Sunday, June 11, 2017

Ashkenonsense

I give up.
 Folks, there is already an established sociological term for the weird place position Ashkenazi Jews hold in American race relations. That term is "Ethnic Whites". It includes other groups, such as the Roma (aka "Gypsies", which by the way is a racial slur).
And I know, I know-- there are a whole heaping lot of very good people just starting learn about race in America since BLM and Pantsuit Nation who cannot be expected to know these terms. (Except for everybody old enough to remember, we used to routinely specify WASP instead of just saying "white".)
BUT-- the fact that the people being paid to write up their opinions on this matter aren't familiar with the term?
Is just plain *embarrassing.*
Irrelevant of the position they are presenting or how many cherry-picked historical facts they trot out, it means their interest in what race is and how it works is narrow, shallow, and gadawful johnny-come-lately.

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