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Honest question, but isn't that kinda disrespectful tp Judaism? They are now Jewish, they don't believe on the Jewish beliefs, are not the hat religious?
Can we PLEASE PLEASE stop treating judaism like it’s a special religion? I can mock christians all day, every day, why the different treatment for jews?
rule of thumb. it's ok to punch upwards and laterally in comedy,
given that Christianity is basically the default state religion in most developed countries, making fun of it is sort of punching upwards.
but unless you're part of the minority, it's likely you'll say some really stupid stuff if you make fun of said minority and it'll likely sound hateful and ignorant.
and to make it clear. those politicians are zionists, they are doing it to appease their AIPAC donor. they are not Jewish and do not support jews or their communities. look how the only loud antizionist politician in the US has the support of his Jewish constituents.
yes, the reason to be sensitive about Judaism is the robust history and present of oppression Jews have experienced. It's unfortunate that Israel uses this as a basis of dismissing legitimate criticism of their crimes as anti-Semitism.
For comparison, imagine a Black ethno-state committing genocide (e.g. like in Ethiopia) and then dismissing critics as merely racists.
No sorry, being black and being jewish is not the same. You can stop being jewish if you want, you can’t stop being black lol
Man, you should be embarrassed. How can someone be so assertive and yet so ignorant? At least tell me you're 12?
According to all the worst people (Israeli Nationalist and Nazis) you can't.
Judaism is a religion, but also an ethnicity - some people are born ethnic Jews and are not able to "stop being Jewish". Some people convert to Judaism and are not ethnic Jews. You seem confused by this, maybe?
If it is really an ethnicity, what does a jew from israel, usa and poland have in common? Language, tradition, society and history are all different. Things in common? Jewish religion.
Ethnicity is also closely tied to nationalism, to a common land that shapes the shared experience of it. And if you say israel, we can close the conversation here.
Can you give me an example of ethnic jew that doesn’t follow the religion? What does it mean to be born ethnically jew?
Albert Einstein, Woody Allen, and Sigmund Freud were all ethnic Jews who were not followers of Judaism.
Are you young? I know many people IRL who are of Jewish ethnicity but are not religious, but I remember when I was younger I did not have as much awareness.
In lieu of life experience, perhaps it would be helpful to read more about Jewish identity and learn that way:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
This is so clearly anti-Semitic and bigoted, I don't have anything more to say to you.
You shouldn't think an entire race of people are inherently dishonest, it does not make sense and is hateful.
Goodbye.
I don't mean it as it because Judaism is an special religion. If someone that is not catholic or Muslim goes in a performative confession or migration to the Mecca I would think is disrespectful too.
Because the Catholic ethnostate exists with the consent of Italy lmao
I would say judaism should be seen as at least as special islam and christianity since it's an abrahamic religion and rarer than both. So if you're okay to say that neither of those are special, only then is it consistent to say that judaism is not special.
Of course, no religion is special. You can believe in any fairytale book inside your house and the place of prayer. However this is always within the legal framework of the law.
Your special book says you should steal from “non-religion-affiliated-people” because god said you are his bbf? 30 years in jail.
You're the one who kicked this off with the term "special religion."
(͡•_ ͡• ) uh?
Yes, judaism is treated like a special taboo religion that can’t be criticised. It’s not special and it should be criticised heavily.
I imagine that such people also include almost any-non-Christian religion among those that mustn't be criticized (e.g. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.), so I wouldn't really say Judaism is specifically being treated like a special taboo religion.
Bro stop it with the whataboutism.
We are talking about judaism here. These religious people are shielded and protected by media and politicians, it is taboo to criticise the jews in the west. This is wrong.
Before I do any whataboutism, I always say "if you'll excuse some whataboutism" since I don't like to hide it. But this was not whataboutism. You're talking about special treatment, and that is something which is only defined in reference to context. You can't say one religion is special and then casually reject any evidence to the contrary which makes reference to other religions. That's what special means.
FWIW, I agree with you that it should be okay to criticize any religion. But to me, this entire chain of comments has been about whether or not Judaism is actually treated differently from other religions.
You mean because Islam is the only religion which the West actively spreads discriminatory propaganda against on their mainstream media because the countries they colonize are primarily Islamic?
Which one killed 6 million Jews in Europe again?
Haha https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/380751/the-nazis-were-christians-and-adolf-hitler-was-not-an-atheist/
But forget about Hitler. Who invented Pogroms?
Whoops lost the argument time to go mask off and spout irrelevant racism.
So argumentative bro, can you enlighten us more? Or maybe you just wanted to say: “I sometimes see brown people having a different culture displaced by the colonial west power and forced to move from their country, and I don’t like it because I’m a fascist”?
*Christianity
Depends who I'm talking to, because I usually curse one of them for their religion being shitty and backward
¿Porque no los dos?