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In reply to the discussion: Florida student openly admits to being 'anti-Jewish' at panel event [View all]sarisataka
(19,456 posts)20. Actual scientists would agree
Last edited Sun May 12, 2024, 02:36 PM - Edit history (1)
The "racial" definitions were pseudoscientific terms created to justify racism. The argument that antisemitic applies to all Middle Eastern people is using their pseudoscience definition. It (antisemitism) applies to Jews alone.
The term antisemitic was coined to soften the previous term used in Germany, Judenhass "Jew hate"
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Florida student openly admits to being 'anti-Jewish' at panel event [View all]
Beastly Boy
May 12
OP
You knew what they meant. And anti-semitic means anti-Jewish in common usage and has for a while.
NoRethugFriends
May 12
#14
She is a bigot who has at the very least made her life more difficult in the years to come.
Demsrule86
May 12
#11
Or perhaps they weren't, she could and likely is, a Jew hater by her own admission.
MarineCombatEngineer
May 12
#33