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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Straight up here. Not joking.  I am very ignorant in this area. I was educated in the south, didn't know a Jewish person until I was 40 years old (now over 50) I thought Jews were conidered white. I had no reason to think otherwise. I mean of course I knew the horror of the holocaust, but I always thought it was PRIMARILY about religion and Hitler's goal to create a master race.[/quote]

A master Aryan race with blonde hair and certain features which were opposite of traditional Jewish features.

Hitler wasn’t religious. The holocaust wasn’t a religious crusade.

Much like modern times, an evil person thirsty for power manipulated the masses by othering an easily identifiable minority group. [/quote]

Again seriously asking…aside from Hitler’s goal, why are the Jewish features considered not white? Or rather is there something wrong with those features being put in the same box with white people? Do Jews not want to be in the same box as white people? I seriously don’t know and I have asked these questions before on DCUM and got shut down. I have googled a lot of this and gave up because it was indeed a rabbit hole that I couldn’t commit to.

I mean clearly most white people think it’s great to be white, and in most cases it it, and they (white people) absolutely, positively, would never ever want to be anything but white. I’m black, but would never, ever want to be white, but if I could PASS for white, to get the privilege that being white sometimes hands you….hmmm maybe.

So again, because I don’t personally know many people that have identified themselves to me as Jewish, I don’t really clearly identify Jewish features. I mean see Jewish celebrities on TV and have heard people talk about “Jew fro” but that’s it. I know I must sound terribly ignorant on this, but I also don’t think this mindset would be out of the ordinary for African Americans educated in the south in 70’s about Jewish people. [/quote]

Pp, I’m not jewish but from what I learned, they were basically ostracized because they had a different culture.  They are a minority, have different cultural norms, that are probably noticeable like in food, religious practices( friday-saturday observance of sabbath) and most likely a very tight knit community because of these things that bind them together, A lot of them are also immigrants that emphasizes the difference in culture.  I’m not sure how much they mingled with other different cultures at that time, I’m sure a lot did but but my understanding is that people were much more unwelcoming to immigrants in the old times.  I’m guessing they were an easy target for hitler to unite a lot of people through their hidden racism.[/quote]

The majority of Jews in Austria and Germany were not immigrants as you claim. Many considered themselves German or Austrian before being Jewish and were highly assimilated into german Society, owning stores, banks, manufacturing as well as in the medical field, law, science (Albert Einstein) and education. Many german jews fought for Germany in WW1. While many emigrated after 1933, many did not 
believe that they would be persecuted because they were german. They lost their jobs and ability to hold their jobs in german society and then were shipped off either to concentration camps or the ghettos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany

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