• yetAnotherUser@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    What I am saying is:

    The meaning of words is defined by how they’re used. Antisemitic has never been used to refer to anything but hating Jews akin to how the n-word has been used as an insult instead of a neutral descriptor.

    You cannot use the n-word as a neutral descriptor, nor can you use the term antisemitism to describe hatred of non-Jewish ethnicities.

    • ShroOmeric@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      You just said that words are described by how people use them.

      So I’ll use that word like any other the way I prefer, and by doing that I’ll shape its meaning.

      See why it sounded dumb now?