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I was born in 1943 when Hitler was STILL gassing Jews. If not for my grandparents decision to leave Poland, I'd be DEAD today.. In my stead, 6,000,000 people died.
My life has been committed to stamping out Jew haters wherever I find them.
I wanna EXPOSE him. Been doing that for 6 years on another website.
Lmfao. Oh, you are so delusional it's practically endearing. For the last 6 years you have been making false claims about being Jewish and for the last 6 years I and every other member of that "website" has been meticulously embarrassing you for making those same false claims. You're an atheist who for 6 full years repeatedly cited a bunk ancestry test as "scientific proof" of being Jewish, to the delight of a dozen other members who systematically tore apart your ruse, until you were finally left with nowhere else to go other than:-
A. Admitting you are a fraud.
B. Rabidly accusing a dozen different people of anti-Semitism for the sole reason that they patiently tried to explain to you that you aren't Jewish.
You are an absolute, unequivocal charlatan, Excon. You're a truly nasty piece of work who lies about himself continuously for clout and attacks anybody who interferes. The world will not miss you when you are gone you coward.
Commercial DNA tests that claim to tell people whether they are related to Richard III or descended from the Vikings are no more than "genetic astrology", scientists have warned.
Are Palestinian haters ok with you? Your new buddy Cornfed admitted yesterday watching Palestinians being blown to shreds is enjoyable , you ok with that?
I kept Cornfeds hate piece admittance of watching Israel bomb Palestians bringing him pleasure which is a banning offence under site rules , if you ever need it just ask
I call fallacy because some
kinds of lack of organized understanding have to be paid for and doesn’t' come
for free...as suggested by the loos word friend and friendship...
I don't know you.. We've never met.. Consequently, you simply couldn't know that about me.. To say I'm NOT Jewish is wrong, hateful, antisemitic, and crazy beyond belief..
Consequently, you simply couldn't know that about me..
Oh, I couldn't? That's strange, because I know that you're an atheist and you somehow are intellectually backwards enough to believe that you're Jewish because a private, profit-making Israeli business, described by 100 percent of reviewers as a scam, sold you a "meaningless" ancestry test which claimed you are distantly related to a group of Muslims who converted to the Jewish religion 500 years ago.
You are absolutely PATHETIC. You are no more Jewish than I am a Catholic.
Consequently, you simply couldn't know that about me..
Oh, I couldn't? That's strange, because I know that you're an atheist
Hello:
Telling a Jew how to BE a Jew is problematic. It's understandable, of course, because Christians can't BE Christians unless they BELIEVE like Christians. It's a requirement. And, you'd like to impress that requirement upon the Jews..
However, Jews don't have any such requirement.. In fact, in the book of Jewish law, the Talmud, it says in order to BE a Jew, one doesn't have to BELIEVE like a Jew, one has to ACT like a Jew.
However, Jews don't have any such requirement.. In fact, in the book of Jewish law, the Talmud, it says in order to BE a Jew, one doesn't have to BELIEVE like a Jew,
Oh Jesus Christ, why are you SUCH A MORON?
You can't use the "laws" of a religion YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN to qualify yourself as belonging to that religion. That's the most RIDICULOUS circular reasoning imaginable. The Talmud is the Jewish book of RELIGIOUS law, you absurdly dishonest cretin:-
The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology.
Someone is considered Jewish if they were born to a Jewish mother, if they have converted to Judaism, or if their parents converted to Judaism and raised the individual as a Jew.
It has nothing to do with belief. An atheist can be Jewish.
Someone is considered Jewish if they were born to a Jewish mother
No, the Jewish religion considers someone Jewish if they were born to a Jewish mother. You can't use Jewish religious beliefs to define the identity of people who are not part of the Jewish religion. That's offensively dumb. According to the church of scientology I'm a Thetan, but I don't identify myself as a Thetan because I'm not a scientologist. You see how common sense works, you absurd individual?
@Nomenclature Jews are both an ethnic group and a religion. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people, which has been practiced for thousands of years. Jews are also an ethnic group, with a shared history, culture, and language.
