Anti Zionism ≠ Anti Semitism

In the West, maybe. For Hamas specifically…am I seriously the only one who read their charter? They cite the most notorious antisemitic hoax of all time with a straight face and their stated goal is to wipe out Israel and kill Jews.

And the Palestinians vote them in.

If White Southerners are responsible for the Civil War, the Palestinian people bear responsibility for choosing a genocidal majority.

My sympathy for the Palestinians only goes so far—it ends with their ballot box.

All my life I have been subject to bullies. I got an education in linguistics. There’s a piece of paper in my bedroom that says I know what I’m talking about. And I will defend the underdog because I fucking hate bullies.

Complaints about language change. No. I am a linguist. If someone says “liberry” or “expresso” or “conversate”…I could damn well care less. No one speaks a standard language and the arbiters thereof are the community who use it every day. Nonstandard words and phrases often have their own logic to them and arise because they are necessary or because it eases communication. People have been spewing rage about this since Roman times; the Appendix Probi is a jeremiad against language changes in Latin that became the foundation for Spanish and Portuguese.

People do not speak the way you would like. This is normal. They are the X-Men of language in practice. Get over it.