It seems to me like you can't really use "antisemitism" to talk about either side of Israel vs. Palestine, since both Jews and Arabs are Semitic people, but the word has never included all Semites.
On the other hand, often when referring to discrimination against Arabs, they'll call it "islamophobia", even though not all Arabs are Islamic.
And today I was talking about nihilism, and how it refers to something quite different than its etymological root seems like it should mean, "believing nothing", but instead it means "not believing in traditional meaning or values"
Is philosophy and sociology just the art of using clearly wrong words to describe things?
On the other hand, often when referring to discrimination against Arabs, they'll call it "islamophobia", even though not all Arabs are Islamic.
And today I was talking about nihilism, and how it refers to something quite different than its etymological root seems like it should mean, "believing nothing", but instead it means "not believing in traditional meaning or values"
Is philosophy and sociology just the art of using clearly wrong words to describe things?
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