Any culture which shares a common language is an ethnic group you infuriatingly thick waste of time. Jews are not an ethnic group in the way you are describing them to be. They are not connected by racial characteristics or genetics. There are black African Jews, Japanese Jews and even Eskimo Jews. Anybody who converts to Judaism can become a Jew. Literally anybody. I cannot believe this actually needs to be explained to you. Get your face out of Wikipedia and learn how to think for yourself.
No, they cannot, you intellectually redundant halfwit. Judaism is a religion, not a race. Being born to a Jewish mother and speaking Hebrew makes me no more of a Jew than being born to an Islamic mother and speaking Arabic makes me a Muslim.
It's precisely epic distortions of reality like this which earned Jews their reputation in the first place. They are not content to be just another religion. They want -- demand, in fact -- special status among religions.
I apologize. I should accept your incoherent babbling over Britannica.
You should accept basic common sense over namedropping a source you didn't even use.
Judaism is a religion. It isn't a racial group or even an ethnicity in the sense you are using the word.
Zionist fanatics have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to obfuscate the facts of what it means to be Jewish, because it benefits them to do so. Ethnic groups are afforded protected characteristics under international law that religious groups are not. It is this infuriating sophism which enables Israeli leaders to brand those critical of their actions and/or policies as anti-Semitic. It's Hitler's big lie on steroids, because the overwhelming majority of Jews are not Semites in the first place. They are the descendants of European converts to Judaism. Conversely, the people they persecute everyday (i.e. Palestinian Arabs) ARE Semites. Hence, Israel has somehow convinced much of the world that criticism of their persecution of Semites is anti-Semitism.
@Nomenclature The word "antisemite" was first used in the 1870s in Germany, derived from the German word "Antisemitismus." It was used to describe prejudice and discrimination against Jews. The term was later adopted in other languages, including English, to describe similar attitudes and behaviors towards Jews.
This is completely pointless. I've explained why you're objectively wrong using simple and clear reasoning, but you're refusing to address the arguments I've provided and are simply spamming a list of names. You're not debating anything. You're simply repeating the exact same mythology I've just refuted.
It truly isn't complicated to understand. The idea that you're Jewish if your mother is Jewish is a religious idea. It comes from Jewish religious scripture and it has no basis in objective reality. Therefore, the idea of being a Jewish atheist is self-contradictory, because you have to believe Jewish religious scripture in order to believe having a Jewish mother makes you Jewish. In which universe is that concept difficult to grasp?
I'll let the "Jewish" president of the Society of American Atheists explain it to you, in the vain hope that anything vaguely resembling common sense can find a hole in that rock thick skull of yours:-
They are not Jews, they are children of Jews. Just as I am not a Jew, I am a child of Jews.
The word "antisemite" was first used in the 1870s in Germany, derived from the German word "Antisemitismus." It was used to describe prejudice and discrimination against Jews.
Literally everything you ever write is wrong. Stop writing and start paying attention to what other people say. The words I used in my post were "Semite", "anti-Semitic" and "anti-Semitism".
1797, denoting the major language group that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, etc., distinguished by triliteral verbal roots and vowel inflection; 1826 as "of or pertaining to Semites," from Medieval Latin Semiticus (source of Spanish semitico, French semitique, German semitisch), from Semita (see Semite).
As a noun, as the name of a linguistic family, from 1813. In non-linguistic use, it is perhaps directly from German semitisch. In recent use often with the specific sense "Jewish," but not historically so delimited.
Not etymologically restricted to anti-Jewish theories, actions, or policies, but almost always used in this sense. Those who object to the inaccuracy of the term might try Hermann Adler's Judaeophobia (1881).
@Nomenclature Let's focus on one case: Was Golda Meir Jewish? Do you agree she was born to a Jewish mother? Did she become non-Jewish because of her atheism? When exactly did she lose her Jewishness?
