Religion. Discuss ( or should that be argue )

If you're being serious here goes...

Simply put the argument runs along these lines:

• Jews are a race.
  
• They maintain their 'race' through selective breeding.
  
• Different races have different characteristics.
  
• The characteristics that Jewish people possess are negative / inferior.
  
  

If you follow this line of Anti-S, there are two main issues;

1. If Jewish people mix with non-Jews then it will have a negative impact on non-Jews via a supposed infection of the non-Jewish bloodline. However, people also tend to extend this to socially mixing, which isn't logical but follows the idea/theme of infection.

2. The selective/internal breeding makes it all the more necessary for non-Jews to establish a strong racial identity, in the same way Jews do.

This whole view is born out of pseudo-Darwinism-ish logic. It is premised first and foremost on the idea that Jews are in themselves a separate race. I think an Isrealie (history?) academic has recently done a very thorough study discrediting the idea of a 'Jewish Race' or even cognisant lineage stretching back to biblical times (the last bit has upset quite a few Isrealie politicians for obvious reason).

The point about it being different from earlier anti-S is that it is concerned specifically with race and *not *religion.

It seems fucking ridiculous to have to put this, but I will for the sake of morons:
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I AM NOT AN ANTI-SEMITE. I AM EXPLAINING THE ARGUMENT FOR SOMEONE WHO SEEMED TO EXPRESS AN INTEREST**

That argument does not have a basis in science. That argument has a basis in prejudice which is justified by a pseudo-scientific explanation. I appreciate that what you originally wrote was just clumsy, and you're not really an anti-semite, but please be a bit more careful with what you're saying. And I might be extrapolating a bit much here but this is one of the things I think is often a problem with those who talk about how 'spirituality' is ok but 'religion' isnt.

Incidentally, back in the early 20th century, Eugenics was nothing like the dirty word it was post WW2. Most intellectuals believed it would be used by governments without a murmur.