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New Rule: Everything I don't like is antisemitic (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] LwL@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

"Race" for humans is a made up concept and "racism" has been used to refer to any kind of hating a group for their ethnicity. "Ethnicity" is a very ambiguously defined concept notably including shared attributes like nationality, language, history, religion, etc.

I, too, am not a fan of words being used incorrectly, but this is not an incorrect use of "racism".

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

but this is not an incorrect use of “racism”.

Israeli Citizenship is determined solely by religion. The only reason that a Palestinian can't be an Israeli citizen is they haven't converted to Judaism. That's religious discrimination.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_citizenship_law#:~:text=Every%20Jew%20has%20the%20unrestricted,one%20parent%20is%20a%20citizen.

Otherwise you'd also have to classify the Protestant vs Catholic wars in Europe as racist too.

[-] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As I stated, it is not incorrect to use the term racism for religious discrimination, especially not when it involves a religion you can't just join at will. What matters is moreso whether they see themselves as a seperate people from whoever they discriminate against.