This contributor explains the matter particularly well:-
There is no such thing as an Atheist Jew. Quite a few Jews or more accurately ex Jews identify as such to hang on to the identity without being honest about the nature of so called "cultural Jewishness". The problem with this semantic gymnastic is that there is no such thing as a collection of Jewish cultural practices that is in any way removed from the religious rituals and beliefs. This is the glaring hole in the argument of being an atheist in a context of theistic practices. You can go through the motions of Jewish religious rituals by being a non believer but that only makes you an impostor, a pretender. Someone actively falsifying their own participation. You maintain your group status as Jew while actively disbelieving the very aspects that make a Jew.
Your article reports David Silverman believes there are no Jewish foods.
If you want to grow up a little bit and stop deflecting every single thing I write into something completely unrelated and pointless, I'll be happy to talk further. Until then, I'm just going to put you on my "not interested in debate" list.
@Nomenclature Antisemitism refers to prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The word "antisemitism" means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. Not Arabs. Not Canadians. Not Martians.
Your article reports David Silverman believes there are no Jewish foods.
If you want to grow up a little bit and stop deflecting every single thing I write into something completely unrelated and pointless, I'll be happy to talk further. Until then, I'm just going to put you on my "not interested in debate" list.
It's called muting, genius. I'll enjoy not seeing your babble.
Antisemitism refers to prejudice against or hatred of Jews.
You're ignoring the rebuttals I write and either repeating yourself as if they don't exist, or slightly changing your argument each time I refute the previous one. It's absolutely idiotic. I've literally just proven to you that anti-Semitism is not restricted to prejudice against Jews. See:-
Semite (n.)
1847, "a Jew, Arab, Assyrian, or Aramaean".
Semitic (adj.)
1797, denoting the major language group that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, etc., distinguished by triliteral verbal roots and vowel inflection; 1826 as "of or pertaining to Semites," from Medieval Latin Semiticus (source of Spanish semitico, French semitique, German semitisch), from Semita (see Semite).
As a noun, as the name of a linguistic family, from 1813. In non-linguistic use, it is perhaps directly from German semitisch. In recent use often with the specific sense "Jewish," but not historically so delimited.
anti-Semitism (n.) Not etymologically restricted to anti-Jewish theories, actions, or policies, but almost always used in this sense. Those who object to the inaccuracy of the term might try Hermann Adler's Judaeophobia (1881).
I posted 8 major DICTIONARIES supporting my claim. You posted none.
I can only presume that you're delusional. Your argument was:-
The word "antisemite" was first used in the 1870s in Germany, derived from the German word "Antisemitismus." It was used to describe prejudice and discrimination against Jews. The term was later adopted in other languages, including English, to describe similar attitudes and behaviors towards Jews.
I debunked that, and then you changed your argument to:-
Post a definition of "antisemitism" from a DICTIONARY that contradicts me
I did that, and then you changed your argument to:-
Stop babbling and post a definition from a real DICTIONARY
Then you went back 12 minutes afterwards and edited your initial post, after I'd already replied to it, adding a bunch of links with no relevance to what you'd asked me to do.
You're dumber than a barn door and more dishonest than Hitler.
You asked me to post one dictionary definition which contradicted you and that's exactly what I did. You didn't ask me for eight dictionary definitions.
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Argument Topic: Hey Genius
@Nomenclature The largest online dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) which is available through the Oxford University Press website and other platforms such as Oxford Learner's Dictionaries and Lexico.com (powered by Oxford). OED is considered to be the most comprehensive and authoritative English language dictionary, and it contains definitions and etymology for over 600,000 words.
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Lmfao. Oh, you are so delusional it's practically endearing. For the last 6 years you have been making false claims about being Jewish and for the last 6 years I and every other member of that "website" has been meticulously embarrassing you for making those same false claims. You're an atheist who for 6 full years repeatedly cited a bunk ancestry test as "scientific proof" of being Jewish, to the delight of a dozen other members who systematically tore apart your ruse, until you were finally left with nowhere else to go other than:-
A. Admitting you are a fraud.
B. Rabidly accusing a dozen different people of anti-Semitism for the sole reason that they patiently tried to explain to you that you aren't Jewish.
