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    5 hours ago

    Unfortunately, the term “antisemitic” no longer has any kind of fixed meaning. I wish that weren’t true, and I think it’s a combination of forces that decided to misuse the word for several decades, that have now led to it being meaningless.

    And you might be tempted to tell me what you think it means, and maybe I could agree with you, but when I turn on the TV tomorrow someone else will be using it in a totally different way that’s inconsistent. Actually I’m kidding. I don’t have a TV.

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      3 hours ago

      Words that people misuse are still meaningful when the reader and writer both understand the same meaning. I expect you understand OP perfectly well.

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        55 minutes ago

        Words that people misuse for the sake of propaganda are intentionally misleading, regardless of how any in-group understands it.

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          46 minutes ago

          Your use of the word “intentionally” is quite confusing to me. Intentionally misleading on whose part? The word’s part, or the in-group’s?