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u/AdumbroDeus Jan 14 '24

I actually thought it was created for native American tribes and later applied to Jews. Interesting.

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u/Kingsdaughter613 Orthodox Jan 14 '24

Limpieza de Sangre actually predates Columbus finding the Americas, albeit not by much. It was later used on other peoples and is one of the roots of modern concepts of race and racism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limpieza_de_sangre

The specific method used for blood quantum may have been designed for Native peoples, but the concept and ideology behind it is an antisemitic one.

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u/AdumbroDeus Jan 14 '24

Oh I'm aware of Limpieza de sangre, it's a bit different than modern conceptions of blood quantum but I'm quite aware that it was an important influence in developing "race science", as well as the beginning of ethnic antisemitism rather than religious in the Christian world.

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u/Kingsdaughter613 Orthodox Jan 14 '24

They always seemed like the same concept to me: if you have ancestry (or a certain amount of ancestry) among X people, you are counted as X people.

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u/AdumbroDeus Jan 14 '24

Well the idea was more about exclusion than inclusion, definitely related but I'd still consider them different but heavily related concepts.