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1. I think posting something like that on LinkedIn is wildly inappropriate. I know it has dreams of being the next Facebook. I wish they’d stick to their lane a
by yardie 5y ago
1. I think posting something like that on LinkedIn is wildly inappropriate. I know it has dreams of being the next Facebook. I wish they’d stick to their lane and keep on being the professional social network everyone hates to use except when they’re job hunting.
2. Part of his statement rings true. Like how can you be anti-Semitic when you are also a Semite.
3. The west should really pay attention. The same propaganda techniques Arab governments have been using for decades to demonize Jews is being used on social media, talk radio, and the news.
4. Unfortunately, this firing feeds into the long held conspiracies that Jews are infinitely powerful and any criticism of them will get you silenced. Might there be other reasons he was let go. There is subtext in the article that points to it. But the narrative is he was fired for holding anti-Semitic views.
- joecool1029 5y agoExpanding on #2. 'Antisemitism' has always been a poor label for hatred of the Jewish people. It was invented around the time that Hebrew was brought back from the dead and is a term that excludes speakers of Semitic languages that never had their language go dead. It is unfortunately the prevaling terminology, despite this fact.
- happytoexplain 5y ago>how can you be anti-Semitic when you are also a Semite. There is no contradiction here, and his pointing it out was a bizarre tangent to me. "Semitic" by definition refers to the semitic religions, but "anti-semitic" is used nigh exclusively in both spoken and written communication to mean anti-Jewish.
- dagmx 5y agoRegarding your second point, you can totally be bigoted against a demographic you belong to. Bobby Fischer for example is a very high profile person. Candace Owens is another.
- seattle_spring 5y agoSame with Clayton Bigsby.
- vogon_laureate 5y ago2: the word ‘antisemite’ was popularised by German trade unionist and pamphleteer Wilhelm Marr who wanted to have a fancier, and thus more acceptable, scientific name for Judenhass (‘Jew hate’). The word has only ever been used to refer to anti-Jewish racism. The word ‘Semite’ is a product of the abhorrent ‘race science’ of the time in Europe that purported to divide up peoples according to pseudo-scientific fashion of the time. It is only now used in the field of linguistics where eg. Arabic and Hebrew are both Semitic languages. This has nothing to do with antisemitism. This is also why we write it as one word rather than hyphenated with a capital S.
- joecool1029 5y ago> The word ‘Semite’ is a product of the abhorrent ‘race science’ of the time in Europe that purported to divide up peoples according to pseudo-scientific fashion of the time. Nope. The word Semite was coined in 1771 by August Ludwig von Schlözer to refer to a family of languages and their people. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/18229/summary https://muse.jhu.edu/article/18229/summary
- vogon_laureate 5y ago‘And their people…’ Schlözer was a member of the Göttingen School of History which is credited with “two fundamental groups of terminologies of scientific racism” one of which is the biblical terminology for race (eg. Semitic, Hamitic, etc). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göttingen_school_of_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göttingen_school_of_history
- elliekelly 5y agoI think a lot of linguistic terms were stolen and repurposed as a way to lend credence and legitimacy to racist ideology. The same is true of the term “Aryan” which originally referred to people who spoke Indo-European languages:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race From the wikipedia article, the gentleman who first used the term “Aryan race” (in the context of language, not ethnicity) later said: > These two sciences, the Science of Language and the Science of Man, cannot, at least for the present, be kept too much asunder; [...] I must repeat, what I have said many times before, it would be as wrong to speak of Aryan blood as of dolichocephalic grammar.
- sascha_sl 5y agoYou will never avoid #4 unfortunately. It's just part of the entire cancel culture culture now to ascribe institutional power to people and individuals, even those who get lipservice at best. See corporations on social media putting pride flag overlays on their logos while their CS reps argue with outraged reactionaries about how they don't actually mean anything by it in the one post where they talk about some abstract need for disversity.