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| Authored by: Yaacov on Monday, December 13 2004 @ 07:51 PM CST |
However, I don't believe that's enough to make them a "race."
The word racism is used to describe prejudice and hatred of groups of people based on genetics and parentage. Whether those groups are called a race or are referred to by other words such as ethnicity, tribe, etc. the word racism is still used. For example, in Rwanda, Hutus conducted a genocide against Tutsis. The hatred that lead to this is described as racist, for example by Gerald Caplan.
If you prefer to call the Jewish genetic identity an ethnicity than a race, I have no problem with that, as long as you recognise that the word racism applies to discrimination and hatred against Jews, just as it applies to discrimination and hatred against Tutsis.
If you'd prefer to argue this on the definition, here are the first three dictionary definitions of race, which are also the only definitions that are specific to subsets of humanity. Note that all of them apply to those who share a Jewish genetic heritage.
- A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
- A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
- A genealogical line; a lineage.
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"an ideology is a thought—economizing device" - Moisés Naim[ Parent ]
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