May 4, 2012 -- 9:34AM, browbeaten wrote:

May 4, 2012 -- 9:01AM, Dostojevsky wrote:

Apr 23, 2012 -- 1:25PM, JAstor wrote:

Apr 23, 2012 -- 1:14PM, Miraj wrote:

I'm a Semite.  Jews who hate me are anti-Semitic. Denial of that fact is racist.

Employing Newspeak to deflect conversation about real anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim Middle East is racist. 

Things are gettng more complicated.

Now we have anti-semitism, and real anti-semitism

Now, that makes two people who can't read a dictionary.

They can read the dictionary, but they choose not to. It is a perfect example of doublespeak, an effort to remove meaning from words to prevent discourse and intellegent analysis. It is a dishonest practice engaged in by those who lack legitimate arguments.

Dishonesty in discourse is more or less par for the course from the anti-Israel. anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic communitie(s). 

It's unreasonable to want to maintain the ability to say to a Semite that they are an anti-Semite, but the pale, blond European Jew accusing you is the real Semite.  Dictionaries be damned, logic is its own excuse for reason.  Admit it, it's a word that no longer serves its original purpose.  Trying to get Arabs to go accede with more eurocentrism in favor of non-Semites is a waste of time.  That's especially true when there is little else of WWII racism that Jews want to hold on to.  This one raises pro-Israel funds; that's why its nostalgia is so precious.

May 4, 2012 -- 4:46PM, rocketjsquirell wrote:

Miraj

Most of us speak English. If you are going to speak English you have to accept common usage of English words. Logic has very little to do with language and even less to do with your screed.

I don't speak eurotrash.  Since you speak English, you know it's changing all the time.  Since we outnumber you, we'll make this term change, too.

May 4, 2012 -- 5:04PM, Miraj wrote:

I don't speak eurotrash. 

Nobody said you did.

Why do people use this word, eurotrash? Why do you use it?

It sounds like it is meant to denigrate my continent in some way - i.o.w., its usage seems to be a variant of racism.

Since we outnumber you, we'll make this term change, too.

Only if "you" start making sense. Truth is what will prevail, not the majority's delusion.

The words we talk about here, "antisemitism" as a specific form of xenophobia, and "semitic" as an adjective when it relates to languages etc., are good words with clear meaning, and there is no linguistic need to re-define them.

May 4, 2012 -- 5:21PM, CharikIeia wrote:

May 4, 2012 -- 5:04PM, Miraj wrote:

I don't speak eurotrash. 

Nobody said you did.

Why do people use this word, eurotrash? Why do you use it?

It sounds like it is meant to denigrate my continent in some way - i.o.w., its usage seems to be a variant of racism.

Is "Anti-Semite" a form of racism when Arabs can't use it against Jews? Yes.

Since we outnumber you, we'll make this term change, too.

Only if "you" start making sense. Truth is what will prevail, not the majority's delusion.

The majority includes non-Arabs who insist that Jews are the only "Semites" that can't be anti-Semitic.  Still waiting for that majority to make sense.