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If it was illegal, I think the argument would have already been made. So I'm guessing it's legal.
Canadian Clinic: No Non-Whitey Sperm for Whitey
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my anti-white bias is well-documented. they all need to be rounded up and sent back to scandanavia.
My understanding is that this same approach is used with adoptions. In other words, adoption agencies strive to match ethnicities and some insist on it. Perhaps we have a social worker or three on board who might be able to clarify.
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This brings up another question.
If two White Jewish woman wants a sperm donor, will they make sure it's from a nice Jewish boy? Do they check circumcision of the donor?
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And you would be wrong, I watched a documentary on a women who was an older parent. She was Jewish, and she wanted both the eggs and sperm that would create her children to be from Jewish people. For some faith, whether for egg or sperm does matter. It is a question of the person whether it matters or not. Don't be quick to paint every Jewish person with the same paintbrush.
I also personally know someone on another board who is mullato. For her it was important her partner also be Jewish, and that he could share the same faith with her and any children they had. The man she fell in love with an chose to marry just happened to be white because most of the jewish community is white in this country.
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they just wouldn't attempt treatment on saturday since the sperm would likely not fertilize on shabbat.
You may be okay with it, but I'm not. In much the same way, as some blacks have no problem with the 'N' word, and others do. So unless we're going to spell out the 'N' word, we shouldn't be spelling out the 'W' one. Consistency is important. And BTW, what exactly are those 'unearned privileges' whites are supposed to have enjoyed?
History is more important. (Except in bread-making, of course. In breadmaking consistency is everything.)
Jewish is a religion, a culture and an ethnicity, depending on how the person in question identifies.
You'll have converts from all over the map who are religiously Jewish, yet don't have traditionally Jewish names or "look" like the stereotypical idea of a Jewish person, and you also have people who've never attended a single service who still identify as Jewish ethnically and/or culturally. Then there's the conundrum in mixed families where you get asked if you're Jewish via your mother or your father, because it's the mother's heritage that matters most.
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Exactly. Point being my friend who is mullato and half Jewish personally felt it important to have a Jewish spouse. I certainly would if I had maintained more ties to the community, but my ties aren't as strong as her's are.
Also exactly.
You can't determine a person's background solely by the way they look. On first meeting, you don't know their history. It's ridiculous to look at a potential parent, check a box on a form, and decide they're not suited for any child because they might not match. It's a family, not drapes and couches.
This quote bugs me:
That seems very disparaging toward the women. Like single women aren't capable of making reasonable choices about the families they have.
Who the hell else should make the decision?
If everyone wanted a child that looks like them (and this is ignoring the fact that all children inherit a mixture of features from both biological parents, and may or may not closely resemble the mother. What makes having a child who shares some of your features but has a darker skin tone any different than having a child who shares your skin tone but has different hair and eye colors?), then there would be no "need" for the company's policy. People can choose to select donors who match their ethnicity if they want. They shouldn't be forced to.
Depends on the rational behind the discrimination. Jewishness can be seen as an ethnicity and a lot of anti-Semites seem to perceive Jewish people as being a different race. There are also physical features that people associate with Jewish people. For example, it's common for offensively stereotypical characters to have large noses in order to code them as Jewish.
That seems very disparaging toward the women. Like single women aren't capable of making reasonable choices about the families they have.
Who the hell else should make the decision?
If everyone wanted a child that looks like them (and this is ignoring the fact that all children inherit a mixture of features from both biological parents, and may or may not closely resemble the mother. What makes having a child who shares some of your features but has a darker skin tone any different than having a child who shares your skin tone but has different hair and eye colors?), then there would be no "need" for the company's policy. People can choose to select donors who match their ethnicity if they want. They shouldn't be forced to.
Depends on the rational behind the discrimination. Jewishness can be seen as an ethnicity and a lot of anti-Semites seem to perceive Jewish people as being a different race. There are also physical features that people associate with Jewish people. For example, it's common for offensively stereotypical characters to have large noses in order to code them as Jewish.
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Yup. And if the prospective parent isn't equipped to raise a child who is a PoC, that isn't for you to decide. That is for the parent to choose, obviously they feel equipped if they want a multiracial child.
Now, I will add the caveate that I feel a parent not willing to give a multi/biracial child a community outside of the white community isn't the best match for a child who IS going to be treated as a PoC all their lives. But it's unlikely such parents are going to want a multiracial child to begin with.
Perhaps unearned privileges isn't the most accurate description. I might call it negative, nagging things that don't happen to whites who may not be aware that such things regularly happen to minorities.
I recall reading in Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book "The Sky Is Not The Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist" about getting stopped by police as he took a long drive. He mentioned the acronyms DWB and JBB. As a white person, I don't think I've EVER been stopped by police for no good reason, without having actually done something that legitimately got their attention.
But again, this "unearned privilege" may be a misleading term. The "privileges" and respect that whites/men/WASPs enjoy should be enjoyed just as well by everyone including minorities, but too often they're not.