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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously the author means White Christian people because Jewish people, even white ones, have absolutely no problem discussing racism.  We experience it regularly -- some of us daily.  We are acutely aware of racism against us based on nothing but our DNA for many of us who do not consider ourselves religiously Jewish, but just had one grandparent who was Jewish and so our family was sent off to death camps.  And because of our own experience with racism, we are able to talk about it when we see it happening to other peoples, too.  I do understand how White Christian people may have this problem, but White Jewish, White Muslim, White ____[Add minority status here] does not have this problem.  We experience it firsthand. [/quote]

My Jewish relatives are the most anti-Black people I know. I do not attribute that to them being Jewish, to make a blanket statement that all members of a religious persuasion are racist or not is beyond small-minded. You are really weird, frankly.[/quote]

The most homophobic people I know are all black. But that's not the point.  Your relatives are comfortable discussing racism, even if they are anti-black.  Historically, though, Jewish people were the first people to join the civil rights movement and the most outspoken.  And with the BLM movement, they are the most outspoken.  They see, discuss, and know racism.

But maybe heated Jews aren't white.  My DNA test says I'm from Ashkanezi which is modern day Turkey so maybe I should click Arab and that's the reason. But whatever the reason, I've experienced racism that would make your head spin -- recently I was told that Jews are not American (Jews have been in the US for 400 years) because Christmas is American.[/quote]

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