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It’s because Israel isn’t relevant here, it’s Saudi Arabia
by gbear605 11mo ago
It’s because Israel isn’t relevant here, it’s Saudi Arabia
- kachapopopow 11mo agook I actually wanted to look up what antisematism actually means since the only context I've seen it is israel, so I looked up what sematism is which lead me to one who has sematic qualities which is: Semitic of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic Saudi Arabia is arabic so technically they're correct?
- School-Cotton 11mo ago"semitic" has this broader meaning, yes, but the specific term "antisemitism" is only used to refer to Jews, not to Arabs (or, for that matter, Amharic-speaking Ethiopians). It also doesn't specifically refer to the State of Israel, but to Jews everywhere.
- brazukadev 11mo agoAs "anti-islasmism" is just business as usual for the west, no new words were needed.
- School-Cotton 11mo ago"Islamophobia" is in fact a widely-used English word. (But it doesn't quite mean the same thing as "prejudice against Arabs", since "Muslims" and "Arabs" are different sets).
- brendoelfrendo 11mo agoAs a sibling commenter noted, Islamophobia is probably the common word used in US media for this concept. Islamism, by contrast, is typically used in the English-speaking world to refer specifically to the ideological movements that hold that Islam should be the basis of political systems (that is, establishing explicitly Islamic states; implementing Sharia as the basis of state legal systems; etc). So anti-Islamism, then, would carry a different meaning than Islamophobia or anti-Islamic or anti-Arab sentiment more generally.
- breppp 11mo agoSimilar to other racial categories these do not have a real link to reality, and are mostly artifacts of how racist tried to link these to something tangible (Think how White is applied to a specific subset of people with pale skin)