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Fortunafors@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
When 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.
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- Fortunafors@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Where is that? I’ve never once heard of read of “antisemitism” being used that way
    
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    Fortunafors@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.
    
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