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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not prepared to be the kind of asshole to condemn a whole race of people. The majority of Germans supported Hitler and then the war ended and they've gotten a lot fucking better.

I'd be happy to accept any Isrealis that are willing to abandon ship.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

not a race. fuck that racist bullshit.

if they already left; vet their shit, make sure they're not still affiliated, and sure. dont hold the shit hole they were born in against them. but starting now, when they're just afraid? nah. main lesson from world war 2 was we didn't kill enough Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

However you want to group or define Isreali citizens you are making a too broad generalization.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't really care? they have been unwilling to stop for longer than I have been alive. they've been offered the moon,and turned it down, because they prefer genocide. they haven't stopped. they haven't had substantial internal strife or attempted revolutions or internal assassinations of particularly warmongery leaders.

their soldiers literally sing while they do atrocities, their prime minister says it, their citizens say it, their children say it.

Not a single joule of energy should be wasted attempting to preserve "Israeli" life. not ever. to do otherwise would be an insult to their victims. stopping this genocide and world war three must come first.

I dunno, maybe you think 1 genocidal pedophile life is worth global thermonuclear war. I guess agree to disagree?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So you're saying we need a Final Solution to this Jewish Problem?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call it the the genocidal problem. The issues isn't with Jews in general, just people who are carrying out and supporting the genocide. I would lump Biden in with them as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh absolutely Joe needs to go. as do the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying all Jews are Israeli?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying all Israelis are Jews?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Alright cool, cool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

not a Jewish problem. a Nazi problem. nothing makes Hezbollah look good quite like hebarrah does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you saying theres a way to stop world war 3 without glassing that shit hole?

and stop saying Israelis are Jews. they're not. they once rationalized an internal purge by saying 'if you kill other Jews for political reasons, youre out' to kill other Jews for political reasons, then did the whole white supremacist sterilizing of Ethiopian Jews. they are not. they do not count. and even if they did, Jewish communities ive spoken to feel, at best, mildly embarrassed by them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jews are an ethnic group, culture, and religion, but not a race. It's a common enough misconception spread via the media. Also any given Jew is not necessarily all three.

The lesson from World War II is that war can only delay the spread of an idea, but not destroy it. Ideas have to be fought with other ideas. Killing Nazis only bought us time to think of better ideas, spread them, and deradicalize people. Thanks to conservative propaganda networks and social media, we're on the verge of a fascist takeover. We are in an information race against fascists. The fascists are turning the US into a christofascist dictatorship, by controlling the narrative and driving the news cycle, not by killing anyone. We have to beat them in this race to stop them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (25 children)

"Race" has no biological definition. Star Wars fans can be a race if you want them to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Race is a well documented biological fact actually. It's not subject to political interpretation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737365/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

From your source:

Humans have much genetic diversity, but the vast majority of this diversity reflects individual uniqueness and not race.

And

The question of the existence of human “races” now becomes the question of the existence of human subspecies.

... One definition regards races as geographically circumscribed populations within a species that have sharp boundaries that separate them from the remainder of the species (Smith, Chiszar, & Montanucci, 1997).

... A second definition defines races as distinct evolutionary lineages within a species. An evolutionary lineage is a population of organisms characterized by a continuous line of descent such that the individuals in the population at any given time are connected by ancestor/descendent relationships.

And

It is critical to note that genetic differentiation alone is insufficient to define a subspecies or race under either of these definitions of race.

You seem to have linked something that argues and shows the opposite of what you intended there, bud.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By Alan Templeton.

According to Templeton's research, perceived differences in races are more related to cultural perceptions and biases than any underlying genetic reality.[5] For example, Templeton's statistical analysis of the human genome shows that much greater genetic diversity exists between populations of chimpanzees than humans from different parts of the world.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Templeton

Do you think maybe you're misunderstanding him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It think it's debatable about how you define Races, but it's also quite obvious that biological races exist. There are specific differences in the physical biology that separate the races, and common traits among them that identify them as part of the group. Skin color, hair type, bone structure, genetic predisposition to certain diseases, etc. Physical traits are passed from the parents to the children, and when the parents are of different races we get blending of the characteristics and so on. Some Native Americans even have different kinds of teeth than European-Caucasian descended folks do.

