Miscegenation
This Yom Kippur I was offered an argument in favour of ‘miscegenation’ ie marrying out, by a nice boy who had already done so. Now for some unfortunate reason he’d been reading the chabad website, which advises that he who marries out is doing Hitler’s work. This could not possibly be the case he told me because Hitler would’ve hated miscegenation more than anything else. According to Hitler’s rules although one tainted by the blood of a Jewish grandparent is considered Jewish enough to be gassed, the effect of a single Jewish great-grandparent is negligible.
Fairly perceptive a system of classification in a way: someone who has a Jewish grandparent will often specify this when asked “Are you Jewish?”; someone with a great-grandparent probably wouldn’t even know. By the fourth generation any Jewish influence (negligible even in the bacon-guzzling, beer-swilling and safely baptised third generation) is well and truly wiped out. To deny that in begetting an ‘ambiguously Jewish’ child (one classed as Jewish by the Reform movement only), and to bring him up without any real sense of being Jewish, ends in a fourth generation of banal bacon-guzzers is deluded in the extreme.
One needs only the brainpower to stretch the imagination beyond the second or third generation to apprehend that the ‘miscengeation’ being lauded here is in fact deadly for the chain of tradition - masorah - which it obliaterates. The term ‘miscegenation’ is cleverly chosen, because those who have opposed true miscegenation have often done so in flatly racist terms expressing fear that ‘pure’ genes will be polluted. The real problem reasonable people express when they oppose marrying out is not one of genotype, but of the cutting off of the chain of masorah, and the death of a religious tradition far superior to the wet anglicanism of our little island. So, nice try applying the term ‘miscegenation’, but anyone with any sense will realise this (mis)use to be an unsophisticated attempt to appeal to our instinctive dislike of racism, and to a currenty hegemonic left-wing orthodoxy that also renders supporting ‘palestine’ the default position.