Stupid Questions Thread

This is a thread meant for simple questions and simple responses, preferably links to educational resources.

I figured maybe other people are like me and have some small questions they don't know where to put and that don't merit their own thread. Ok, so I know that there are those that get frustrated with the stupid questions, so I thought by giving the thread this title perhaps those aggravated by such things may take the hint, and those of use with a stupid /prog/ related question may choose to use this thread to ask them in relative safety! A reasonable idea? We shall see!

Whether you're new to /prog/ or not, at some point you have probably had a question that you thought was stupid and didn't really want to start a thread for it, and didn't want to hijack someone elses thread either.

Here is your chance to claim "stupid question amnesty" and help others with the same question find educational content at the end of a quick search.

Maybe it will work and prove to be a great resource. Maybe it will get buried with no activity whatsoever only to get necro'd 3 years from now, mocking it's failure. (in which case I will claim amnesty)

I've always told people when they prefaced a question with "this is a stupid question..." by saying there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. It gets a laugh. So I've always been careful of not saying this may be a stupid question.

Here's a place for new owners to ask those "stupid" questions. The kind you're embarrassed to ask for fear of being laughed at, or lectured for being such a noob.

Then hopefully some wise /prog/rider who, feeling ambivalent or simply bored, cruises by might share said wisdom with grace and style.

Someone please ask a stupid question. I'm jealous of the people who can answer the smart ones.

Lets all work together to give answers where we can without speculating. If you don't know, don't answer. If you do, let's get these stupid questions out there and answered!

Remember, the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask.

>>48
Quoting your article, Wikifaggot:

In the early 19th century, in some less modernised regions of the world, exogamy was extremely rare - less than a tenth of a percent (0.1%) of the Jews of Algeria, for example, practiced exogamy.[44] But in the early 20th century, even in most Germanic regions of central Europe[45] there were still only a mere 5% of Jews marrying non-Jews.

Although this seems to have changed in the recent times:

The 1990 National Jewish Population Survey reported an intermarriage rate of 52 percent among American Jews.

...but the wise racist Jews rightly view this as a threat to their identity:

The possibility that this might lead to the gradual dying out of Judaism, much like the historic fate of Arianism, is regarded by most Jewish leaders, regardless of denomination, as precipitating a crisis. For this reason, as early as the mid 19th century, some senior Jewish leaders denounced intermarriage as a danger to the continued existence of Judaism.

So it's not that Jews have never been racist, it's that they have been racist for centuries, and view the recent decline in Jewish racism as a dangerous condition (which might be the reason Israel does all it can to not accept any African immigrants).

Islamic scholars generally forbid Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men

Of course they do, but that is a religious restriction, not an ethnic one. Any Arab will gladly marry a white or a black woman if she converts to islam.