Netflix released the original show “Supacell” with new and original characters, but in the comments, right-wingers are complaining that the protagonists are black. The film quiet place day one was released and had a black protagonist. The character is new, original and coherent. Quiet Place is set in the USA black people exist in the USA, so what’s the problem? If they are going to complain anyway, then why do they ask to make new characters?

  • jaspersgroove@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    -Jean-Paul Sartre

    Replace ‘anti-semites’ with ‘right-wingers’, and there’s your answer

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s kind of accurate when you remember since the Palestinians are actually from the region, they’re a semitic people. The Europeans who immigrated to Israel are modern anti-semites and act per that quote.

          • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            Words have roots and meanings, and historical context. The term antisemitism (or Anti-Semitism) does and has always referred exclusively to hatred and persecution toward Jews. Swearing and stomping your feet about it will not change that.

            I’ve already provided a link to the definition. You are welcome to consult Wikipedia, Oxford, Cambridge, or any other credible dictionary of the English language and you will find the same. It’s under “A”

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Square/rectangle thing

          https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Semites

          Semite is an ethnic term, anyone can convert to Judaism, it doesn’t magically change their ethnicity.

          But words are defined how we use them. So we end up with the nonsense right now where Europeans are genociding Semites, but people get called anti-Semitic by the genociders for calling it a genocide.

          It’s all intentional too, fascists always use ass backwards language like this to obfuscate what they’re doing.

          Like how the Anti-Defamation League is running around advocating for genocide.

          Or how conservatives in America always say they’re pro-family or other dumb shit.

          It’s usually pretty easy to tell when someone’s fallen for it, their nationalism is usually so bad that they can’t say a single bad thing about their own government.

          Definitely couldn’t admit to an active genocide. They’d come up with some bullshit to downplay it