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����� ������/Riain Barton wrote:

> Do you base all your definitions of English words on fairy tales and 
> folklore?
> 
> Since Shem did not exist and no one can prove he did or know who his 
> descendants are, then Semites do not exist.
> 
> Semitic refers to a LANGUAGE group that includes Akkadian, Arabic, and 
> Hebrew.
> 
> http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.10.11/arts4.html
> 
> That this word is nonsensical has often been observed, not only by 
> physical anthropologists who point out that there is no such thing as a 
> "Semitic" (or, for that matter, "Aryan") race, the inhabitants of the 
> Middle East being a mixture of many different racial stocks, but also by 
> the Arab world, which has argued rather disingenuously that, since it is 
> "Semitic" itself, it cannot possibly be "anti-Semitic." For this reason, 
> some writers and publications, including the Forward, have preferred to 
> spell the word as "antisemitism." As the Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer 
> has put it:
> "Anti-Semitism" is altogether an absurd construction, since there is no 
> such thing as 'Semitism' to which it might be opposed. In German... 
> there is no hyphen, and the word has no precise meaning, although its 
> connotations are well understood.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Ed" <ed@aol.com> wrote in message 
> news:xUY6f.10728$gj1.9293@fed1read05...
> : ����� ������/Riain Barton wrote:
> :
> : > Semitic is a language group, not a racial group.
> : >
> : >
> : > "Ed" <ed@aol.com> wrote in message
> : > news:LIV6f.10683$gj1.7724@fed1read05...
> : > : ����� ������/Riain Barton wrote:
> : > :
> : > : > Are all Christians bigoted idiots like you?
> : > : >
> : > : >
> : > : >
> : > : Probably not. But, I  have nothing against Jews, but other Semites 
> are
> : > : mostly assholes.
> : >
> : >
> : The word "Semitic" is derived from the Greek Greek , of Shem, one of 
> the
> : three sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21); the noun
> : form referring to a person is Semite. The negative form of the 
> adjective
> : anti-Semitic is almost always used to mean "anti-Jewish", 
> specifically. 
> 
Cut it any way you want, I don't have a problem with Jews, but most of 
the other Semites are assholes.