You are an absolute, unequivocal charlatan, Excon. You're a truly nasty piece of work who lies about himself continuously for clout and attacks anybody who interferes. The world will not miss you when you are gone you coward.
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Du-de! Bwa, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Harm none, but take no .
Be kind.
Believe as many true things as possible, and as few false things as possible.
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Hello imbecile.
Sorry, but those DNA tests you took are mostly bu-llshit
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https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-test-start-ups-are-pretty-much-scams-here-s-why
Commercial DNA tests that claim to tell people whether they are related to Richard III or descended from the Vikings are no more than "genetic astrology", scientists have warned.
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Are you going to repeatedly accuse all of the above of anti-Semitism, like you do to me, you disgusting little worm?
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I had RickeyD banned. You're next, big shot.
No you didn't Corn fed , a Jewish ......who would have thought ?
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Are Palestinian haters ok with you? Your new buddy Cornfed admitted yesterday watching Palestinians being blown to shreds is enjoyable , you ok with that?
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I kept Cornfeds hate piece admittance of watching Israel bomb Palestians bringing him pleasure which is a banning offence under site rules , if you ever need it just ask
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Why don't you do yourself a favour and stop talking for once in your life?
You're not Jewish, and sticking your fingers in your ears every time that fact is explained to you only makes you look like the imbecile you are.
Zip your intellectually stunted motor mouth and go away. You're 80 years old and I've literally met 13 year olds who are more emotionally mature.
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I call fallacy because some kinds of lack of organized understanding have to be paid for and doesn’t' come for free...as suggested by the loos word friend and friendship...
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For God's sake shut your intellectually backwards mouth. I've never met Hitler either, but I know he wasn't a socialist. Funny how that works.
For six long years you've been lying about being Jewish. It's pathetic. PATHETIC.
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Oh, I couldn't? That's strange, because I know that you're an atheist and you somehow are intellectually backwards enough to believe that you're Jewish because a private, profit-making Israeli business, described by 100 percent of reviewers as a scam, sold you a "meaningless" ancestry test which claimed you are distantly related to a group of Muslims who converted to the Jewish religion 500 years ago.
You are absolutely PATHETIC. You are no more Jewish than I am a Catholic.
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Hello pretend Jew and your pretend Jewish buddy Cornfed who admitted the blowing up of Palestinians gives him pleasure
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Hahahaha! Are you even for real?
Falsely claiming to be a Jew, simply because YOU SAY you are a Jew, is problematic. That's not how it works.
You're utterly pathetic.
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Oh Jesus Christ, why are you SUCH A MORON?
You can't use the "laws" of a religion YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN to qualify yourself as belonging to that religion. That's the most RIDICULOUS circular reasoning imaginable. The Talmud is the Jewish book of RELIGIOUS law, you absurdly dishonest cretin:-
The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
Judaism is LITERALLY a system of belief. Therefore, what you are saying is: I DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE IN THIS BELIEF IN ORDER TO BELIEVE IN THIS BELIEF.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for anybody to say anything MORE self-contradictory and idiotic.
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Someone is considered Jewish if they were born to a Jewish mother, if they have converted to Judaism, or if their parents converted to Judaism and raised the individual as a Jew.
It has nothing to do with belief. An atheist can be Jewish.
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No, the Jewish religion considers someone Jewish if they were born to a Jewish mother. You can't use Jewish religious beliefs to define the identity of people who are not part of the Jewish religion. That's offensively dumb. According to the church of scientology I'm a Thetan, but I don't identify myself as a Thetan because I'm not a scientologist. You see how common sense works, you absurd individual?
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@Nomenclature
Jews are both an ethnic group and a religion. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people, which has been practiced for thousands of years. Jews are also an ethnic group, with a shared history, culture, and language.
Again, Jews can be atheists. Many are.
