DUmpMonkey shows how stupid they are...

[dutch508]

The interweb's mostest genius type types up a new DUmpmonkey classic.

Hating Arabs is antisemitism... (because alot of Arabs are muslims... or something...)

SummerSnow (4,889 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026140184

Semites...
A Semite is a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples, mostly originating in the Near East, including: Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Ammonites, Amorites, Arameans, Chaldeans, Canaanites (including Hebrews/Israelites/Jews/Samaritans and Phoenicians/Carthaginians), Eblaites, Dilmunites, Edomites, Amalekites, Turukku, Ethiopian Semites, Hyksos, Arabs, Nabateans, Maltese, Mandaeans, Mhallami, Moabites, Shebans, Meluhhans, Maganites, Ubarites, Sabians and Ugarites.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people


So, Arabs are Semetic people and hatred of Arabs is anti-semetic too.


had this argument with someone who hated  Arabs many who are Muslims and they were in shock and in denial oh and of course angry

 

He/she/it gets schools by smarter DUmpmonkies...

tammywammy (20,462 posts)
5. Since you're using Wiki....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled Anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group. A person who holds such positions is called an "antisemite". As Jews are an ethnoreligious group, antisemitism is generally considered a form of racism.

While the conjunction of the units anti, Semite and ism indicates antisemitism as being directed against all Semitic people, the term was popularized in Germany in 1873 as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"), although it had been used for at least two decades prior, and that has been its normal use since then. For the purposes of a 2005 U.S. governmental report, antisemitism was considered "hatred toward Jews—individually and as a group—that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and/or ethnicity."

Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire Jewish communities. Although the term did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is now also applied to historic anti-Jewish incidents. Notable instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine of 1648–1657, various pogroms in Imperial Russia between 1821 and 1906, the 1894–1906 Dreyfus affair in France, the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and Arab and Muslim involvement in the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.


And here's dictionary.com

Anti-Semitism
1. Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.


Others can be Semites, but anti-Semiticism is specifically about hatred of Jewish people.

SummerSnow (4,889 posts)
7. But why isn't it used toward any other Semitic people?

tammywammy (20,462 posts)
8. Bc the word is a misnomer.

From the wiki link provided in post #5:

Despite the use of the prefix anti-, the term "anti-Semitic" is not a direct opposite of "Semitic" which linguistically makes the term a misnomer. Within common, day to day usage, however, the terms "anti-Semitism" and "antisemitism" have accepted and specific use to describe prejudice against Jews alone and in general. This is despite the fact that there are other speakers of Semitic languages (e.g. Arabs, Ethiopians, or Assyrians) and that not all Jews speak a Semitic language.

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Historically the phrase has never meant all Semitic people, it specifically meant/means Jews. Twisting it to mean all Semitic people does not reflect well on the person trying to do so. 

[diesel driver]

 

DUmmie slap fight!!!!   

[Big Dog]

One word for the yellow snow primitive: 'homophobia'.

[Carl]

Wouldn`t the DUmbass attempt to redefine the term logically apply to Christians as well?
That would make the DUmp virtually 100% Anti Semite.

[DumbAss Tanker]

One word for the yellow snow primitive: 'homophobia'.

Yeah - literally being "Fear of mankind," or alternatively "Fear of the same."

...Which is definitely not what it means in the accepted modern jargon.

 

[Ptarmigan]

DUmmies are Dummies. 

You can learn a lot from a DUmmie.

Don't be a DUmmie.

[thundley4]

Yeah - literally being "Fear of mankind," or alternatively "Fear of the same."

...Which is definitely not what it means in the accepted modern jargon.

 

Even in its accepted form, it's still wrong. People are afraid of queers, but mostly just disgusted by their parades.

[obumazombie]

Whose mole is muddying the waters over there ?
You should be confirming their anti semitic suspicions and reassuring them they are never wrong.
Don't for get to re iterate that they are the smartest people to ever have lived.

[SVPete]

Well, if this/these DU-fools don't like the supposed imprecision they've "discovered" (and I've known about for 4 or 5 decades), maybe it's time for a more precise, accurate, and clear term. Maybe "Jew-Hater"? Or Jooooooo-Hater?!

Talk about mountainizing an anthill!