G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 But...yet again...the same dictionary defines antisemitism as hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group...which is what it means...and designed to mean by a proto-Nazi named Wilhelm Marr...as cited. Why do you wish to change the meaning of the word? It does mean that. It also means hostility toward or discrimination against Arabs as a religious, ethnic, or racial group as anti means opposed and Semitic includes Arabs.
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 It does mean that. It also means hostility toward or discrimination against Arabs as a religious, ethnic, or racial group as anti means opposed and Semitic includes Arabs. Webster's does not say that. Sorry. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) I posted it before so I won't post it again. The Websters definition of Semitic includes Arabs. Anti means opposed. Put two and two together or can you handle simple logic? Edited May 10, 2016 by G Huxley
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 I posted it before so I won't post it again. The Websters definition of Semitic includes Arabs. Anti means opposed. Put two and two together or can you handle simple logic? I understand that YOU want to make the term include Arabs. But that's not what it means. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 I already posted the dictionary definition of Semitic from Websters that says the word Semitic includes Arabs. Do I need to post it again?
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 I already posted the dictionary definition of Semitic from Websters that says the word Semitic includes Arabs. Do I need to post it again? Do I need to post the definition of antisemitism again? Why do you want to change the meaning of the word? Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 You are changing the meaning of the word by denying that the word Semitic applies to Arabs like it says in the Websters dictionary. Anti is simply a prefix meaning opposed that can be added to anything.
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) No...I copied Webster's definition of 'antisemitism' verbatim. You are free to find your own source that claims it equals Arabs as well as Jews. https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=antisemitism Edited May 10, 2016 by DogOnPorch Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
eyeball Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 ...a proto-Nazi named Wilhelm Marr... Wilhelm Adolph no less. So, a 19th century left-wing Nazi...that's one odd duck alright. I'm assuming this is a broken clock phenomenon and that it's simply this one single brainfart of his that you and Webster's hold so dear and near. I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) eyeball: hehehe Dogonporch: Webster's lies by omission. It defines Semitic as Jews and Arabs. And Anti as opposed. Anti+Semitic following Webster's own definition would include Arabs.Thus it seems obvious that both you and Websters have an engrained bias against Arabs. In that sense both you and Websters are antisemitic. Further proof of that is your admiration of Wilhelm Marr author of Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism, 1879). Edited May 10, 2016 by G Huxley
Bonam Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 What a stupid discussion. Words or expressions comprised of other words routinely have meanings that are different than the literal interpretation of their constituent parts would imply. What is this, grade 2?
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 Apparently. Everybody KNOWS what antisemitism means. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
eyeball Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 What a stupid discussion. Words or expressions comprised of other words routinely have meanings that are different than the literal interpretation of their constituent parts would imply. What is this, grade 2? No, it's politics in the 21st century - a new Tower of Babel. I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
The_Squid Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 The common use of the term "antisemitism" refers specifically to Jews. To argue otherwise with nothing to back up the claim other than splitting the word up into it's component parts is pretty dumb. It makes no sense whatsoever.
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 The common use of the term "antisemitism" refers specifically to Jews. To argue otherwise with nothing to back up the claim other than splitting the word up into it's component parts is pretty dumb. It makes no sense whatsoever. The poster's claim is that now Webster's Dictionary lies in order to further the Zionist agenda. But no antisemitism is on display here....no sir... Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
The_Squid Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 The poster's claim is that now Webster's Dictionary lies in order to further the Zionist agenda. That's tinfoil hat kind of stuff!
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 That's tinfoil hat kind of stuff! Sure....but I'm the one that gets banned to der Cooler. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
The_Squid Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) Sure....but I'm the one that gets banned to der Cooler. wearing a tinfoil hat isn't enough to get someone suspended/banned. Edited May 10, 2016 by The_Squid
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) wearing a tinfoil hat isn't enough to get someone suspended/banned. Not tin foil hats...for sure. Edited May 10, 2016 by DogOnPorch Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
GostHacked Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Posted May 10, 2016 Not tin foil hats...for sure. Thread drift and other asshattery, yes. Should get you come cooler time.
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 I made no mention of Zionists. The word Antisemitic includes both Jews and Arabs by definition as Anti means opposed and Semitic includes both Jews and Arabs despite what Dogonporch's favourite author of (The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism, 1879) considered it to mean.
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 Thread drift and other asshattery, yes. Should get you come cooler time. Off topic. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
DogOnPorch Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 I made no mention of Zionists. The word Antisemitic includes both Jews and Arabs by definition as Anti means opposed and Semitic includes both Jews and Arabs despite what Dogonporch's favourite author of (The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism, 1879) considered it to mean. DogOnPorch's 'favorite author' invented the word. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 Really? Sem is a person in the Torah, Koran and the Bible. Semites believe they are the sons of Sem, which includes both Jews and Arabs.Etymologicaly Sem is the Semitic word for Sun. So the word Semitic can be interpreted as 'People of the Sun.'
G Huxley Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 (edited) The modern sense of Semite goes back to August Schlozer in 1781. Not the proto-nazi Wilhelm Marr. Semite (n.) 1847, "a Jew, Arab, Assyrian, or Aramaean" (an apparently isolated use from 1797 refers to the Semitic language group), back-formation from Semitic or else from French Sémite (1845), from Modern Latin Semita, from Late Latin Sem "Shem," one of the three sons of Noah (Gen. x:21-30), regarded as the ancestor of the Semites (in old Bible-based anthropology), from Hebrew Shem. In modern sense said to have been first used by German historian August Schlözer in 1781. Edited May 10, 2016 by G Huxley
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