This sub is basically antisemitism

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"Antisemitic" to refer to people who follow Jewish traditions is an appropriation. Arabs are also a Semitic people, for example. See Semitic language family.

Aryan or European or whatever you want to tall them non-Semitic peoples are uncomfortable with Semitic peoples living among them too much or in too disruptive a way for the same legitimate reasons any group would feel uncomfortable with such an arrangement with outsiders. Same sorts of reasons some people in Israel would like for it to remain predominantly Jewish.

Please use appropriate terminology. I know a lot of people have been taught that "antisemitic" is the correct word, but it's not. The correct word is anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti-Judeist, whatever, unless you're actually referring to a negative sentiment towards Semitic stuff and not just to Jewish stuff specifically.

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Yeah but whatever, it's still used in that context today

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Words have meaning. Words are used to communicate, using MEANING. Changing the meaning of words in a haphazard, seemingly random way - and it may very well NOT be random at all - can lead to absolutely Orwellian situations where entire ways of thinking about certain topics become ablated from the vocabulary and thus, from the very thinking processes that make minds worth something.

This is how thoughtcrime and newspeak are integral to George Orwell's totalitarian nightmare dystopia in "1984". Isn't it interesting that YET AGAIN it's a jew who says "yeah whatever, it's fine". Rotting the world, are we?

[–]GreenCappy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, words have meaning. No matter the meaning of the word "semitism", the word "ANTI-SEMITISM" is used to denote hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews since WW2. You know, you antisemitic bigot, words seems to change and English is a living language that evolves, and anti semitism just happens to means that right now since fucking 1945 or even before.

And about all y'all saying that "we don't hate Jews, we just hate zionism!" yeah you have the right to hate zionism. However zionists have a right to exist, the same way as American nationalists. But you're spreading conspiracy theories, blaming always zionists of literally everything in the world, and even tho its not directly antisemitism, its most likely to be actually antisemitism. Like holocaust denial. Why don't you deny holodomor? Because you don't want to make seem communism and stalinism seem less bad? But you want Hitler to seem less bad!

But actually I've seen actual direct antisemitism, like people assuming I'm a Jew because of my views, and in the same sentence assuming I'm "rotting the world" because you think I'm a jew, and also saying things like "soy don't want you to know, rabbi" or whatever who denote Jewish terms in a negative manner.

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Do you hate Arabs, Ethiopians, and other non-Jewish Semitic people? You don't have the excuse of ignorance anymore, people have patiently explained why it's appropriative to use that word the way you are. How can you keep doing it knowing how it hurts people to do it? Don't you want to be good to everyone?