Ok wow, actually looked it up… Wtf??? Why does semitic and anti-semitic have a completely different definition? Man fuck this shit… I admit I didn’t look into it enough before forming an option, but who the fuck would separately look up “something” and “anti-something”??? Once I found semitic it lead me down the semitic languages and the history and bla bla route, not the btw this word has a different meaning in its negative form. Wikipedia even has a whole section dedicated to just how bullshit this is.
Tho tbh it doesn’t really change my feelings about the word. It still comes across as extremely problematic to use. Honestly it just seems like 100x worse now that I know the origin is a literal nazi conspiracy theory that hijacked the word and both versions are floating around today. With this context, calling arabs anti-semitic is calling them literal nazis, which I’d argue is worse than just “anti self existence”.
And before I star sounding too dismissive, thanks for the info, twas surprisingly and eye opening.
I mean, arabs can also be nazis. I dont think the problem lies within the word or the usage, but the application. Because pretending criticism of Israel is antisemitic or “Judenhass”, whatever you wanna call it, thats the real problem.
The houthis are definitely word we can agree upon to mean hating jews. The fact that they are Arabs does not change this. So in the end, i find the discussion around the word very weird.
Ok wow, actually looked it up… Wtf??? Why does semitic and anti-semitic have a completely different definition? Man fuck this shit… I admit I didn’t look into it enough before forming an option, but who the fuck would separately look up “something” and “anti-something”??? Once I found semitic it lead me down the semitic languages and the history and bla bla route, not the btw this word has a different meaning in its negative form. Wikipedia even has a whole section dedicated to just how bullshit this is.
Tho tbh it doesn’t really change my feelings about the word. It still comes across as extremely problematic to use. Honestly it just seems like 100x worse now that I know the origin is a literal nazi conspiracy theory that hijacked the word and both versions are floating around today. With this context, calling arabs anti-semitic is calling them literal nazis, which I’d argue is worse than just “anti self existence”.
And before I star sounding too dismissive, thanks for the info, twas surprisingly and eye opening.
I mean, arabs can also be nazis. I dont think the problem lies within the word or the usage, but the application. Because pretending criticism of Israel is antisemitic or “Judenhass”, whatever you wanna call it, thats the real problem.
The houthis are definitely word we can agree upon to mean hating jews. The fact that they are Arabs does not change this. So in the end, i find the discussion around the word very weird.