Pick an origin story for the Ashkenazim. Let's go with the Khazar replacement theory. So a white people mixed with some Middle Eastern (I guess Semitic) people, creating the Ashkenazi. This is why I don't like neat categorizations: Are these Ashkenazim white or not? To me, it's yes and no. Some % yes and some % no. As long as we're not confused about what the truth is (to the extent we can be certain about it), I don't care which definition of white you use.
I'm even kind of dodging the question of what, precisely, Middle Eastern Jews would have been if not white. But clearly we can understand there is a difference between someone from down there and someone from up there.
Jews are going to be othered now matter what. They're going to be slippery. Not that it's hard to pull a fast one on the negro. He will variously think all white people are the same and be the biggest Jew-hater since Vespasian.
Pick an origin story for the Ashkenazim. Let's go with the Khazar replacement theory. So a white people mixed with some Middle Eastern (I guess Semitic) people, creating the Ashkenazi. This is why I don't like neat categorizations: Are these Ashkenazim white or not? To me, it's yes and no. Some % yes and some % no. As long as we're not confused about what the truth is (to the extent we can be certain about it), I don't care which definition of white you use.
I'm even kind of dodging the question of what, precisely, Middle Eastern Jews would have been if not white. But clearly we can understand there is a difference between someone from down there and someone from up there.
Jews are going to be othered now matter what. They're going to be slippery. Not that it's hard to pull a fast one on the negro. He will variously think all white people are the same and be the biggest Jew-hater since Vespasian.