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Any culture which shares a common language is an ethnic group you infuriatingly thick waste of time. Jews are not an ethnic group in the way you are describing them to be. They are not connected by racial characteristics or genetics. There are black African Jews, Japanese Jews and even Eskimo Jews. Anybody who converts to Judaism can become a Jew. Literally anybody. I cannot believe this actually needs to be explained to you. Get your face out of Wikipedia and learn how to think for yourself.
Genetic markers cannot determine Jewish descent
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No, they cannot, you intellectually redundant halfwit. Judaism is a religion, not a race. Being born to a Jewish mother and speaking Hebrew makes me no more of a Jew than being born to an Islamic mother and speaking Arabic makes me a Muslim.
It's precisely epic distortions of reality like this which earned Jews their reputation in the first place. They are not content to be just another religion. They want -- demand, in fact -- special status among religions.
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@Nomenclature
I apologize. I should accept your incoherent babbling over Britannica.
Sure, you genius at research.
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You should accept basic common sense over namedropping a source you didn't even use.
Judaism is a religion. It isn't a racial group or even an ethnicity in the sense you are using the word.
Zionist fanatics have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to obfuscate the facts of what it means to be Jewish, because it benefits them to do so. Ethnic groups are afforded protected characteristics under international law that religious groups are not. It is this infuriating sophism which enables Israeli leaders to brand those critical of their actions and/or policies as anti-Semitic. It's Hitler's big lie on steroids, because the overwhelming majority of Jews are not Semites in the first place. They are the descendants of European converts to Judaism. Conversely, the people they persecute everyday (i.e. Palestinian Arabs) ARE Semites. Hence, Israel has somehow convinced much of the world that criticism of their persecution of Semites is anti-Semitism.
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Some well-known Jewish atheists:
- Woody Allen
- Moshe Dayan
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Golda Meir
- David Ben-Gurion
- Stanley Kubrick
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Randy Newman
- Larry King
- Howard Stern
- Arthur Miller
- Isaac Asimov
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Franz Kafka
- Primo Levi
- Ayn Rand
- Carl Sagan
- Marvin Minsky
- Norbert Wiener
- Richard Feynman
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Sam Harris
- Christopher Hitchens
- David Silverman (current president of American Atheists)
- Herman Kahn
- Erich Fromm
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The word "antisemite" was first used in the 1870s in Germany, derived from the German word "Antisemitismus." It was used to describe prejudice and discrimination against Jews. The term was later adopted in other languages, including English, to describe similar attitudes and behaviors towards Jews.
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This is completely pointless. I've explained why you're objectively wrong using simple and clear reasoning, but you're refusing to address the arguments I've provided and are simply spamming a list of names. You're not debating anything. You're simply repeating the exact same mythology I've just refuted.
It truly isn't complicated to understand. The idea that you're Jewish if your mother is Jewish is a religious idea. It comes from Jewish religious scripture and it has no basis in objective reality. Therefore, the idea of being a Jewish atheist is self-contradictory, because you have to believe Jewish religious scripture in order to believe having a Jewish mother makes you Jewish. In which universe is that concept difficult to grasp?
I'll let the "Jewish" president of the Society of American Atheists explain it to you, in the vain hope that anything vaguely resembling common sense can find a hole in that rock thick skull of yours:-
They are not Jews, they are children of Jews. Just as I am not a Jew, I am a child of Jews.
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Literally everything you ever write is wrong. Stop writing and start paying attention to what other people say. The words I used in my post were "Semite", "anti-Semitic" and "anti-Semitism".
Semite (n.)
1847, "a Jew, Arab, Assyrian, or Aramaean".
Semitic (adj.)
1797, denoting the major language group that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Assyrian, etc., distinguished by triliteral verbal roots and vowel inflection; 1826 as "of or pertaining to Semites," from Medieval Latin Semiticus (source of Spanish semitico, French semitique, German semitisch), from Semita (see Semite).
As a noun, as the name of a linguistic family, from 1813. In non-linguistic use, it is perhaps directly from German semitisch. In recent use often with the specific sense "Jewish," but not historically so delimited.
anti-Semitism (n.)
