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Ca a black person understand what it is like to be a Jew? Or gay?

Can a black person understand what it is like to be a Jew? Or gay?

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ThePlayDrive said:
Is being black and gay mutually exclusive?
Is being black and Jewish mutually exclusive?

LOL
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Depends, are you talking about a religious Jew or an ethnic Jew?
 
Bodhisattva said:
Well?

If a white person cant understand what it is like to be black then a black student will never understand what the Holocaust was like... for example.
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The only way to know how it is to be someone else is to actually live their entire life, which is impossible.

The races/sexual orientations/religions that they can be associated with are irrelevant.
 
Van Basten said:
This is a really poorly thought out question and thread.
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Yes, but we know what the point of it is, but people are being purposefully obtuse.
 
I picked no for both for this poll and the other. Of course, even in the other one I stated that it's somewhat meaningless because no one can fully understand what another person has gone through, even if they are of the same race, and grew up in the same family.
 
Absentglare said:
The only way to know how it is to be someone else is to actually live their entire life, which is impossible.

The races/sexual orientations/religions that they can be associated with are irrelevant.
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Prove tbat it is impossible to live anothef person's entire life...
 
Bodhisattva said:
Prove tbat it is impossible to live anothef person's entire life...
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Because, even if you experience the entirety of someone else's life, you still experience it through your perspective, not theirs.
 
Absentglare said:
Because, even if you experience the entirety of someone else's life, you still experience it through your perspective, not theirs.
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Alright... prove that you cant experience it from both perspectives.
 
clownboy said:
Ask this fellow:

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Isn't lenny kravitz a black jew?
 
Absentglare said:
Having two perspectives is a different experience than having only one perspective.
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Prove a person cant have two different experiences simultaneously...

I have been scared, excited and euphoric at the same time. Prove i didnt.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Prove a person cant have two different experiences simultaneously...

I have been scared, excited and euphoric at the same time. Prove i didnt.
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You can, but being both scared and excited is different than only being scared or only being excited.
 
Absentglare said:
You can, but being both scared and excited is different than only being scared or only being excited.
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Prove somebody feels ONLY one thing at a time...

This is getting comical...

:lol:
 
yes, completely, simply because there are lots of gay and Jewish black people.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Well?

If a white person cant understand what it is like to be black then a black student will never understand what the Holocaust was like... for example.
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Skipping over the problem of assuming a black person might not be one or more of those other things themselves, not on a deep, intrinsic level, no. On a basic human empathy and societal awareness level, yes. Same as white people understanding what it's like to be black.

I won't reiterate my entire post on that thread, but to bring back around a basic point, I do think people who have experienced discrimination can and do use that to help them empathize with another's situation and generally tend to have an easier time understanding it as well as it's possible to do so.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
Skipping over the problem of assuming a black person might not be one or more of those other things themselves, not on a deep, intrinsic level, no. On a basic human empathy and societal awareness level, yes. Same as white people understanding what it's like to be black.

I won't reiterate my entire post on that thread, but to bring back around a basic point, I do think people who have experienced discrimination can and do use that to help them empathize with another's situation and generally tend to have an easier time understanding it as well as it's possible to do so.
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Huh?

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SmokeAndMirrors said:
And exactly what sort of response are you expecting for a single-word reply that isn't even an actual word?
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I dont expect responses. I agree witb your second parragraph. Kinda the first but not totally.
 
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