I mean it was a matter of much discussion in the 19th century that "anti-Semite" was adopting their own terminology (*they* said there was such a thing as "Semitism" that they stood in opposition to) Hence the modern decision not to punctuate it ("antisemitism")https://twitter.com/CelticAnarchy/status/1293706909799809025 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @Dominic11B4 @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @Dominic11B4 @arthur_affect
I am partially aware about your stance on 1984 but, I think this is one of the truest examples of newspeak. As want to protect antisemitism by removing the terms that would identify the phenomenon. Their aims is a society where targeting Jews can't be articulated as a a thing.
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Well that's why the "euphemism treadmill" is a treadmill though, you just retaliate by taking their nice sounding term and making it a bad thing An "antisemite" is no longer a nice respectable thing to be called but a horrible thing to be called
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