Basically it's not something you can choose or change, it's an immutable biological set of characteristics. I don't know what "race" the Jews in Israel are exactly but I suspect it depends a lot on the region their ancestors are from. Many of them might even be the same "race" as Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What's the race here, African or Melanesian? And if it's the same race, why are they so separated geographically?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, and you fundamentally misunderstand biology, genetics, and race.

In essence, per Robert Saplosky, race is a cultural construct, not a genetic or biological one. He has his entire Stanford lecture on human behavior including human genetics on YouTube. He also has several books explaining this. Here's a link to a summary video: https://youtu.be/YVT5iIXdjek?si=jXKvfd3fUEdQcjMx

Just because you can reactively type people into races, doesn't make race a real biological phenomenon. There are plenty of races that look like others, plenty of admixture that ruins your theories. Sickle cell anemia can exist in white people (people who appear to look white) who have black ancestry, but you wouldn't know they have either sickle cell or black ancestry from looking at them. Because race ISNT genetics. There are people within the same family who are different races, one who is lighter and one who is darker, etc. And melanin production is only one small component of the cultural cues we see as someone's race.

Again, it's not biological and no real scientist would think that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Typically when people are saying Jews are a race, they referring to the idea that Jews are not White, as in they cannot be White. Jews can be White, but they can also be Black, Native American or Hispanic. Jews are not in a racial category that excludes them from being part of these groups. That's what I was referring to when I wrote race.

That's not really the main point, I was agreeing with the person I responding to and adding some clarification. It seemed to have distracted from the issue at hand.

Killing people isn't how we stop the spread of fascism in the modern day. We need to spread information, for example, that fascism is a self-destructive ideology that will destroy hundreds of millions of lives and that the Republican Party is controlled by fascists. I think most people know that on lemmy, but there are plenty of people who will check into politics in the months leading up to the election and form their opinions then. A misconception I see on lemmy is that some people assume we can defeat fascism with guns alone. That isn't going to cut it. We have to reach more people with true information before fascists reach them with misinformation. Once a person forms an opinion they are unlikely to discard that opinion when presented with new information in the short term. That short term can easily last until the election, so these months leading up to the election are crucial. edit: capitalization

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Israeli is not the same thing as Jewish.

Many Jewish people hate Israel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Israeli is not the same thing as Jewish.

Yes, I am Jewish, but not Israeli. I assumed most people referring to Israelis as a race are referring to Jews a race. It seems weird to confuse nationality with race in the 21st century.

Many Jewish people hate Israel.

I don't hate Israel, because hating Israel is more taxing to me than it is to Israel. I think Israel is an apartheid state that's committing genocide and war crimes in Gaza, Zionism is a fascist ideology, the current Israeli government is dominated by fascists, and that the concept that we need a Jewish ethnostate in order to be safe is ridiculous. Israel needs to change radically and it needs to change as soon as possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d be willing to bet you could find one or two Israelies (Israelites?) that hate Israel too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israeli is modern inhabitants, Israelites are the ones from the old testament

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I thought one of the best lessons was that you don't deal with an aggressive and genocidal nation through appeasement.

We should be fighting against Israel, not appeasing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that was the lesson from the start. that theres one way to stop fascism and genocide both.

the lesson from the end was: you didn't kill enough fucking Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

who the fuck mentioned Jews here?

I'm talking about Israelis, cut your equivocating antisemitic bullshit. talk like that gets people killed by idiots who can't tell the difference, but know genocide is bad and Nazis dying is good.

we didn't stop Nazism because we didn't kill enough Nazis, on either side of the ocean. the fuckers who got social media in on it can be traced back to that. if we'd killed more Nazis then, we wouldn't have these problems now.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Germans during WWII actually were referring to nationality when talking about race, so that one slides believe it or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

its so much dumber than that. it kind of comes down to mystical bullshit and oh hey, that's in this one too

but theres this kapo trash tendency to draw equivalency with all Jewish people in the world and smear their crimes onto the innocent

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