I’m not hear to talk about Palestine, Hezbollah, or Iran. I mean in general, objectively, it’s getting thrown around so much, for reasons that do not seem antisemetic in nature.
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Might make more sense to just call someone a racist instead at this point
That and many other terms like it have gone through a lot of concept creep. People just keep stretching the label to include more and more things, which makes it lose its clear definition. That then incentivizes fights where one person uses the loose version and the other sticks to the strict one, so we can’t even agree on what’s going on in the world anymore.
There’s a whole list of terms like that. They’ve been so mis- and overused that the moment I see someone using them unironically, my eyes just glaze over and all I hear is “Booo! I don’t like this.”
TikTok showed Americans what was happening for like 6 months and all the Zionist propaganda lost its punch. And European Jews are not Semites (while Palestinians are) but that’s a different convo, lol.
Yes.
Now that it’s been redefined to include any criticism of Israel, as if all Jews are Israeli; People don’t care about it as much.Wasn’t that obvious when people that say they don’t tolerate genocide, without even mentioning israel, are automatically labeled as antisemites?
The “antisemitism” brand is just a way to keep playing victim. They sow both fabricated AND real antisemitism.
The fabricated one is used to blow numbers out of proportion. The real antisemitism is used by individual example.
In the end, Israel is the self-made innocent.
Always fun to remember people that Israel is antisemitic because Palestinians would also be counted as Semites and also that Semite is a borderline racist, best-case oversimplifying term. The cherry on top is that is was coined in Germany
I mean we are at a point that if you don’t support a genocide you are being called antisemitic.
Ah yes, I remember when the holocaust happened and all the victims said “let’s do this again” /s
It’s because the heritage foundation started using it to attack Palestine supporters. including Jewish ones.
It’s been weaponized and it’s being used as a shield. Of course it’s going to lose its meaning.
It is a real world example of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
I think the sympathy capital stored away for the Jewish people generated by the atrocities of World War II has not only been cashed in, it’s been squandered on political buffoonery, bad wars, and worst of all, it’s been utilized to fuel a genocide which is as evil as what the Jewish people survived in Germany.
I highly recommend The Hundred Years War on Palestine. .
The current genocide issue predates WWII.
But the Jewish people still deserve sympathy, right? You’re just concerned they’re not getting it.
It’s not deserved only because of the Holocaust and the pogroms before it. It’s not like real anti-Semitism just stopped when anti-Zionism came into vogue.
Where did I say they didn’t? This is the issue. ISRAEL IS NOT JUDAISM. Israel does not mean “Jewish.” No more than America is Christian. Stop this line of thinking.
Where did I say you said that? I asked and then clarified what I thought your position was.
In fact, you said nothing at all about Israel in your original comment. You seemed to imply that Jewish people had squandered the sympathy they had once earned.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt and a chance to clarify, and you flipped out.
Not just its punch, it’s lost its meaning.
People use it as a shortcut to shut a conversation down.
Are you antisemite?
Has the word antisemite lost it’s punch?
Is isn’t punch.
Yup
In short, yes.
Its not just lost its punch, its almost gone around to being a badge of honor at this point.
