# Jews are no better or worse than anybody else.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anybody-else/104513>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 19, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anybody-else/104513 "2002-04-19T13:40:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![shawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@shawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shawa)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anybody-else/104513/21 "2002-04-22T01:39:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by hajario \*  
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> This notion of “superiority” is not part of the doctrine and simply doesn’t exist except in the minds of a very few racists.
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> Haj \*\*

OK, I grew up as a reform Jew as well. I pretty much resisted religious education. I’m just relating my impressions of what I took in. I don’t think I said anything racist.

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anybody-else/104513/22 "2002-04-22T01:47:49Z")

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> _Originally posted by hajario_
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> > \*Originally posted by shawa \*  
> > \*\*Well I did always wonder about the Chosen People thing. That always sounded a little arrogant to me. \*\*
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> That’s because you very clearly don’t understand the concept. “Chosen” doesn’t mean superior, it means chosen to follow the Laws of God. It means different, not better. It means that the Jews have a burden that others don’t.

[GOD NAMES NEXT “CHOSEN PEOPLE”; IT’S JEWS AGAIN  
“Oh Shit,” Say Jews](http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/chosen.shtml)

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jews-are-no-better-or-worse-than-anybody-else/104513/23 "2002-04-22T02:42:36Z")

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> \*Originally posted by shawa \*  
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> OK, I grew up as a reform Jew as well. I pretty much resisted religious education. I’m just relating my impressions of what I took in. I don’t think I said anything racist. \*\*

Who ever said that you were a racist? If you felt that what you said was true, you would, in my opinion, hold a racist belief. You don’t think that it’s true which puts you in the mainstream.

Haj

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