As a Jew, I'm sure that the rest of the world will eventually become a multi-racial world where everyone is of the same mixed race. However, Jews are a unique and outstanding culture. Many of us are concerned with making sure Jew stays with Jew. But I would encourage the rest of the world to mix, and alleviate racism.
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This quote may have come out a little weird, but I don't see anything wrong with Jews wanting our children to remain Jewish and preserve our cultural identity to some degree. Although I am personally okay with intermarriage, I think it is an issue which hasn't been dealt with very well by some of the more conservodox wings of Judaism.
I'm confused about the problem with this quote. It's natural to want to preserve your culture, and if anything could cure racism (not that we wouldn't find some other way to hate each other for no basis in reality -- being afraid of that which is different is unfortunately natural as well) I would think it would be having nothing recognizable as a "race". Whether that's logical, feasible or even desirable (we're trying to save endangered languages and such for a reason), it seems to be an innocent statement.
So all other races should interbreed and blend until there is only grey and therefore no more racism...but the jews should remain apart and aloof from everyone else?
Presumeing that actually happened and the jews were therefore the only 'white' race left on earth don't you think it might cause a little discrimination/hatred/distrust?
The reason this got approved was because it says: "sure you guys breed and mix races until all other racism goes away...but we will still be the JEWS!"
Many of us are concerned with making sure Jew stays with Jew. But I would encourage the rest of the world to mix, and alleviate racism.
Sure that is fine for the rest of you, mix your race with other inferior breeds, but as gods chosen we jews must maintain our seperation from all other peoples.
Meh not racist. A person could convert to judaism. More religionist.
Still uninformed. Yes race will probably disappear but differences in appearance won't. It depends on how genes combine. 2 people could have half the genes for dark skin and half the genes for light skin but in opposite spots of each other and potentially they could have a child who gets the light half from both parents or the dark half from both parents. We'll tend towards an inbetween skin color but we won't all look the same.
@jsonitsac and Zoo:
He's saying that it's fine for all other races, cultures and religions to merge into one and loose their individual, distinnctive traits, but it's not okay for the same thing to happen with the Jews...
...and you don't see how this is even a little bit racist? Seriously?
Replace the word "Jew" with the word "white" or "black" in the quote, maybe that'll help you get it.
To substitute "white" for Jew is a stretch in my opinion since the term "white culture" is total bullshit invented by racists, where as a unique Jewish culture has survived against all odds for at least 5,000 years. Those Jews who oppose intermarriage do so not on the grounds that Judaism is a superior religion or a superior group of people, rather it is out of the concern that the things that make us unique, the things that make us different would disappear. As the world moves towards a greater sense of uniformity about culture there are concerns amongst nearly all cultural minority groups about this issue.
jsonitsac:
You are a lying sack of Zionist shit. Jews oppose marriage because they want to stay seperate and not superior?
What makes this any different than Stormfront crap, huh?
White culture exists, just as Jewish culture.
@929512
You took the words right out of my mouth, er, keyboard.
This is incredibly racist, and everyone would be saying so if he had said "white" instead of Jewish. Jews DO see themselves as a race, hence a child is not considered to be born a Jew unless the mother is Jewish. As a gentile who has dated Jews and run into this prejudice with boyfriends' families, I know whereof I speak. One mother even told me it infuriated her that a guy was dating me and might contribute the a further "watering down" of Jewish blood.
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Apoc89
I'm not sure what's worse: The quote, or the comments here who don't understand why it's racist. "
Care to enlighten the rest of us dullards then?
Fine, Stay a jew.
But please reform your race purity laws out of existance.
Please abolish your requirement for war and genocide against everyone who isnt part of your imaginary races of ham, shemp, and japeth.
Please reform your cult to no longer require war and aggression.
Please reform your holy laws to alow the existance of others.
And please condemn the actions of your co-religionists who spit on, and throw rocks at, people of obvious mixed ethnicity
Slightly more racist than the average Joe, but I think it's pretty normal to want races to mix while also clinging to your own ethnic identity. Illogical, yeah, but certainly not very far from baseline human irrationality.
A Jewish racist. This is unique. But the Jewish race isn't "pure". They've spent hundreds of years mixing with the Europeans. I'm sure they tried to keep it in the family, but ultimately, over that long a period of time, it would have failed anyway. There's nothing wrong with wanting to keep your cultural purity, it just hasn't happened the way you think it has.
I do understand where Sawyer's coming from; wanting to mix races but hold on to different points of one's own culture.
However, the racist did say "Jews are a unique and outstanding culture" and allowed the other inferior races (not just religions, guys) to mix, since clearly other cultures aren't unique and outstanding, thus the other races aren't.
Look, guys, he's saying "the world would be wonderful if it was a big melting pot! Oh, except for Jews, we must be kept pure because we are superior."
The former doesn't defend the latter. It's bigoted, 'kay?
@JohnTheAtheist
Well, he could be a Fundamental Jew, no?
This guy is a real card.
"Many of us are concerned with making sure Jew stays with Jew. But I would encourage the rest of the world to mix, and alleviate racism."
So...its not good for Jewish people to mate with non-Jewish, but you encourage the rest of the non-Jewish to do it to "alleviate racism"? Isn't this mentality to keep a pure race that of Hitler's belief of the Aryan race? I claim this to be Hypocrisy to the Idiotic power.
For those who can't see what's racist, the issue is that he implies that his culture is unique and worth preserving, while other cultures are worthless and should be blended together to alleviate racism.
To the person who said there is no white culture, true, because "white" covers a lot of groups, but those individual groups do have their own cultures. Try "German" instead.
I also think he's making an erroneous assumption in saying that Jewish culture would be lost through interbreeding: the Jews have been mixing with other people for ages (which is why a lot of Jews don't look that different from everyone else) and have kept their culture alive.
I don't think it's exactly the worst thing that's ever appeared on RSTDT (it really doesn't compare to most of the things that come out of Stormfront,) but but I do think it's somewhat racist.
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