EHRC to write to the Conservative Party re Islamophobia

krish

okay so you're taking just one literal use of that suffix like our other member does with homophobia

my usual response is that it also means anti or to repel - which is its usage in science, especially chemistry and biochemistry ...

I'll just c&p Wikipedia ...

robel

So why bring it up??strange

robel

But isnt that going to be an issue??your explaining using an alternative and intelligent definition but would most people use it in reference to that definition?

Surely it just causes confusion especially when there are many people and groups around the world who have genuine cause for concern.

Anti Semitism isnt a fear or irrational fear of Jews. Anti Semitism is a hatred or in most cases an irrational hatred of Jews.

weaviemx5

I assume you read my post when you quoted it? Cliff seemed to be suggesting that giving a single religion its own definition would make it “special” so I asked what does that mean for anti-semitism?

robel

Firstly you need to take that up with Cliff.

Secondly Anti Semitism was a phrase coined maybe 100 or so years ago by a German and is specific towards Jews.

And given the millennia of Jew hatred, murder and genocide....

weaviemx5

I was responding to cliff to ask him, you quoted me

IronGiant

Please can we try and stick to the thread title, thanks.

robel

And i totally get what youre saying about homophobia, i have plenty of gay friends and so have witnessed it.

But maybe that term is also wrong because ultimately its a hatred rather than a fear or a phobia.

I just think we need more basic terms where there can be no confusion.

Cliff

Well, antisemitism is a hatred of Jews i.e. a race of people. Islamophobia is about religion. Could be any race.

weaviemx5

“Jewish” is both a religion and an ethnicity.

A quick search also suggests there are already a whole host of “anti-“ terms, including anti-semitism (Jews as a race) and Judeophobia (Judaism as a religion);

List of anti-cultural, anti-national, and anti-ethnic terms - Wikipedia