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?

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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.

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          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”

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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