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<blockquote data-quote="iWeed" data-source="post: 2060637" data-attributes="member: 721045">I only answer them with what I know from scholarly research on Judaism. If I, being gentile, should not answer a question on Judaism, perhaps you should not answer a question on, say, botany, because you are not a plant? Just as one has an intellectual interest in something, does not mean you need to identify with it to be an expert or to give a correct answer when asked a question about something.I would, at a wild guess, say the mean comments are a reflection of internalised racism (or perhaps simple religious discrimination), and is, in effect, emptied on questions relating to Judaism. It&#039;s not unlike how people may be highly racist on the internet, but not act it at all in real life: it&#039;s just the fact humans don&#039;t have an identity on the internet, and so feel like they can do what they like. Not that it is right, but that seems a plausible explanation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iWeed, post: 2060637, member: 721045"] I only answer them with what I know from scholarly research on Judaism. If I, being gentile, should not answer a question on Judaism, perhaps you should not answer a question on, say, botany, because you are not a plant? Just as one has an intellectual interest in something, does not mean you need to identify with it to be an expert or to give a correct answer when asked a question about something. I would, at a wild guess, say the mean comments are a reflection of internalised racism (or perhaps simple religious discrimination), and is, in effect, emptied on questions relating to Judaism. It's not unlike how people may be highly racist on the internet, but not act it at all in real life: it's just the fact humans don't have an identity on the internet, and so feel like they can do what they like. Not that it is right, but that seems a plausible explanation. [/QUOTE]

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