How to understand "sustained association with the German race"? It already says the since time immemorial that Jews have lived in Germany (even though being confined to ghettos and deprived of civic status) - that is, Jews are always associated with the German race, sustaining for two millenniums. Now do you want the Jews be rendered pure by sustained association with the German race? What do you mean? Do you think that Jews living in ghettos are not part of German race?
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Ironically, the very fact that Jews had been mistreated in Germany (and elsewhere) since time immemorial—by being confined to ghettos and deprived of civic status—gave rise to the modern, secular strand of antiSemitism, for it was not until the emancipation efforts of the early nineteenth century that the hatred of the Jews acquired an explicitly racial inflection. Even the self-proclaimed "friends of the Jews" who sought the admission of Jews into German society with the full privileges of citizenship did so only on the assumption that the Jews could be reformed thereby and rendered pure by sustained association with the German race.
-Sam Harris
Source: The End of Faith (PDF)
Thanks in advance
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Ironically, the very fact that Jews had been mistreated in Germany (and elsewhere) since time immemorial—by being confined to ghettos and deprived of civic status—gave rise to the modern, secular strand of antiSemitism, for it was not until the emancipation efforts of the early nineteenth century that the hatred of the Jews acquired an explicitly racial inflection. Even the self-proclaimed "friends of the Jews" who sought the admission of Jews into German society with the full privileges of citizenship did so only on the assumption that the Jews could be reformed thereby and rendered pure by sustained association with the German race.
-Sam Harris
Source: The End of Faith (PDF)