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I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

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https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/antisemitism/spelling-antisemitism

"The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) would like to address the spelling of the term 'antisemitism', often rendered as ‘anti-Semitism’. IHRA’s concern is that the hyphenated spelling allows for the possibility of something called ‘Semitism’, which not only legitimizes a form of pseudo-scientific racial classification that was thoroughly discredited by association with Nazi ideology, but also divides the term, stripping it from its meaning of opposition and hatred toward Jews."

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"The unhyphenated spelling is favored by many scholars and institutions in order to dispel the idea that there is an entity ‘Semitism’ which ‘anti-Semitism’ opposes. Antisemitism should be read as a unified term so that the meaning of the generic term for modern Jew-hatred is clear."

What you're doing is like arguing that anti-black racism doesn't exist because no-one has skin that is actually #000000 all over.

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