Timeline for Is it appropriate to use the term "Semite" for Muslims?
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 11:27 | history | edited | G. Bach | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2017 at 20:22 | comment | added | G. Bach | @Beanluc "It looks like you're saying that it's reasonable to criticize Judaism" I am saying that there is such a thing as reasonable criticism of Judaism. For example, criticizing the circumcision of infants for religious reasons or the punishment of stoning for adultery is perfectly reasonable. I'm not saying that anti-semitism is reasonable criticism of Judaism. The conflation between reasonable criticism and irrational racial bias happens because both a person adhering to Judaism and a person of Jewish ethnicity are referred to as "Jewish". | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | Beanluc | More precisely: It looks like you're saying that it's reasonable to criticize Judaism. That's what I was saying is "a new one". Whether or not the expression "anti-semitism" should be used to name that criticism isn't really anything I care about. | |
| Apr 3, 2017 at 16:48 | comment | added | Beanluc | Yeah, I didn't say anti-semitism was a reasonable criticism of religion. I pointed out that it appeared to me that you had. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 17:40 | comment | added | G. Bach | @Beanluc Anti-semitism is not a reasonable criticism of religion, it's a condemnation of people based on their race. In the case of Judaism, criticism of the religion is however often times interpreted as racial bias - just look at the debate around infant circumcision. That generates a racial taboo around a religious practice. | |
| Nov 21, 2016 at 0:32 | comment | added | Beanluc | "Anti-semitism" is considered a "reasonable criticism of [the Judaic] religion"? That's a new one. | |
| Nov 20, 2016 at 23:26 | vote | accept | Ellen Spertus | ||
| Nov 20, 2016 at 18:08 | history | answered | G. Bach | CC BY-SA 3.0 |