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The HuffPo staff is not 95% white, by any stretch of imagination or categorization. Only if Ashkenazi are a subset of "white".



1. "Ashkenazi are…"? 'Ashkenazim' is the plural; 'Ashkenazi' is singular.

2. Everyone except Christian Identity white nationalists considers Ashkenazim white. DNA lineage studies strongly agree. The majority of Ashkenazi DNA is Polish and German followed by Italian.


In discussions involving racism, "white" means "white skin". Racism is usually about how people look, not genetics.


Racism is about the groups people are placed in by societal perceptions, in which looks are a major but not the sole factor.


Sure, and everyone besides hard core white supremacists considers Ashkenazim to be white. I've hung out with plenty of blatant racists who treated me, as a Jew, as part of their in-group.


Which is not to say that Ashkenazi Jews are not typically considered "white" in mainstream American culture.


http://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-europea...

> The genetics suggest many of the founding Ashkenazi women were actually converts from local European populations.

Okay, even if they were over-represented in Ashkenazim, where were all the Latinos and blacks? 30% should be one of those two groups if you wanted to be proportionate to the US population, but it was definitely way lower than 30%(again, by visual inspection only).


In some contexts, Ashkenazi have been considered white.

Not that I'd argue for that.




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