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Riding Wonder Woman's Coattails: Racializing Judaism is like trying to will the tidewaters from coming in.

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Using imaginary definitions like "People of Colour" as a defence mechanism will gain you no respect from enemies, nor the admiration of peers. The racial identity of Wonder Woman lead actress Gal Gadot has sparked a debate totally unrelated to enjoying comic book films. I recently clashed with an author that has been on a warpath. This person seemed intent on defending the honour of one Gal Gadot, an actress now world famous for portraying Wonder Woman who happens to also be a Jewish Israeli. As tends to be the norm nowadays, the hyper-racial far-left press has condemned Gadot as being the idealization of the white European woman whereas Wonder Woman would supposedly be a princess of a non-white Amazonian race. They have also criticized her for being skinny and having shaved armpits . Such is the perception pattern of a society of know-it-alls that have to ruin everything. The author was so perturbed by attacks on Gadot's racial background by intersectional femin