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Well, for some reason it seems common to not make a distinction between Jews ( as per the religion, like, Christians ) and Jews ( as per "race" which doesn't even make any sense ).

I bet there are a lot of nice Jewish people. I just don't like that the mainstream community of vocal Jews leans towards the Rights and Freedoms bullshit. I don't really care how many holocausts or exoduses have been visited on them. Jews aren't their own separate race - the world shouldn't act as if they are.

If I met a Jew who was like, "man, I hate people who yammer on about this crap. They should just learn to obey the laws" I'd be like, dude, sweet. And we'd be friends.

Hm. I'm curious as to who I'm facing in the first round.

Exactly.

Yet, for some reason, everyone talks about Jewish people like they're black people.

Frankly, I figure any religion that hasn't been thoroughly strained of all identity via white people is bunk. I'm not taking anything that requires more spiritualism than a tax-claimable tithe and the adherence to traditional family structures.

Judaism is a religion.

The Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group, where even people who don't follow Judaism anymore (but have hebrew ancestors) are counted as members. Though, I'll admit, that one converted into Judaism can become members of the Jewish people (i.e. Ethopian Jews.)

Somehow jew fros, long sideburns, and big noses occur because all jews share the same religion, and can't possibly be caused by an actual genetic-based ethnic background.

Man, all this talk of Rebel Scum reminds me of this time I played a Flames of War game down at the store. The scenario we played consisted entirely of tanks. We were the Nazis ( obviously ) bunkered down in some town with a few of our light tanks against a CHARGING onslaught of Russian tanks and light vehicles. Like, heavy-a** tanks that it would take us a few rounds to punch through.

Now, historically, we were overrun. The russians took many losses but their armor proved too strong.

In game terms though, a combination of cover and luck made it so that we ultimately decimated them. It was a lot of fun. I had command of half the tanks, and the guy I played with had the other half. I kept cycling my tanks through the front lints behind the cover of buildings, managing to dodge shots and laying fire down range at the obvious charging russians. Taking out their mobility, watching them get stuck in trenches and having to navigate around their wrecks - it was hilarious.

The ruskies were soooo pissed, because 80% of FoW is its historical accuracy. They always get a bit upset when the game doesn't play out the way it did in the real war. X3

Uh.

I don't care where the hell you came from. That doesn't make you Jewish, it makes you whatever middle-eastern sandpit you came from. Like Egyptians come from Egypt, etc.

If a white guy isn't allowed to take a bunch of white people off into the woods and claim they're a new race of superbeings, Jews aren't allowed to claim to be a race of God's Chosen People.

I can't just bang my girlfriend, have a kid, invent a religion, and then claim that my religion is my racial identity. Obviously people are going to look at me and say I'm a white Canadian. From there, they'd check my family history to determine my ancestry.

Who want's to "warm up" before the big tournament? KB? Fiend? Or what about Naota, the cyberpunk, if you still use him?