Oh, % of year 2000 values, ok I get now.
Hegar
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The state of israel is already doing more than enough to "remove the air from the sails of the word "antisemitism".
Antisemitism is real and a real threat and it deserves a term that reflects the level of horror that it has inflicted. Minimizing the horrors of the holocaust against the jews does nothing to combat the holocaust israel is conducting. You can't draw attention to a genocide by minimizing a different genocide. That's not how horror at human barbary works.
No one is happy that israel is abusing the term antisemitism but the solution is to point that out. Or just laugh at israel when they make obviously untrue claims, as most people do.
Using antisemitic to mean hatred of speakers of semitic languages doesn't make sense because no one groups all speakers of semitic languages together. Hatred of jews and hatred of arabs are two very different phenomena with vastly different sets of prejudices and stereotypes, each deserving of their own term.
It's not a conspiracy of the israeli government to modify english words to exclude arabs.
Semitic was a termed coined by a german academic in the late 1700s, to mean semitic languages. Antisemitism was being used to mean hatred of jews by the mid to late 1800s, mostly by german and prussian nationalists describing their own hatred of jews as antisemitism. When english borrows the term from german in 1881, it already meant hatred of jews.
I just find it hard to believe that more films have drugs than profanity.
It's a jeebus said so thing. Babies need to be baptized and sinners need to be sent to hell.
The rights that US citizens enjoy are standard across the overwhelming majority of our global peers, for any sensible definition of peer.
we haven't followed the rules the constitution imposed
A good constitution would be less ignorable. We ignore the words 'well regulated militia', for example.
Part of the reason Russia succeeded in getting trump elected is because our system, as laid out in the constitution, allows the person who got less votes to win sometimes. That's bad design.
doesn't mean you get to starve and decimate an entire country just because you don't like their politics
I think the history of the US and every other imperial power ever would disagree.
It created the flimsy disfunctional bribe machine that brought us to where we are today - it was toilet paper from the beginning.
I bet it'll end up as a "gift" to a supreme court judge from a rich fascist with business before the court.
Wait you want to hear the FBI's version of why people who film factory farms should be charged with attempted use of WMDs?
Probably the FBI is not willing to explain why they want to pretend that exposing illegal animal cruelty is the same thing as planning a mustard gas attack.