Much like the term "alt-right" as a replacement for "neo-Nazi", it's their own word, and people in Germany started picking it up just so everyone would know what they were talking about Over a more accurate, blunt term like "Judenhass" ("Jew-hate")
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Anyway don't get distracted by bullshit like "Semitic refers to a language family, Ethiopians speak a Semitic language" Yeah so what The term "antisemite" was THEIR word for THEMSELVES based on their wackjob beliefs, using it doesn't mean you think they're true
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For me, it's basically a modified version of the fallacy of "appeal to dictionary". One of the most essential tools of communication is finding the exact definition for the words used according to the context.
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What AS does is deliberately and forcefully pointing at an inappropriate version of "semitism" in order to effectively turn the term unusable. Doesn't matters if this was used as a self identification, AS don't want to have the label used against them
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