Ahead of NY elections.. "free stuff" Islamo-Marxist Mamdani: 70% are non-White, 10% are Muslim.

Some 70% are non-White 57% are Christians some 10% are Muslim (immigrant or children of (Arabs, Pakistanis/Bangla), etc.,

Thanks for the clarification. But all good clarifications lead to more questions.

The categorization of Jews is a classic case of careless conflation of biological race with culture, language, religion, and country/region of origin.

This was compounded by the insistence of Jews in the diaspora that they were a people set apart. And then there are the complications of Askenazi and Sephardic Jews.

This had a long head start in antiquity into the early modern period. Then came the Age of Imperialism, when most of the world was disposed at the whim of Europeans. This probably reached its apogee with the often smug late Victorians with their “the WOGS begin at Calais” joke. That wasn’t entirely serios, but there was substantial prejudice against some European groups. Culture and race were carelessly mingled.

When I was young, it was common to describe the U.S. population as 85 percent white, 12 percent black, and three percent “other.” Others included Jews, Native Americans, Hispanics, people from the Levant, East and South Asians, etc.

We bumped along, not always well. We were making progress. Then came Hitler and the anti-Semitic madness. We ended that and were making dramatic progress, at least in the U.S. Then the left went into the identity politics cesspool, and the left has fetishized race to a terminally malignant degree.

Without clearly defining its terms. The woke left really needs its own Nuremburg Laws. But they won’t go there because the real program is the seizure of power, with race used as an ad hoc smokescreen for looting.

I don’t believe the U.S. Census ever counted Jews, Middle Easterners, etc., as “other”. That category was used for American Indians (including Eskimos), native Hawaiians and other Polynesians, East and South Asians, and Latin Americans of mixed race, mestizos. From a visual standpoints, the Jewish immigrants did not look very different from Lebanese, Armenians, Greeks, and southern Italians. The movie industry used Italians and Jews interchangeably. For instance, in the Godfather movies, an Italian American actor was used to play the “Bugsy Siegel” character, and a Jewish actor was used to play one of the Godfather’s sons. You will find people who could pass as Northern or Central European in these groups, e.g. Richard Crenna, an Italian American who usually played roles of men of British, Irish, or German ancestry or William Shatner, of Eastern European Jewish origin, via Canada, who played similar “Anglo” characters. On the other hand, George Raft, a German American of a more brunet appearance, often played roles as Italian American gangsters.

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