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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m happy that people choose to convert.

I’m also very proud to have been born a Jew, and I will never apologize for it, nor will I allow people to act as though Jewish ethnicity is subjective or should be put in quotations.

It is an identity that has survived multiple genocides. Those genocides were as much or more about Jewish ethnicity than they were about Judaism the religion. Hitler didn’t care whether someone was practicing the religion. He killed based on ethnicity. The existence of a Jewish ethnic identity is a big reason why many Europeans did not see Jews as white for many hundreds of years.

I can be welcoming of converts to the religion and proud of my ethnicity at the same time. [/quote]
Who is saying you shouldn't be proud of your ethnicity?
There is a difference between saying "I'm very proud to have been born a Jew," and "[Converts] are not part of the Jewish people, from an ethnic standpoint, and never can be." Just end your statement on the positive affirmation of yourself.[/quote]

When people put ethnicity in quotes, they are minimizing it as a legitimate identity.[/quote]

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