If You Take Sides In This 'War' You Are By Definition "Anti-Semitic"

[matcom]

Main Entry: Sem·ite
Pronunciation: 'se-"mIt, especially British 'sE-"mIt
Function: noun
Etymology: French sémite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm
1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : a descendant of these peoples
2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language


yup. it's a great Futbol game. And YOU and the FREEPERS have a LOT in common. This one is sure to end Nil-Nil, so go ahead. Pick a side. Why are YOU Anti-Semitic?

Look mom! No F-Bombs!

[CatWoman]

1. stop all your fussing

and give me a kiss!!

:hi:

:loveya:

[matcom]

2. leave me alone Wench!

i'm trying to finish up the painting of your house!

[Midlodemocrat]

5. And what a lovely job you are doing. Wanna paint mine next?

:P

[matcom]

9. finished yours about an hour ago

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Yup. That's my house. Did you get the 10yo to pick the color?

[karlrschneider]

13. Heliotrope and baby-shit. I love those colors!

:D :crazy:

[CatWoman]

7. AACK!!!!!

:rofl:

[dufrenne]

3. Nice

verbal gymnastics, but the term, as it's popularly used, refers to anti-jewish. Technically you're correct, but then again, technically, we don't think seahorses are actually horses either. But I get your point.

[matcom]

6. some of us regard language for its true meaning

some of you like the O'Reilly definitions as they suit your social and political purpose.

[dufrenne]

12. What is my political purpose?

Sorry, but as a semite myself (of the non-jewish kind), I don't go calling people that don't like me anti-semitic. Stop being so self-righteous. Yes, exact langauage is important, but quibbling about what anti-semitic means is crap in light of what it has evolved to mean. I.e. words and their meanings change over time. Or do you still remark "how gay" when describing a happy time?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. What do you call the people that don't like your people?

I mean in intellectual sense. Not just "shit head" or something.

[dufrenne]

17. Well,

I'm not muslim, but islamaphobe seems to be the general term. Anti-arab etc..

I've never heard anti-semitic though.


Although shithead sounds about right as well.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. OK, but how often do you hear "anti-jew?"

Which is what people usually mean when they say "anti-semite."

I can't speak for Matcom, but I think that his point is that arabs and jews are essentially the same people and that hatred of one is (im)morally equivalent to the hatred of the other.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. OK, but if you take sides aren't you also pro-semitic?

:P

[Dr Fate]

8. They should all just screw each other and be done with it. n/t

n/t

[robcon]

11. Nonsense.

One could wonder why you want to change the meaning of a common word. I think I know, but that would be speculation.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Etymologically he's right.

He's not changing anything.

[matcom]

18. didn't change a thing

www.webster.com is your friend in this case. ignorance is a disease.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. I was wondering when someone would point this out

I'm glad it was you, matcom! :hug:

[oberliner]

20. AntiSemitism

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-semitism

Despite the use of the prefix "anti," the terms Semitic and Anti-Semitic are not antonyms. To avoid the confusion of the misnomer, many scholars on the subject (such as Emil Fackenheim of the Hebrew University) now favor the unhyphenated term antisemitism. Yehuda Bauer articulated this view in his writings and lectures: (the term) "Antisemitism, especially in its hyphenated spelling, is inane nonsense, because there is no Semitism that you can be anti to.")<6><7>

The term anti-Semitism has historically referred to prejudice towards Jews alone, and this was the only use of this word for more than a century. It does not traditionally refer to prejudice toward other people who speak Semitic languages (e.g. Arabs or Assyrians). Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies

[The Magistrate]

21. Locking

Flame-Bait.