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First of all they didn't Here's a reminder of what the word 'Semitic' means: "Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3

First of all they didn't Here's a reminder of what the word 'Semitic' means: "Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
Antisemitism means anti-Jewish, not anti the Semitic people, because Prussians [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage
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- WhereIsTheTruth 1y ago
  The 19th century German coinage "antisemitism" was never a neutral label for "opposition to Judaism", it was a racial science slogan that recast Christian anti-Judaism as a biological war against "Semitic" Orientals At the time it had no connection with Zionism Because the word now circulates without that historical packaging, many people take "Jew" to be a racial category and imagine Jews, not Arabs, Assyrians, or other Semitic language communities, to be the only Semitic group, an assumption that reproduces the very Nazi racial taxonomy the term originally served Its very design, framing Jews alone as the quintessentially "Semitic" target, censors every attempt to talk about the Middle East, because it buries the shared Semitic matrix (Arab, Assyrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.) under a racialized badge that only sticks to one side Once the vocabulary itself encodes a single victim story, any mention of parallel or overlapping suffering sounds like denial instead of description, and the conversation stalls before facts can even be named
  - breppp 1y ago
    The Nazis had no problem allying with the Arabs including the Palestinians in WW2, so there is evidence these weren't placed in the same racial category as Jews. As these racial categories are all pseudo-science anyway, their only meaning is the meaning attributed to them by the racists. So you can only complain to 19th century Europeans for not being as racist towards Arabs

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

Antisemitism means anti-Jewish, not anti the Semitic people, because Prussians [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage

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WhereIsTheTruth 1y ago
The 19th century German coinage "antisemitism" was never a neutral label for "opposition to Judaism", it was a racial science slogan that recast Christian anti-Judaism as a biological war against "Semitic" Orientals At the time it had no connection with Zionism Because the word now circulates without that historical packaging, many people take "Jew" to be a racial category and imagine Jews, not Arabs, Assyrians, or other Semitic language communities, to be the only Semitic group, an assumption that reproduces the very Nazi racial taxonomy the term originally served Its very design, framing Jews alone as the quintessentially "Semitic" target, censors every attempt to talk about the Middle East, because it buries the shared Semitic matrix (Arab, Assyrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.) under a racialized badge that only sticks to one side Once the vocabulary itself encodes a single victim story, any mention of parallel or overlapping suffering sounds like denial instead of description, and the conversation stalls before facts can even be named
- breppp 1y ago
  The Nazis had no problem allying with the Arabs including the Palestinians in WW2, so there is evidence these weren't placed in the same racial category as Jews. As these racial categories are all pseudo-science anyway, their only meaning is the meaning attributed to them by the racists. So you can only complain to 19th century Europeans for not being as racist towards Arabs