Whoopi says the Holocaust was not about race

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Anonymous wrote:It was not about race. It was more about Religion. No?

Don't you all love it when some moron gets on and writes on a multipage thread from the literal beginning because they can't take the time to read anything before this?

Hey, PP...Looking at you. Go to bed.

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It's up to you how you want to identify. I have a friend with a similar background to yours and she does not consider herself Jewish.
It certainly is confusing.

It actually isn't. If you want to identify as part of a certain community, that community must agree you're one of them.

Good luck with that. There are hundreds of Jews right here, in addition to the global community, who cannot seem to agree on what a Jewish person is.
So- no, the community does not have to agree.

Exactly.

So you think that all I have to do to become Italian is to decide that I am?

Isn’t that how this whole “self-ID” movement that liberals are pushing works? I’m a woman because I say I am, never mind that I am an XY and phenotypically male. So, why not that you’re Jewish because just you say you are? No gatekeeping.

Italian means your family origin is from Italy. That also is not a race.

Stop gatekeeping. If you’re not careful, I’ll self-ID as you!

Is there a literacy baseline to answer on these threads- basic command of general knowledge, comprehension and writing capacity? This "gatekeeping" poster has none of the above. It shouldn't be that hard.

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Anonymous wrote:It was not about race. It was more about Religion. No?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting article:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/us/whoopi-goldberg-understanding-holocaust-race/index.html

Basically in US Jews are seen as white, in Europe they were seen as a race.

Thank you for linking to this interview. It’s very thoughtful, nuanced, and thought-provoking.

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Whoopi is an idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoopi is an idiot.

+1

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The cancel culture in this country sucks.

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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jew-people

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https://www.pewforum.org/2021/05/11/race-ethnicity-heritage-and-immigration-among-u-s-jews/

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jew-people

Britannica is generally a good source for information. But when it comes to Jews let us define ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Whoopi is an idiot.

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+2 at least she used to somewhat amusing now she’s just gross and stupid.

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So what are the implications of this for college admissions?

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares what she thinks? She’s a washed up celebrity on a defunct talk show.

I don't care at all what she thinks. What I do find concerning is that this debacle has revealed how ignorant people are about the Holocaust and who Jews are.

If Jews can't come to an agreement on who is Jewish (as evidence by this long discussion thread), it should come to no surprise that non-Jews don't know "who Jews are."

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares what she thinks? She’s a washed up celebrity on a defunct talk show.

I don't care at all what she thinks. What I do find concerning is that this debacle has revealed how ignorant people are about the Holocaust and who Jews are.

If Jews can't come to an agreement on who is Jewish (as evidence by this long discussion thread), it should come to no surprise that non-Jews don't know "who Jews are."

Nonsense. The presence of disagreement among Jews (which is a proud Jewish tradition - “two Jews, three opinions”) is no reason to be ignorant of history. It is factual that the Holocaust was about the genocide of Jews as a race.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares what she thinks? She’s a washed up celebrity on a defunct talk show.

I don't care at all what she thinks. What I do find concerning is that this debacle has revealed how ignorant people are about the Holocaust and who Jews are.

If Jews can't come to an agreement on who is Jewish (as evidence by this long discussion thread), it should come to no surprise that non-Jews don't know "who Jews are."

Nonsense. The presence of disagreement among Jews (which is a proud Jewish tradition - “two Jews, three opinions”) is no reason to be ignorant of history. It is factual that the Holocaust was about the genocide of Jews as a race.

It is “factual that the Holocaust was about the genocide of Jews as a race” — as Nazis defined “race”. It’s also factual that many people, including many Jews have very different definitions of “race” vs the one that the Nazi’s used.