Bernie is Jewish. Please don't minimize his minority status by calling him "another white person"
Only 1.4% if the US is Jewish.
Posters here on DU even start OPs saying "Can we really elect a Jewish President"?
And yet I am told that being Jewish does NOT make me a minority by some.
Do the people who say that know what it is like to not be allowed into certain organizations? Do they know what it is like to have swastikas written on your personal possessions? Do they have family members who were killed in living memory because of their ethnicity?
Bernie IS a minority if the term has any meaning.
Please don't minimize the experience of Jews in this country or pretend that anti-Semitism and our tiny numbers doesn't qualify us to speak from the POV of a minority.
Jews have lived it and worked with POC and other minorities because it is something they know experientially.
Thanks.
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It's a good point.
Especially as they #FeelTheBern
I do also agree with what Bonobo wrote as well as what you said 
Bernie Sanders is going to be the next POTUS
The deliberate obtuseness of some around here is amazing. Metallic hydrogen has nothing on their denseness.
to become rife once the primary gets truly under way.
Am afraid I won't be disappointed.
Now double WOW!
So many funny people on DU!
If so, what happens when you break the chain?
I am challenging your rankings.
Married women take on status from their husbands, and gain more status through motherhood. This raises her social ranking. "Never-Marrieds" (what society used to call "old maids"
and Divorced women lose status, so there might be room for debate there.
I am not talking about Hillary Clinton in my title line, but I could be...couldn't I?
Always got your back.
All this "is a Jew electable?" crap makes my blood boil. We had a black president with a Muslim middle name. Bernie will be fine
Can't believe it's 2015 and this is still an issue 
Nobody likes a turncoat. Except the right-winger who thought it was hilarious when he bad mouthed us.
Unlike Bernie who is easy to like
There are DOZENS of threads in that vein ... I'm not going to spend the evening cutting and pasting when you can easily get the material with a DU search. Now, get busy if you really want the info, and stop acting like a disruptor by questioning my veracity. Anyone who was here back then remembers this.
Not sure what your last sentence is on about but it sounds like you're trying, and failing to taunt me. Your incivility is noted.
Why aren't YOU in bed, now? Maybe you should attend to that beam in your eye, eh? You sound like you're up way past YOUR bedtime...
and I will leave it at that...
Astounding....
I am so bad...please...
Tell your friends!
Also, if you have several hours to kill, there are some "History of the Jews in America" films on YouTube. They are very well done and quite informative. Fortunately, I have a husband who was able to get it to play on our TV...I just can't look at a video on the internet for 2 hours straight...not even porn!
But it seems to me that a good many DUers feel that support for one candidate must somehow be a slam against another.
It's like they doth protest too much sometimes, but I can't figure out why. Our pool of candidates thus far is pretty freakin' amazing.
It's absolute silliness for people to hobble Democratic momentum with, in this thread's case, "my candidate is more a minority than your candidate!" But perhaps they accuse you of that because it's what they themselves would do...?
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One thing DU has taught me is to choose my words very carefully indeed.
These folks are MORE than happy to tell you what you REALLY meant in your post. 
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rocktivity
does not overcome being latino or woman. I stopped right there. I really do not want to be truly really, nastily depressed to night
Thanks... I think.
By many Christians...who don't see them as Christians at all. Let's not kid ourselves. Even polls suggest more Americans are less likely to vote for a Mormon than a Jew.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155285/atheists-muslims-bias-presidential-candidates.aspx
No fucking way. 
Dude.
It's very appreciated.
I'm not sure why some want to make this an issue.
It's DU.
I have been told my being gay isn't as important as other issues. So, if they can do it to gay persons, you better believe (no pun intended) they will do it to Jews.
I know we were at odds over one thread in particular, but I think it came down to how it was worded. I believe, with all sincerity, if Sanders is the democratic candidate, anti-Semitism will not be shy and rear its ugly head. I don't really care about the right; it is to be expected. Where my concerns lie when it rises in the left, what will happen to his candidacy? You have to have had this thought too given how long you have been a member here and the number of other sites referenced here. I personally feel too many people really don't understand anti-Semitism; FFS, some people can't even define it correctly! So, it isn't really surprising when negative things about Jews crop up and are believed. I have seen Sanders, YES SANDERS, accused of being a dual-citizen of Israel. Let me repeat...SANDERS. This will come up should he seal the nomination for our party. More than a few are pretending, as seen in this very thread, that his religion/ethnicity won't matter....BULLSHIT...it certainly will come into play; how much so, that I don't know.
Many bigotries are born out of "the unknown" and "unfamiliar." That isn't a big surprise, nor should it be a shocking revelation, but it lends itself to a point I have and that is many people don't even know a Jewish person. I am not talking about seeing one on TV or in the movies (though that is where more than a few seem to get their information), or casually glancing upon one. I am talking about actually knowing someone who is Jewish. You pointed out our numbers in the US; there aren't many of us. In my state, there are about 4600 out of 3.9 million residents, hell, there are only 1.5 million more Jews than there are people in the state of Oklahoma! There just aren't many of us out here. I have lived here for almost 8 years (moved away, then back), for some, I was the first Jew they ever knowingly met! This is the 21st century! In the 8 years I have been here, I have yet to meet another Jew in this town (40K). My point? There are many people blathering on about Jews yet have never even met one. They don't see us as people, only stories.
I don't know what is in store, but to pretend anti-Semitism won't coming creeping around is naïve, stupid, ignorant, and/or bigoted to think. I am glad you have made that clear, because, quite frankly, I was wondering if it would be made visible that some do minimize our experiences and the bigotry used against us!
I don't even know if you saw my post there. No worries. We're good. Can't shake me that easily! 
And recognize what is in the heart.
(And who supplies the offerings!)
Thanks again!
This is very important knowledge.
Like your avatar, by the way. She remains a friend, and is one who might have been our first woman president if not for Jan. 8........
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Great photo!!! I have so much admiration and respect for Gabby Giffords.
I support Gabby and Mark's "Americans for Responsible Solutions" organization. That tragedy hit me hard because I have deep lasting ties to AZ. I love that state. I sobbed my eyes out on that horrible day.
I do have strong ties to Gabby. We had just celebrated New Year's together and had planned to meet up for dinner in Washington when I got there around January 14th. I flew from New York to Dallas on the 8th. It hadn't yet happened when I took off. In the taxi from DFW to the house, I turned on the laptop and saw the news. I was phoning and texting like mad to our mutual friends, but at that point no one knew any more than anyone else.
I didn't see her for nearly two years after she was shot, and didn't know if she would still recognize me when we next met. But she let out a squeal of delight when she saw me and reached for me with her good arm, and that erased all doubts in less than a second.
I am a big supporter of ARS, too, by the way
their foreheads so that they are more recognizable to bigots, and therefore justify and prove to you the reality of Anti-Semitism and homophobia?
... I had a hope that you would say, "Yes; I am interested; please show me how the world looks through your particular eyes." And that an exchange of info would result and you might be willing to learn something new. (Who knows; you might turn out to have experiences that I could learn from, too.)
You seem more interested in digging yourself into your little fortress and reinforcing the walls so you can keep rethinking the thoughts you are already convinced of, with no questions or self-doubt allowed to penetrate.
Okay. That's human nature and it's your right. Have a nice evening.
