re: #129 Decatur Deb

Until the Obama victory brought on the Racist Renaissance, I couldn’t imagine anyone from the ME not being considered “white”.

Well, racists don’t like to consider them white, because, you know, ARABS, and multiculti twit types (I believe in multiculturalism, but not stupid multiculturalism) find a way to define out of whiteness anyone who has, you know, a cool exotic culture or is oppressed.

Of course, I fall on the hilarious diving line whereby some people will insist that Ashkenazim are ‘white’, and Mizrahim are ‘not’, even if we look exactly the same. Then there’s the weird tendency on some people’s part to define Latin American Jews, even if Ashkenazi as ‘people of color’, hence, my cousins in Argentina are, and I’m not.

And then you get people like Kay, who describe the Knesset as ‘pasty white’.

It’s not easy being a Semite!!