• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Which would be more true than most of Putin’s claims.

    Nazi is stretching the word, but not really very much. Palestinians are Semites though, so anti-Semitic isn’t a stretch at all, it’s just blatantly correct

    • PoTayToes@sh.itjust.works
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      49 minutes ago

      Antisemitism has one specific definition, which is the hatred of Jews.

      Please don’t use an etymological fallacy often used by antisemites (“It’s not antisemitism, I’m not calling for the death of Palestinians” is an actual thing I’ve seen). Also as yesman said, “Semites” is indeed race science, which should not be used as if it has any kind of validity whatsoever.

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      23 hours ago

      “Semite” is as archaic (and accurate) as “mongoloid” or “Aryan”. It’s no matter that it uses language as a proxy for blood. Reformed race science is still race science.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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        20 hours ago

        I was under the impression “Semitic peoples” broadly meant “from the Eastern Mediterranean coastal area.” While there’s obviously been a lot of migration to and from the area, is it really as pseudoscientific as making up things about the spread of a random tribe that migrated to India?