If the idea that Jews are a race is a Nazi idea, what did Mark Twain mean when he said that "The Jews are the only race who work wholly with their brains and never with their hands"
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Most probably he was using the definition of "race" in the context of the social construct, rather than the "biological" context that both the Nazis and 9/11 preferred.
For Twain's *actual* opinion of of Jews, it's helpful to remember that his daughter Clara married one, of whom he said "Any girl could be proud to marry him. He is a man – a real man."
Of course you have not included the full quote from his letter, most likely because your hater friends don't talk about the rest of it: "Sampson was a Jew – therefore not a fool. The Jews have the best average brain of any people in the world. The Jews are the only race who work wholly with their brains and never with their hands. There are no Jewish beggars, no Jewish tramps, no Jewish ditch diggers, hod-carriers, day laborers or followers of toilsome, mechanical trades. They are peculiarly and conspicuously the world’s intellectual aristocracy."
He was, of course, wrong in his next to last sentence as is trivially demonstrable, but it gives an idea of his overall opinion of Jews. -- if you're going to quote him, please quote everything.
For further information on Twain and the Jews, see "Stirring Times in Austria," "Concerning the Jews," and its follow-up "The Jew as Soldier."
Don't even try to quote mine from any of these, get them and read *all* of them.
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or when Netanyahu said that "If Israel had not come into existence after World War II then I am certain the Jewish race wouldn't have survived..."?
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Got a *credible* source for this quote?
In any case, as above: race has a meaning beyond the biologic, which both the Nazis and 9/11 felt / feel is the most (and only) important one.
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I'm not saying that Jews are a distinct race. Anybody can convert to Judaism but nobody is capable of converting from a Caucasian into Asian. But it's not accurate to say that the idea of Jews as a race was born of and died with Nazism.
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There are several definitions of "race," and niney's insistence that the President of France is a Jew despite being raised in the RCC indicates that he is using a different definition than most of us.
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