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flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 20 hours agoWhen I was 14, I also wisecracked that, but then
- I learned that linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one: meaning correspond to usage, not what a word is “supposed” to mean
- 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.
Fortunafors@lemmy.world 14 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.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Where is that? I’ve never once heard of read of “antisemitism” being used that way
Fortunafors@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
A region at the north of south America where Muslim is broadly practiced, not so many Jews here, and the word Islam-phobia isn’t popular.