how i think about it—which is not to say i'm hating on random people from the mediterranean who have adopted the rational notion that the phoenicians were pretty dope, and associate the standard linguistics term for the language group used for those folks, with those folks, instead of with billy boy
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"It's not antisemitism because arabs are semites too"
There are many semitic peoples, but "antisemitism" is about anti-jewishness
Coined by 19th c. German bigot Wilhelm Marr, let's take a look and see what old Wilhelm meant when he said "semite"
From "The Victory of Judaism over Germanism" (1879)
