I’m not hear to talk about Palestine, Hezbollah, or Iran. I mean in general, objectively, it’s getting thrown around so much, for reasons that do not seem antisemetic in nature.
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Yes.
Now that it’s been redefined to include any criticism of Israel, as if all Jews are Israeli; People don’t care about it as much.It’s because the heritage foundation started using it to attack Palestine supporters. including Jewish ones.
I mean we are at a point that if you don’t support a genocide you are being called antisemitic.
Ah yes, I remember when the holocaust happened and all the victims said “let’s do this again” /s
Not the victims, just a comparatively small subsection of their grandchildren.
I know, I was using sarcasm to make fun of genocidal Zionists who hide behind the holocaust
It’s been weaponized and it’s being used as a shield. Of course it’s going to lose its meaning.
Wasn’t that obvious when people that say they don’t tolerate genocide, without even mentioning israel, are automatically labeled as antisemites?
The “antisemitism” brand is just a way to keep playing victim. They sow both fabricated AND real antisemitism.
The fabricated one is used to blow numbers out of proportion. The real antisemitism is used by individual example.
In the end, Israel is the self-made innocent.
Always fun to remember people that Israel is antisemitic because Palestinians would also be counted as Semites and also that Semite is a borderline racist, best-case oversimplifying term. The cherry on top is that is was coined in Germany
Not just its punch, it’s lost its meaning.
People use it as a shortcut to shut a conversation down.
TikTok showed Americans what was happening for like 6 months and all the Zionist propaganda lost its punch. And European Jews are not Semites (while Palestinians are) but that’s a different convo, lol.
Probably. Over the years, I’ve noticed that some words just seem to catch on amongst people on social media, and it’s like their meaning expands and it gets diluted over time. Words like “Nazi”, “trauma”, and “gaslight” used to carry more weight in the past too.
I suppose it doesn’t only happen with negative words like those though. I remember when the word “literally” lost its meaning too
In short, yes.
Its not just lost its punch, its almost gone around to being a badge of honor at this point.
Yup
That and many other terms like it have gone through a lot of concept creep. People just keep stretching the label to include more and more things, which makes it lose its clear definition. That then incentivizes fights where one person uses the loose version and the other sticks to the strict one, so we can’t even agree on what’s going on in the world anymore.
There’s a whole list of terms like that. They’ve been so mis- and overused that the moment I see someone using them unironically, my eyes just glaze over and all I hear is “Booo! I don’t like this.”
Has the word antisemite lost it’s punch?
Is isn’t punch.
That’s the point. They’ve cheapen the word so much that has no meaning whatsoever.
Not really the meat of your question, but in my opinion it already lost its punch at its creation, given its etymology. I wish we would have hit the reset button and clarify that when “Semites” and “antisemite” refer to only Jews, it’s only in the historical context of Nazi Germany. Sometimes I wonder, if I should simply use antisemitism for the hatred against Palestine, too, and that without any context or explanation.
