on 3/10/02 4:22 am, Adam C. Lipscomb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > William Goodall wrote: >> on 3/10/02 2:00 am, Robert Seeberger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >>> Your definition of "anti-semite" is virtually the same as ours. >>> Yet you *choose* to add definitions of other terms into the mix in > order to >>> justify your prejudices. >> >> It seems more likely you choose to remove them. > >> From Britannica.com: > > "anti-Semitism > Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or > racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German > agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns underway > in central Europe at that time." > > So, as the word was originally coined, its definition is as per the > common American usage.
Despite the name, Britannica is a US encyclopaedia. So the fact that it gives the US usage of the word does not add any light at all to the argument. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
