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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-11-08 05:48 pm

[ SECRET POST #2137 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2137 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2012-11-09 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Because the people who coined it had no reason to differentiate between the various Semitic groups. That doesn't stop the term from making little to no etymological sense in the context of Palestinians and Israelis. The same basic argument is constantly made about the term "American" by people from countries in the Americas that aren't the US: just because a term is commonly accepted in its narrowest definition does not negate its problematic nature nor strip it of its broader meaning.

(Anonymous) 2012-11-09 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you also have a problem with the term homophobia, since most people who are homophobic don't literally have a phobia of gays?

(Anonymous) 2012-11-09 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually they do, because the word homophobia has nothing to do with the "fear" definition of -phobia; it comes from the "averse to" definition of -phobia. As in a hydrophobic substance being a substance that repels water, for example.

(Anonymous) 2012-11-10 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's nice. Doesn't change the fact you're trying to redefine the term for bigotry against Jewish people so you don't have to call the Palestinians anti-semitic when they hate Jews.