09/18/2015) [-] RACE, n. L. radix and radius having the same original. This word coincides in origin with rod, ray, radiate, &c.
1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob.
~ Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828
1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob.
~ Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828
