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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reminds me of when the US took out Saddam, the US was wrong for invading Iraq. But saddam was not a good guy and deserved to die. Both can be true. And I do remember during the Iraq invasion people defending Saddam, not the people of Iraq but defending Saddam as a guy who was good cause he opposed America

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• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Conflating Israel and Jews is called antisemitism. If someone is just anti-Israel, they don’t become antisemitic from that (but it sure invites a lot of antisemites who smell a possible convert)

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  • Fortunafors@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not quite, cause semites also includes Muslim Arabs, also most Anti-israel people are just anti-zionism, The thing is most people that are anti-israel are just anti-jews because they know nothing they talk about.

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When I was 14, I also wisecracked that, but then

      1. I learned that linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one: meaning correspond to usage, not what a word is “supposed” to mean
      2. I realized that words often have meanings that don’t correspond to their literal translation

      So no, antisemitism doesn’t refer to any semitic tribes that aren’t Jewish.

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      • Fortunafors@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I agree with you that words meaning is a thing of context, and what matters the most is what people imply when they use it, generalization usually takes a person to the wrong path; the only real guide for almost everything is the context.

        IMO, anti-Semitism is more used to refer to anti-muslim sentiment than anti-jew sentiment, but I guess the location on earth that I walk matters a lot.

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