The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79324   Message #1436905
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
17-Mar-05 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: A discussion - What is antisemitism? .
Subject: RE: BS: A discussion - What is antisemitism? .
Little Hawk and others. Jews look Semitic, Jews look Nordic, Jews look Indian, Jews look Chinese, Jews look Ethiopean. The fact that Jews don't look Semitic doesn't mean they aren't...at least in part. The Jewish populations often intermarried with the local inhabitants, still observing Judaism to the extent possible. Their progeny took on the racial characteristics of the indigenous population [dominent & recessive gene thing]. But in their DNA is that bugaboo Semite. As to converts, true they may not be Semitic, but they take unto themselves the burden of others anti-Semitic attitudes. What does it matter which musicians, actors, dancers, doctors, baseball players, folk singers, or bootleggers are Jewish? Do we ask which are Mormon or Lutheran? Of course we do suspect all Italians as being Mafia, right?