• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Antisemitism refers specifically to hatred against Jews, not all Semitic people in general.

    Just like antibiotics don’t kill all biological life. Words have meaning.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      24 hours ago

      hi. cultural inheritor of the jewish identity here. a genocide in my name against my semitic cousins is antisemitic in that the core value of my jewish identity is standing against opression. to say that my identity is meant to be a particular form of oppressor is hate towards the jewish identity. that is how i read that other comment. yes. words do have meanings, and those meanings matter, and you have to look at them and take them on instead of just ignoring them like your comment did