• Vytle@lemmy.world
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    Bro can i just say that i fucking hate that anti-semetic is even an argument used when someone demonstrates support for Hamas? it doesnt even make sense because by definition both parties are semetic.

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      I think there is a very good argument of antisemitism if you support Hamas. There is no argument for antisemitism if you support Palestinians.

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            “Hamas vs Israel” is a category error. It’s Hamas vs Likud or Palestine vs Israel. Nobody should support Hamas or Likud. Nobody should even tolerate them. They’re both terrorist groups whose goal is genocide.

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            “Race” for humans is a made up concept and “racism” has been used to refer to any kind of hating a group for their ethnicity. “Ethnicity” is a very ambiguously defined concept notably including shared attributes like nationality, language, history, religion, etc.

            I, too, am not a fan of words being used incorrectly, but this is not an incorrect use of “racism”.

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            People are killing each other over land and historical grievances, not whether to call God Allah or Yahweh.

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            Biologically speaking, there is only one human race. So, does that make the word “racism” invalid? It’s a stupid term whose origin makes no sense, but I’d argue its meaning had transcended its original linguistic root. Same for anti-“semitism”.

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              Biologically speaking, there is only one human race

              The colloquial term for a group with common physical features is race. That biologists have a different technical meaning isn’t relevant. If you deny that people categorize others and call it “race” then you deny racism.

              Racial:

              “relating to the major groupings into which humankind is sometimes divided on the basis of physical characteristics or shared ancestry.”

              I’d argue its meaning had transcended its original linguistic root.

              But this is religious discrimination. I’ve already shown that neither ethnic group nor racial group matters in this situation.

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          Damn I wonder why the people being subjected to genocide support the group fighting the genociders?

          I just can’t work it out.

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        You’re telling me that you haven’t seen those green headbands at ‘peace rallys’? They’re at every one I’ve seen on the news. Including the one where they attacked Santa LoL.

        Those are Hamas flags. Dunno what that could be other than support… they’re rocking the merch.

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      Colloquially yeah it makes a lot of sense to say Hamas is antisemitic, the word means hatred for Jews regardless of the etymology of ‘semite’. Take it up with marriam-webster, not the people correctly using the modern definition of the word

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        Hamas Charter, excerpt.
        16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

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      it doesnt even make sense because by definition both parties are semetic.

      Oof, either you’re just grossly misinformed and performing a cringey “ackchually”, or you’re anti-semitic yourself and perpetuating anti-semitic rhetoric.

      While yes, both are Semitic people, the term ‘anti-semitic’ was specifically coined by Nazi Germany to make their genocide seem like it had a basis in science. They specifically used it to refer to Jews. Nobody uses “anti-semitic” to mean all semites except hate groups and holocaust deniers who are trying to say “see, it doesn’t even mean Jews specifically! Jews are just playing the victim!”

      I will assume you’re simply ignorant or misinformed, but feel free to correct me if this was actually an intentional dog-whistle.

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      Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who interpret it as referring to racist hatred directed at all “Semitic people” (i.e., those who speak Semitic languages, such as Arabs, Assyrians, and Arameans). This usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus (lit. ‘antisemitism’) was first used in print in Germany in 1879[17] as a “scientific-sounding term” for Judenhass (lit. ‘Jew-hatred’),[18][19][20][21][22] and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.