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qazplm135

(7,611 posts)
52. yeah no
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 08:19 PM
Dec 2018

first of all Judaism is BOTH a religion AND an ethnicity.

"Jews are an ethnoreligious group, meaning that Jewish identity is both ethnic and religious, or for some, only one of the two. Most Jews share a common national origin in the ancient nation of Judea (which is where the word “Jew” derives from). This has been the conclusion of the majority of DNA studies. Of course Jews have been mixed a lot with various other populations, but a substantial portion of their ancestry is nevertheless Levantine Judean."

Recognizing that Hitler attacked them for the latter and for HIS own personal reasons does not make me anti-Semitic.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/why-did-adolf-hitler-hate-the-jews-1.5088390

I trust you will believe an Israeli source, yes?
"In Hitler’s mind, all the groups that he saw as foiling Germany – Bolsheviks, socialists, social democrats – became identified with Jews, because indeed, Jews were so prominently represented among each of them. His political theories blended with increasingly technical racial theories that imagined the Jews, along with other groups like Slavs and Gypsies, as biologically inferior to Aryans, the white northern European race that pure Germans were presumed to belong to."

And definition of a pogrom?

"po·grom
/ˈpōɡrəm,pəˈɡräm/
noun
noun: pogrom; plural noun: pogroms

an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe."


"Definition of pogrom
(Entry 1 of 2)
: an organized massacre of helpless people specifically : such a massacre of Jews"


"In many Russian pogroms in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the mob attacked Jews — burning their homes and synagogues. Thousands of Jews were killed during these attacks, and many more fled them by emigrating to other countries, including the United States. Pogroms against Jews occurred in countries other than Russia, including Argentina, Romania, Poland, and Libya. Other ethnic groups, including Armenians, were also the target of pogroms in the early twentieth century."

"organized killing of a large group of people, esp. Jews, because of their religion or race"

So stop embarrassing yourself, and stop calling another poster a fucking anti-Semite because of your own historical ignorance.

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Someone beat you to this... True Dough Dec 2018 #1
I wondered who would be the first. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #2
John Lennon was a genius in his own right. MineralMan Dec 2018 #6
+1 LongtimeAZDem Dec 2018 #27
Yeah, probably best not to have gone there Major Nikon Dec 2018 #65
Yes. If your argument is refuted in a Wikipedia article, MineralMan Dec 2018 #71
Oh, the angry atheist meme Lordquinton Dec 2018 #72
No, Lennon was obviously an angry man guillaumeb Dec 2018 #79
What's the issue? Lordquinton Dec 2018 #81
I gave my opinion as to my favorite of the Beatles. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #82
And you brought up the angry atheist trope Lordquinton Dec 2018 #83
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I asked the questions of the readers. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #17
It's simple etiquette to answer your own thought questions marylandblue Dec 2018 #24
This is a common pattern here. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #43
No, you don't understand this one at all, since I did reply marylandblue Dec 2018 #45
You replied with non-answers. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #48
You didn't like my answer. I understand. marylandblue Dec 2018 #51
No faith or religion? thbobby Dec 2018 #4
you don't think slavery qazplm135 Dec 2018 #33
Since crusades and pogroms are religious in nature, I think we would not have those particular forms marylandblue Dec 2018 #35
they are religious in nature in the sense that qazplm135 Dec 2018 #36
Whataboutism and illogic. marylandblue Dec 2018 #37
Speaking of Stalin: guillaumeb Dec 2018 #44
wait a minute qazplm135 Dec 2018 #47
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yeah no qazplm135 Dec 2018 #52
"...first of all Judaism is BOTH a religion AND an ethnicity." Adsos Letter Dec 2018 #53
Agree except qazplm135 Dec 2018 #70
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Not here, though. MineralMan Dec 2018 #8
Like this derivative one? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #15
You reap what you sow, Billy. Act_of_Reparation Dec 2018 #73
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HAHAHAHAHA! You are changing the topic mid-conversation! HAHAHA! DetlefK Dec 2018 #22
So we would have to press the reset button? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #78
re DetlefK Dec 2018 #84
I disagree. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #86
I said "less groupthink", not "no groupthink". DetlefK Dec 2018 #88
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In actual history... DetlefK Dec 2018 #94
I would not and have never denied the role that religion played. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #95
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the irrational, the impulsive, matters of emotion and instinct qazplm135 Dec 2018 #34
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