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The terms 'racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitic' are tossed around casually, and, I believe used inappropriately even by institutional entities in the
by jollybean 5y ago
The terms 'racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitic' are tossed around casually, and, I believe used inappropriately even by institutional entities in the media, government, and most scary, the judiciary.
There's nary that much real authority on the use of those words, so we're forced to be nuanced and come to our own conclusions.
For example, there's a big difference between 'agents of Israel' and 'Israel has direct influence among the student body' - even though they kind of mean the same thing.
And of course, the Israeli government does have very material influence, the CCP even more so, institutionally, it's a real issue but we have to be careful how we talk about it.
I also don't put to much stock in arbitrary comments made off of the cuff, and I think we should cut people some slack when speaking, which is different than what they might publish.
The word 'targeted' wasn't really brought to the fore in the Miller issue, which is too bad, because that one word in particularly is strongly indicting. If the Unis press release were to have made specific reference to this, there might be a lot less hubub.