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  • No on both accounts. You’re wrong, both in your attempt to regulate my language and your assertion.

    You can literally find (actual real non-AI) footage of people being close enough to the explosion that they should be terrified, but they’re elated instead.


  • When I was 14, I also wisecracked that, but then

    1. I learned that linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one: meaning correspond to usage, not what a word is “supposed” to mean
    2. I realized that words often have meanings that don’t correspond to their literal translation

    So no, antisemitism doesn’t refer to any semitic tribes that aren’t Jewish.