Reply To: A Serious Question for Jewish Democrats

“Isn’t that, like, what being a racist is?”
If the Torah told you that you couldn’t do business with someone based on their ethnicity, would you go off the derech because it would be “what being a racist is?”

Like it or not, there are restrictions when it comes to dealing with idol worshipers, and eastern religion is unambiguous avodah zara. The halachah really doesn’t care how well it meshes with 21st century, progressive sentimentality.

On a side note, as far as ethnicity is concerned, I believe Gabbard is a convert (not that there’s such thing as a Hindu race anyway).