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I'm a second generation Jew.

>To pretend otherwise is to feign ignorance.

I wasn't pretending otherwise. You're making a big assumption about my intent.

Edit: Trumps comments about the judge were overt racism.

I didn't mean to attack you specifically, but a lot of times these debates split fine hairs over truisms like "Mexican is not a race", "Islam is not a race", etc., as if bigotry is always well-informed on taxonomy and anthropology. So while pointing out conservative Indian-Americans such as Haley, Pai, Jindal, Ponnuru, were born in the U.S. is true, it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.

>it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.

I totally agree.

>Edit: Trumps comments about the judge were overt racism.

How were those comments any different than the comments about the white male judge in the Stanford swimmer sexual assault case? Or how about comments regarding the racial makeup of a jury? The fact is that humans do bring personal biases into the legal system. It doesn't seem like the political press is holding everyone to the same standards.

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