Anonymous wrote:I'm not a Whoopi fan (to say the least), but I don't get the outrage. I'm Jewish and don't consider myself to be a different race. That is, I'm white. That's my race. Judaism is not a race.

Do you consider Judaism a faith?

I'm not a Whoopi fan (to say the least), but I don't get the outrage. I'm Jewish and don't consider myself to be a different race. That is, I'm white. That's my race. Judaism is not a race.

Really? Suspended? Nick Cannon said worse and still on air and no suspension.

She’s got all of two weeks to totally focus on her mental and physical health.

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She’s OFFICIALLY suspended. FINALLY.

Why on earth was she suspended? My god we’re so offended by every stupid thing. This could have been a teachable moment but nooo…

Time will tell if she learned she lesson. Or not.

*HER lesson

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She’s OFFICIALLY suspended. FINALLY.

Why on earth was she suspended? My god we’re so offended by every stupid thing. This could have been a teachable moment but nooo…

Time will tell if she learned she lesson. Or not.

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She’s OFFICIALLY suspended. FINALLY.

Why on earth was she suspended? My god we’re so offended by every stupid thing. This could have been a teachable moment but nooo…

She’s OFFICIALLY suspended. FINALLY.

Anonymous wrote:I don't listen to people without eyebrows.

Her weight is blowing up.

“so y’all go fight amongst yourselves….”. what a terrible thing to say.

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Anonymous wrote:When we assess the Holocaust we have to consider the Nazi ideology that was behind it - not what people you run into today think or what the standards of America in 2022 are.

THIS x1000. Regardless of whether being Jewish is a race, the Nazis viewed it as a race. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/victims-of-the-nazi-era-nazi-racial-ideology

It was racially motivated genocide. It was about race.

Remember--race is a construct. The Nazis constructed a Jewish race just as America racism constructs a black race (see Caste by Isabel Wilkerson).

Same for Hasidism, a jew made construct in the 1800s. Is that a race different from reform or secular? Are all those different races?
North Indian, South Indian, sihk, goan. And so on.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone help me understand? One of my friends who has a Jewish background says that Jewish is not a race or ethnicity it's a religion. I told her I thought it was different, but I am not so I'll go with whatever she says. Why do some people say this? I don't understand.

It’s both and I think anyone sane acknowledges that.

See that's what I thought. But once a woman was socializing with us and referenced my friend being Jewish and she was so offended. But I am confused because her dad is Jewish but she felt like it's racist because no one can "look" Jewish. I've also heard a few others with this background say this...

I think it is kind of offensive to generally comment about people's looks. I think people also don't like it when they say - you're so exotic, what are you, etc. My DNA test says I'm Jewish so there's not really a debate that it's an ethnicity. DNA tests don't identify religion.

Your 10+ posts in your dna sample only prove the insular tribal exclusive nature of Jews. Not a new definition of race, tribe, religion, science, ethnicity, purism, etc. it just says your dna history has negligible intermixing. That doesn’t mean you invented a race out of it. Iceland dna has the same lack of mixing (and genetic defect risks), are they are “race?”

No, just a set of people not intermixing with others.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone in a clear, non-obfuscatory simply answer the question? Is Jewish a race?i

No, it’s a religion. You can practice it and convert to it. Just like Baptist, catholic, Muslim, etc.

It’s disingenuous to ignore the ethnicity element of it.

To you. Not to me.

To anyone sane - it is disingenous.

I’m cool with you thinking that.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone in a clear, non-obfuscatory simply answer the question? Is Jewish a race?i

No, it’s a religion. You can practice it and convert to it. Just like Baptist, catholic, Muslim, etc.

It’s disingenuous to ignore the ethnicity element of it.

To you. Not to me.

To anyone sane - it is disingenous.

+1, the ignorance on this thread is startling. My 23&Me DNA profile indicates it's more than a religion.

Anonymous wrote:This incident shows that Whoopi hasn't bothered to educate herself about much of the world and raises the question of why she is in a position to have any influence.

Well she's an entertainer... and a great one. That's why people ask her questions and expect to be entertained by her answers. But she's not a particularly educated person and showed herself to be pretty ignorant in this case.

But lots of celebrities have platforms to babble about things they don't understand. They do it all the time and people generally eat it up.