You dont get to reassign the definition to fit your purpose and agenda
Yes, I'm saying that we shouldn't be reassigning the meaning of antisemitism.
Hegar
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What's going on with the top of the map?
It really shows that netanyahu's genocidal attempt to cling to power are not just brutal, inhumane and a risk to the whole region, but also strongly against israel's own interests.
When an asshole says they're good for the economy it's just more believable, because most rich people are assholes.
The term was coined by an academic and then claimed by fascists to describe their own hatred of jews. If anything, the current meaning as something to be reviled is the reclaimed version.
Antisemitism is a word that a historically oppressed group uses to defend itself. Others taking that away from jews is not the same thing as the reclaiming of queer or the n-word by their communities .
The word is being misused by israel and that's truly appalling, but there is still a valid use case for it's current meaning.
Wait you want to hear the FBI's version of why people who film factory farms should be charged with attempted use of WMDs?
Probably the FBI is not willing to explain why they want to pretend that exposing illegal animal cruelty is the same thing as planning a mustard gas attack.
Oh, % of year 2000 values, ok I get now.
The state of israel is already doing more than enough to "remove the air from the sails of the word "antisemitism".
Antisemitism is real and a real threat and it deserves a term that reflects the level of horror that it has inflicted. Minimizing the horrors of the holocaust against the jews does nothing to combat the holocaust israel is conducting. You can't draw attention to a genocide by minimizing a different genocide. That's not how horror at human barbary works.
No one is happy that israel is abusing the term antisemitism but the solution is to point that out. Or just laugh at israel when they make obviously untrue claims, as most people do.
Using antisemitic to mean hatred of speakers of semitic languages doesn't make sense because no one groups all speakers of semitic languages together. Hatred of jews and hatred of arabs are two very different phenomena with vastly different sets of prejudices and stereotypes, each deserving of their own term.
It's not a conspiracy of the israeli government to modify english words to exclude arabs.
Semitic was a termed coined by a german academic in the late 1700s, to mean semitic languages. Antisemitism was being used to mean hatred of jews by the mid to late 1800s, mostly by german and prussian nationalists describing their own hatred of jews as antisemitism. When english borrows the term from german in 1881, it already meant hatred of jews.
We trip regularly and I use to work in childcare. This does not sound negligent to me at all.
Mushrooms just aren't very disabling once you're familiar with them and measure doses. I've ran into and chatted with professional acquaintances while on mushrooms. It's fine.
It's done wonders for our relationship and mental health. I don't think it's for everyone, but it's been a huge boon to us.