• Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      18·
      6 days ago

      however, the name Semitic is a nazi invention that was originally directed towards Jews. part of their scientific racism.

      it’s kind of meaningless.

      like Dwight claiming an Indian coworkers is Caucasian because he claims her people came from the Caucasus.

      but yhea, if we step out of semantics, fuck Israel for this genocide and using the Jewish diaspora as shields.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        ^^^Yes, more people need to know about this because it’s a meaningless “gotcha”

        • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
          3·
          6 days ago

          however, I’ll prefer if we included all Semitic people in the term.

          because in a way, they are all related people.

          Palestinians are ancestors of the ancient Canaanites just like jews are (if we ignore a lot of mixing with other genepools).

    • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 days ago

      More importantly, it’s used inappropriately when talking about violence towards/hatred of the vaaaaaaaast majority of Israelis because they’re Europeans…

      • Ghosthacked@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        The people that should be hearing this won’t accept it as truth. They actively deny the Eastern European heritage of ashkenazi Jews.

        • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 days ago

          Are you alright? You can definitely say they’re African (or anything more precise like “West African” or “from the Horn of Africa”) by ethnicity, they’re just American by nationality. What else would you say? The white folks in America are European by ethnicity (mostly Germanic) and American by nationality, and their nationality didn’t just randomly turn them Native American, lol. Hopefully you were just being silly and not willfully spreading confusion…