(May 12, 2013 at 8:30 pm)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: Caucasian, Mongoloid, Amerind, Australoid and three distinct races in sub-Saharan Africa. There are no Jews in the list of races. Why do you post like a Nazi? Which race was the Jew Sammy Davis Jr.?Firstly, you can quit it with the Nazi crap. I'm not a Nazi, nor do I think I'm posting like one, especially seeing how I am defending the Jewish people.
Secondly, Sammy Davis Jr was not an ethnic Jew; he was a religious Jew. "Jew" can refer to either the race (the Jewish people) or to followers of the religion of Judaism.
Quote:Jews are NOT a race, period.No, some Jews belong to the Jewish race, period.
Quote:You can google races. There are other divisions. None of the divisions or listings included Jews as a race.You can also google "Jewish people" and find hundreds of links to articles including then as a race or ethnic group.
Jews are NOT a race, period.
Quote:That Jews have adopted it as their own does not change the meaning nor force anyone else to go along with their usage of it.True, I don't have to use their definition, but its the commonly accepted one, and on these forums, we follow the definitions as found in dictionaries.