Warner Robins teacher accused of threatening to kill student over comment about his Israeli flag

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WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A Warner Robins teacher is accused of threatening to behead a student after she made a comment about his Israeli flag, according to the Houston County Sheriff's Office.

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Race is the wrong word in the modern American context. Jews aren't a race in the sense of black vs white.

Jews are, however, an ethnicity - much like how you can be ethnically Navaho or ethnically Basque. It's a matter of being part of a community of people with a shared culture and ancestry. And yes, beta Israel and Ashkenazim are both ethnically Jewish.

Jews aren’t a race in the sense of black vs white.

That's really weird, Clyde... considering that it's the only understanding of "race" we have here in our fundamentally white supremacist society.

Do tell... what does the KKK and the neonazis think of your (supposedly) "nuanced" take on pseudo-scientific "race science?"

Race used to be commonly used as a synonym of ethnicity - it isn't rare to see references to the German race, the Celtic race, Greek race, etc.

Oh... so dividing people into "races" using the most arbitrary characteristics is a recent thing?

You don't say.