After asking various rabbinic authorities, I’ve learned that none can name a Torah book on racism. Why have none of our great rabbis bothered to write a book on this pressing issue? Why is there no sin of racism in Torah literature? If racism is so horrible, how come God, the Bible and the rabbis failed to mention it?
This goyisha made-up sin of racism has no resonance in the Torah tradition and therefore no Torah Jew — and nobody who cares about moral truth — should ever trouble himself about “racism.” It’s goyisha nonsense.
Dennis Prager writes in 2012 about same-sex marriage:
Second, if opposition to same-sex marriage is as immoral as racism, why did no great moral thinker, in all of history, ever advocate male-male or female-female marriage? Opposition to racism was advocated by every great moral thinker. Moses, for example, married a black woman, the very definition of Catholic is “universal” and therefore diverse and has always included every race, and the equality of human beings of every race was a central tenet of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other world religions. But no one – not Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Aquinas, Gandhi, not the Bible or the Koran or any other sacred text, nor even a single anti-religious secular thinker of the Enlightenment — ever advocated redefining marriage to include members of the same sex.
To argue that opposition to same-sex marriage is immoral is to argue that every moral thinker, and every religion and social movement in the history of mankind prior to the last 20 years in America and Europe was immoral. About no other issue could this be said. Every moral advance has been rooted in prior moral thinking. The anti-slavery movement was based on the Bible. Martin Luther King, Jr. was first and foremost the “Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.” and he regularly appealed to the moral authority of the scriptures when making his appeals on behalf of racial equality. Same-sex marriage is the only social movement to break entirely with the past, to create a moral ideal never before conceived. It might be right, but it might also be an example of the moral hubris of the present generation, the generation that created the self-esteem movement: After all, you need a lot of self-esteem to hold yourself morally superior to all those who preceded you.
No moral thinker in history was concerned with “racism.” The concept of “racism” did not even develop until the early part of the 20th Century. Dennis writes: “Opposition to racism was advocated by every great moral thinker.” Huh? He can’t name any chapter or verse. That Moses married a black woman does not mean he was opposed to racism. Plenty of racists have had relationships with black women, even married them when they couldn’t do better. White men in America today who are falling in socio-economic status frequently marry Latinos because they aren’t capable of landing a white woman.
Dennis writes: “equality of human beings of every race was a central tenet of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other world religions.” Huh? Dennis can’t name chapter and verse to support his assertions. The way Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other world religions have been practiced is that their practicioners were rarely in doubt that they were superior to outsiders and these religions have never been practiced in a color-blind way. In all of these religions, for instance, blacks were regarded as less intelligent and less attractive.
While upwardly mobile Mexican-Americans marry blonde Anglos, downwardly mobile white men wed Mexicans. Now, there is no doubt plenty to be said for getting hitched to a Mexican lady. They probably tend to make better mothers, homemakers, and cooks than the leggy blonde careerists who, however, are so much more in demand in Southern California. But sadly, there is a big social cost to Anglo-Hispanic marriages—which raises severe doubts about America’s ability to assimilate Latino immigrants. As pro-immigration/pro-assimilation researcher Gregory Rodriguez admits, “Surprisingly, in most homes headed by an Anglo/Latino couple, Spanish becomes the household language.”
Thus, those L.A. blue-collar whites who don’t flee to Utah will tend to assimilate genetically and culturally into Latino culture.
