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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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨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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      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Where is that? I’ve never once heard of read of “antisemitism” being used that way

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