Semite - refers to a language family native to West Asia, Northeast Africa and Malta
The fact that Antisemite was 'chosen' by a German as a word to describe "Jew Hatred" does not detract from the fact that Semite is NOT exclusively relating to Jews...
Hence, to be Antisemitic you have to 'hate' a LOT of people!
15 million is a LOT of people and indeed "Semite" does not refer exclusively to Jews but the term "anti-Semite" very specifically does. If that distresses you, take it up with the dictionary people or just get over it:
Anti-Semitism - noun
: hatred of Jewish people
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
I'd add to that last, an unhealthy pathological obsession with Jews.
Which they try to rationalize as anti-Israelism but is generally just anti-Semitism wrapped in sanctimony. The one in this conversation can't even come to grips with the M/W Dictionary definition for the term "anti-Semitism."
And the OP wonders where the civility went. Too funny.
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