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Anti-semitism has had a very clear meaning for decades which would not include discrimination against Palestinian Arabs. Arguing that "Semite refers to both Pa
by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Anti-semitism has had a very clear meaning for decades which would not include discrimination against Palestinian Arabs.
Arguing that "Semite refers to both Palestinians and Israelis" and therefore anti-semitism doesn't mean what everyone understands it to mean, is pedantic at best, but mostly grossly misleading.
If we stuck to this logic we would have to eliminate Computer Science departments across the country because there's very little that's "scientific" about what CS courses teach.
- leephillips 3y agoIt’s not pedantic, because pedantry is a pointless insistence on detailed correctness. It’s simply wrong. Many words in English mean something other (sometimes something opposite) than what their roots and etymology suggest. Mistaking etymology for meaning is a tiresome, sophomoric mistake. Antisemitism is Jew hatred, period.