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    23 hours ago

    This is a common refrain online but doesn’t really make sense.

    Antisemitism means prejudice against Jewish people.

    Separately, the technical term “semitic” is used to mean a subgroup of related afro-asiatic languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, Phonecian, Assyrian, et al.

    The fact that the word for prejudice against Jews contains a root word that refers to a different classification is just one of those weird language things - antisemitism has only ever meant prejudice against Jews.