Reply #112: Jack...etal

[Lithos]

Your argument is kinda like arguing that it is wrong to call native North Americans, Indians, because even though Columbus saddled them with the term, he was wrong because they were really not from India. After all, semantically, Indian means someone from India...

The truth is that Anti-Semitism has acquired a meaning which stands on its own. It may have been coined in mistake, but its meaning is extremely clear and been the definition used by the perpetrators and the victims of the hate not once, but for over 150 years since the initial coinage. Trying to change its meaning is extremely insensitive.

And if that were not enough, the attempts to change this definition in this manner have been taken up by several groups who are demonstrably anti-Semitic and are wanting to confuse and cloud the usage.

Lithos
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