{"id":54071,"date":"2014-05-01T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54071"},"modified":"2014-05-01T11:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:30:24","slug":"what-is-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54071","title":{"rendered":"Racism Is Goyisha Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get my worldview from Torah. Torah is not concerned with races and it does not recognize any such sin as &#8220;racism&#8221; and therefore Torah Jews should never concern themselves about whether or not something or someone is &#8220;racist.&#8221; &#8220;Racism&#8221; was a slur invented in the 1930s by leftists, before then it was simply regarded as good sense to prefer your own kind and to view those most different from you with skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, the most traditional a person, the more likely he is to hold views regarded as &#8220;racist.&#8221; For example, the more traditional a Jew, Chinaman, Latino, Armenian, etc, the more likely he is to have negative views of black people. The more assimilated a person, the more multi-cultural, the more concerned he is with &#8220;racism.&#8221; This modern assimilated man has weak ties to his racial, religious and national identity. The stronger a person identifies with his race, his religion and his national identity, the more likely he is to hold views that are &#8220;racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johannes Grenzfurthner: &#8220;The Oxford English Dictionary defined &#8220;racialism&#8221; as &#8220;belief in the superiority of a particular race&#8221; and gave a 1907 quote as the first recorded use.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get my worldview from Torah. Torah is not concerned with races and it does not recognize any such sin as &#8220;racism&#8221; and therefore Torah Jews should never concern themselves about whether or not something or someone is &#8220;racist.&#8221; &#8220;Racism&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I get my worldview from Torah. 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