Ultimately you're right that there's no way not to get tied in knots about this because race isn't a rational subject.
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Replying to @ChrisRywalt @nberlat
It's touchy bc Judaism is in fact a religion. Ivanka is unambiguously as white as her parents and is also Jewish
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It was the Nazis who pushed a purely racial definition of Judaism -- they took ethnically Jewish converts to Christianity
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And conversely did not take converts to Judaism
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"Mr. Dussel" (Hans Peffer) from Anne Frank's diary was married to a Christian woman who converted to Judaism
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They were forcibly separated during the occupation, the Nazis didn't recognize such marriages as legal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ChrisRywalt
Yep. There were people who supported the Nazis who later got persecuted because they had Jewish ancestor.
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Replying to @nberlat @ChrisRywalt
Maus with its character of the old German man who's a Schroedinger's cat
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(I didn't realize that pun until just now)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat
I just read Maus recently and I'm struggling to remember
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One of the prisoners (depicted as a mouse) in the 1st camp Vladek is held at claims it's all a mistake
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He's a pureblood German, he's a Christian, he fought for the Kaiser in the last war
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And he was set up as having Jewish ancestry by an enemy over a petty squabble
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