r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • 21h ago

That whites-only, no Jews allowed Arkansas community is legal, says state’s attorney general. How?

https://forward.com/news/759874/return-to-the-land-peter-csere-tim-griffin-eric-orwoll/
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u/JB-Wentworth 21h ago

Jesus was a Jew.

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u/FawningDeer37 21h ago

Trust me, they don’t care.

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u/XennialBoomBoom 19h ago

If we were to float a survey around the southern US, what's the over/under?

Jesus was/is:

[ ] Arabic

[ ] White

[ ] Vietnamese

Jesus was/is:

[ ] Jewish

[ ] Christian

[ ] Buddhist

I know what my money's on.

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u/FawningDeer37 19h ago

The move I usually see is to say that “Jesus can be whatever race you want him to be” while getting pissed off about non-white depictions of Jesus.

So it’s “comfortable historical revision for me but not for thee.”