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Israel just openly doing a war crime 100% speedrun just daring anyone to say anything that hasn't been filtered through an entire PR department
The level of arrogance on display in not realizing how devastating the consequences of this open genocide will be makes Americans look meek and humble by comparison.
I was going to speak up against the murder of civilians in an open air prison by an apartheid state, but I didn't want to be labeled an antisemite.
Simple, we change the definition of antisemite from "discrimination against all jew" to "strong criticism against far right Israel government who commit war crime for decades".
They have the full backing of the US to commit this genocide, so...
Maybe the real terrorism was the friends we made along the way
Ahh shit, run guys, there's Hamas hidden in that article.
Antisemitism is a idea, ideas can live in the minds of people, people reporting from Palestine are antisemitic, therefore killing the journalist was a valid military target.
Even though the journalist, an Arab, is a Semite....
Semite - Wiktionary 2. A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs, Aksumites, and Ethiopians.
People are dying. Let's not get carried away with nonsense. When people use the term "antisemitism" they are using the modern defition to mean prejudice against Jewish people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
Those self hating semites
Everything can be justified using illogical mental gymnastics.
Like Ben Franklin said (paraphrased) rational thinking is for rationalizing bullshit.
Ah, nice to see wiktionary hasn't been edited.
Articles on Wikipedia are heavily edited so that anti-semitism can only mean anti-Jew in Wikipedia. Terms such as Semitic people are called obsolete.
Wikipedia really gets politicized.
Articles on Wikipedia are heavily edited so that anti-semitism can only mean anti-Jew in Wikipedia.
When was the last time that term meant anything but anti-Jew in English? Yeah I'm aware what the word Semite means. Sometimes word meanings change. Pretty sure anti-semite has referred to people who hate Jews since many decades ago.
Is there a reason you're so salty about this particular fairly old shift in language? Do tell why.
Is there a reason you’re so salty about this particular fairly old shift in language? Do tell why.
In a pre-WWII European context (where the only relevant Semites were Jews), letting the meaning shift was one thing.
In this Middle Eastern context (with two relevant groups of Semites), it's entirely different: it's an attempt to "other" and dehumanize Arabs by denying their shared Semitic heritage and instead claiming it exclusively for Jews. It's a fundamentally dishonest definition that facilitates DARVO tactics.
it's an attempt to "other" and dehumanize Arabs
So using a term the way it's been used for decades is suddenly malicious if we change contexts.
No, I'm not buying that at all.
I mean, if you generalize it THAT far, I'm sure there are many terms that become malicious. The current bad words weren't always bad words in some cases (thinking more like the odd slurs like "idiot" than the tried and true cuss words).
In fact, wasn't f*ggot ONLY a term for bundles of sticks used for tinder until it became fashionable to burn gay people like witches?
Redefining words has been a political tool since forever. But they do have meanings, and a history, so if someone uses an archaic term... you can use the term right back at them.
I both laughed and cried at the same time. What is it with both belligerents in this war and killing the other side’s journalists? (One of the most dishonorable and dirty things you could do)
Careful, Isreal might attack you for that opinion.