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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by thraway2016 on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:08PM (#13395927)
The HuffPo staff is not 95% white, by any stretch of imagination or categorization. Only if Ashkenazi are a subset of "white".
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by WildUtah on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:16PM (#13396451)
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.

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by burkaman on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:19PM (#13395970)
In discussions involving racism, "white" means "white skin". Racism is usually about how people look, not genetics.
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by dragonwriter on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:20PM (#13395982)
Racism is about the groups people are placed in by societal perceptions, in which looks are a major but not the sole factor.
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by morgante on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:36AM (#13397825)
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.
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by dllthomas on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:18PM (#13396457)
Which is not to say that Ashkenazi Jews are not typically considered "white" in mainstream American culture.
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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by oh_sigh on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:16PM (#13395963)
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).

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Re:How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men by dgfgfdagasdfgfa on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:47PM (#13396095)
In some contexts, Ashkenazi have been considered white.

Not that I'd argue for that.

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