yeah I hate it when people use the jew term "anti-semitic"
That bothered me as well. But then i realized we are anti-semitic. Much like the word racist we just need to own it.
There's two annoying things about it. The first is how it's forced into our lexicon, that's annoying enough. But almost equally annoying is the nonsense behind its etymology. "Semitic" is a language family applying to a broad range of historic peoples, including some historical jews, but mostly it's an antiquated word used by historians to describe a group that barely had anything in common. In the sense of the meaning of the words, it's almost impossible to be truly "anti-semitic" because how do you hate an ancient language family tree?
That just really grinds my gears, "anti-jew" would've served their purposes just fine but they have to corrupt language by using words to mean things completely unrelated to their dictionary meaning.
Semitic literally translates to "Son of Shem", however a more accurate translation is "received the blessings of Shem". Seeing as Judah did not receive Shem's blessings they are not Semitic.
That is irritating now that you point it out. Lol
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