• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    FYI

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4301023/ says that Jewishness isnt a race. There is no “Jewish” gene.

    Jews are not a biological race, but rather an ethnoreligious group and a people with shared ancestral, cultural and religious roots.
    https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/are-jews-a-race/

    They are in essence, simply an ethnic group. The are an ethnic group without strong racial characteristics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicity

    So you can leave the word “race” out of this. Its essentially a club at this point.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Ethnicity is the correct word here.

      That said discrimination on the basis of ethnicity is still called Racism and believing in one’s ethnic superiority and right to oppress those of other ethnicities is still Supremacism, and growing up in an environment where you’re treated better and assumed you are an inherently better person with better morals because of your ethnicity increases the likelihood of you becoming a Racist and even a Supremacist, which is the point I’m making.