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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh? Judaism is not a race, it’s a religion. They (we) were targeted for being a minority religion. 
Race is a social contract and so what race means in a particular time and country will be different. The Nazis thought they were the Aryan race, which was defined to exclude Jews.  [/quote]

Social Construct not social contract [/quote]

To the PP quoted, Jews were not targeted for being a minority religion. If that were true, non-practicing Jews would have been spared. If that were true, Jews who converted to Christianity would have been spared. If that were true, NUNS with Jewish ancestry would have been spared. But those people were all among those killed. The genocide against Jews had NOTHING to do with religion. It was entirely about race.

As for now, well, the vast majority of Jews do not practice Judaism in any meaningful way. Yet most of those people still call themselves Jews. Why is that? Lapsed Catholics do not call themselves Catholics. Perhaps "race" is not the right word. "Tribe" might be more accurate. But Judaism is not only a religion, and never has been. I would point out that the Jewish people were persecuted long before they adopted the Jewish religion. When the Jews were run out of Egypt, they had not yet found the Jewish faith. That happened later. There is overlap between Jews and those who practice the Jewish faith, but they are not the same thing. Replace the word "Jew" with "Hebrew" or "Judean" and it's less hard to understand. [/quote]

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