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If it's a point of cultural pride, no. If it's a detached observation of racial intellectual superiority, yes.


I don't think a distinction exists as black and white as you're pretending. And in fact I think that your comment sounding so reasonable is partly to your usage of tendentious language:

You say that "cultural pride" is ok. Who can disagree, cultural pride sounds like a positive thing. But what is cultural pride exactly? In my experience, people who express pride in some attribute of a group that they're included in, only do so because other groups exist that don't have those attributes. So having "pride" and "feeling superior" are really the same thing.

Yes, I think that Jewish people who take pride in "look at how many Jews did X" are extremely sus.


You just read a comment that drew a distinction between racial supremacist claims and other claims and your rebuttal was that both kinds of claims are racial supremacist claims. Not interesting.


> your rebuttal was that both kinds of claims are racial supremacist claims

I said nothing about anything being racial or not. Perhaps you found it not interesting because you didn't pay attention to it and instead read into it what you already expected the rebuttal to be.




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