2007-10-06 07:41:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The people that call Jews a species are racists. They are calling them that because they do not believe that Jews are human, that they are lower than humans. Its a form of an insult.
Race:
–noun
1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
2. a population so related.
2007-10-06 07:51:58 · answer #1 · answered by Tripper 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agree with Punch. They've been referred to as a race, as opposed to a religious group, which has some truth to it; there are agnostic Jews, and atheist Jews, for example. Species is a term used to define different kinds of animals, although that's not as cut and dried as I thought. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/. Anyway, I'm over 50 and never heard Jews referred to as species, so I'm gonna guess you meant 'race' or the person you heard say that was mistaken.
2007-10-06 15:28:04 · answer #2 · answered by Buffalo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they're ignorant or racist - or both.
Humans are a species. Jews, like Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and Zoroastrians, are humans.
2007-10-06 14:44:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have heard them referred to as a race, but never a "species".
2007-10-06 14:43:42 · answer #4 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are of the human species like everyone.
What kind of a stupid question is that?
2007-10-06 14:44:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Such things are obviously crass and xenophobic, but I have to say that the various groups who make a point of keeping themselves isolated -in whatever way - have only themselves to blame if the mass of people treat them as 'other'.
CD
2007-10-06 14:52:32 · answer #6 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a Nazi thing: Hitler said in Mein Kampf "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human."
Nazi propaganda portrayed Jews as being descendants of rodents rather than ape-like creatures.
2007-10-06 14:45:15 · answer #7 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Never heard this before. I think it could have been said by a certain group of people who ran Germany a while back.
2007-10-06 14:46:35 · answer #8 · answered by alikij 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What people do that? I've never heard it. But I tend to avoid bigots, racists, and the terminally stupid.
2007-10-06 14:52:30 · answer #9 · answered by silverin.unwritten 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have NEVER heard that before. You must be around weird unhappy, prejudice people.
2007-10-06 15:30:53 · answer #10 · answered by Maureen S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