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[–] 21 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Another one for the list:

Any jew who forgets that they're not the only semitic pepple and cries antisemitism for themselves but not the Palestinians is a bad jew.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    No one hates being told there's more than one semitic peoples than semites. Gotta be God's most special children.

    Also:

    they're not the only semitic pepple

    I'm not calling you out for this typo, you just reminded me of "pepole" from the old Dot Dot Dot video, so I enjoyed another viewing and thought I'd share. Context if you're not familiar with the source material being reviewed.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    "Antisemitism" means hatred of Jewish people. It isn't a general term for hatred of Semitic people, just like "homophobia" isn't a fear of sameness, it's hatred toward gay people. Hating Palestinians makes you a horrible person, but it doesn't make you antisemitic (though there's certainly plenty of overlap).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    No thats what they made it to be. Not the actual meaning of the word in a linguistic sense

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    As I mentioned with homophobia, etymology is not the same as meaning.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    No but in this case yes. You're letting them take the meaning away from the word and in turn you're justifying their discrimination of other Semites.

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago

    The term was coined as a word for hatred of Jewish people. There was no existing meaning to take away. If someone is racist against Arabs, call them racist against Arabs. Quibbling over definitions just comes off like you don't have a better argument, especially when you're wrong about the definitions. Being racist against Arabs isn't bad because it's antisemitic, it's bad because racism is bad.

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