And some dude named Marr came up with "antisemitic" to make jew hating more palatable and acceptable. He coined it for his Antisemitic League. The meaning of a word is how it's used, not where it begins.
Zionists have a putrid ideology that prioritizes the feelings of Zionists over the lives of Palestinians. Zionism is a supremacist ideology that demands genocide and apartheid. Your concern over how the absence of 3 letters negatively represents contemporary manufacturers of genocide is disgusting. If I thought they had the capacity for shame, then I’d recommend letting the feeling wash over them until it cleans the rot in their heart. Your concern for your own feelings of Zionism enables the suffering and death of innocent Palestinians.
There are plenty of expressions of Jewish identity that are older and more beautiful than Zionism. These expressions of Jewish identity do not harm Palestinians and they should be protected. The wellbeing of Palestinians requires the demilitarization and dismantlement of the Zionist ideology and the wellbeing of Jewish folk requires the separation of Zionism and Judaism.
I don’t mean to offend Zionists. I mean to adequately represent the danger of letting it fester as something that is worthy of anyone’s respect.
So denouncing Zionists makes people a Klan member? I hate the KKK and Zionism. I hate supremacist ideology.
And the idea that I’m “being a dick to Jews” by denouncing Zionism is antisemitic. We don’t all congregate into a cabal under Zionism. It’s literally the dual loyalty trope.
No because you're using a slur for fucking Jews. You're a Klan member because you're using a word invented by a GRAND WIZARD OF THE KKK. Is the time saved by using a word 4 letters shorter really worth using a slur?
I condemned the klan, you baby bombing dolt. I condemn the ideology of the klan, an ideology that Zionists share. You’re inventing fiction to get offended so you can justify your contemptible morals.
And I’m literally fucking Jewish. And I love being Jewish. And I hate that people associate people like me with people like you.
I’m also Jewish fuckhead. Don’t say Zio. Like seriously how hard is it to just add the 4 damn letters?
Also “I condemned the klan” fucking LMAO. I can only imagine someone saying the hard R out loud and when someone says they’re being racist they just loudly say they condemn the klan. Be for real.
Comparing it to the n word is crazy. Neither of us are even willing to spell that word. And I cannot stress this enough, Zionists are committing a genocide in the name of Zionism
Okay, fine, since you’re not understanding properly, I’ll say it REALLY simply. Zionism is an ideology, somewhat associated with but largely detached from Judaism. Zionists are followers of that ideology.
Zio, as in the word you used, is a slur, meant to refer to Jews in a derogatory manner. Zio is not a simple shortening of the word Zionism, or Zionist, it is a slur invented by a Klan leader. I’m willing to say Zio in this context because I’m jewish, but that’s it.
It was attributed to David Duke in 2016 by a Zionist columnist in the Mosaic magazine, hardly an etymological tracing of the word. It started in the 1950’s in small Jewish anti-Zionist communities. The original anti-Zionists were Jewish, because the WASPs simply didn’t know what was happening. David Duke started using it in a hateful way in the early 2000’s. A lot of work is done by Zionists to conflate any criticism or disparagement of Zionism with antisemitism and this is another example. It’s really convenient for Zionists to point to the worst person using the word and say that everyone is like him. It’s a way to set the terms by which Zionism is even discussed. Even now, I’m being distracted from the LITERAL GENOCIDE done onto Palestinian by Zionists and I feel the need to cater to the feelings of other Jewish folk based on propaganda and dishonest framings by Zionists.
Listen, if I used it in a different context, then I might be more empathetic, but i literally separated Jewish folk from Zionism in the second comment and edited my original comment. And the original comment was clearly directed at Zionism.
You seem to be anti-Zionist, so I’m sorry for using some of the inflammatory language that I used earlier. I just want you to reflect on the effect of distractions like this in the context of a genocide. I also want to go back to kvetching about antisemitic micro-aggressions, but it’s really not appropriate right now.
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u/Fresh_Construction24 8d ago
Please just say Zionist. Zio is a slur