Not etymologically restricted to anti-Jewish theories, actions, or policies, but almost always used in this sense. Those who object to the inaccuracy of the term might try Hermann Adler's Judaeophobia (1881).
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Semite
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Let's focus on one case: Was Golda Meir Jewish? Do you agree she was born to a Jewish mother? Did she become non-Jewish because of her atheism? When exactly did she lose her Jewishness?
Don't answer with a babbling rant as usual.
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Your article reports David Silverman believes there are no Jewish foods. Yet he likes latkes and matzo balls. Another genius...lol.
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This contributor explains the matter particularly well:-
There is no such thing as an Atheist Jew. Quite a few Jews or more accurately ex Jews identify as such to hang on to the identity without being honest about the nature of so called "cultural Jewishness". The problem with this semantic gymnastic is that there is no such thing as a collection of Jewish cultural practices that is in any way removed from the religious rituals and beliefs. This is the glaring hole in the argument of being an atheist in a context of theistic practices. You can go through the motions of Jewish religious rituals by being a non believer but that only makes you an impostor, a pretender. Someone actively falsifying their own participation. You maintain your group status as Jew while actively disbelieving the very aspects that make a Jew.
https://agnostic.com/discussion/8814/is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-athiest-jew
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I don't know who that is, and since you're too lazy to make any sort of coherent argument I think this conversation is pretty much over.
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If you want to grow up a little bit and stop deflecting every single thing I write into something completely unrelated and pointless, I'll be happy to talk further. Until then, I'm just going to put you on my "not interested in debate" list.
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Antisemitism refers to prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The word "antisemitism" means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. Not Arabs. Not Canadians. Not Martians.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anti-semitism
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You're ignoring the rebuttals I write and either repeating yourself as if they don't exist, or slightly changing your argument each time I refute the previous one. It's absolutely idiotic. I've literally just proven to you that anti-Semitism is not restricted to prejudice against Jews. See:-
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Post a definition of "antisemitism" from a DICTIONARY that contradicts me.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anti-semitism
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Literally the first result on Google:-
Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews.
https://www.wordnik.com/words/anti-semitism
If Jews were the only Semites, then the dictionary wouldn't have to clarify by saying "especially Jews", would it?
A Semite is anybody who speaks a Semitic language you incomprehensible dummy.
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/anti-semitism
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisemitism
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/antisemitism
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/anti-semite
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/anti-semitism?q=antisemitism
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/anti-semitism?q=antisemitism
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/anti-Semitism
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I'm not even remotely interested in your hopelessly infantile "No True Scotsman" fallacies.
I've proven you wrong twice now, using your own parameters. If you don't want to accept it then I can't force you.
Obama and I are just gonna sit back and laugh at how badly you were schooled.
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I posted 8 major DICTIONARIES supporting my claim. You posted none. Whose claim is valid? Gotcha!
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I can only presume that you're delusional. Your argument was:-
I debunked that, and then you changed your argument to:-
I did that, and then you changed your argument to:-
Then you went back 12 minutes afterwards and edited your initial post, after I'd already replied to it, adding a bunch of links with no relevance to what you'd asked me to do.
You're dumber than a barn door and more dishonest than Hitler.
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For once in your sad little life tell the truth. Wordnik is, by number of words, the largest dictionary on the entire internet.
Wordnik is the world's biggest online English dictionary, by number of words.
https://www.wordnik.com/about
You asked me to post one dictionary definition which contradicted you and that's exactly what I did. You didn't ask me for eight dictionary definitions.
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The largest online dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) which is available through the Oxford University Press website and other platforms such as Oxford Learner's Dictionaries and Lexico.com (powered by Oxford). OED is considered to be the most comprehensive and authoritative English language dictionary, and it contains definitions and etymology for over 600,000 words.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/anti-semitism?q=antisemitism
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Do you have some kind of learning disability?
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Wordnik is busy hunting through 361 billion words of English for a million ones not yet in any dictionary.
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Search wordnik for the difference between a box and shed.
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