On the other hand…

The tendency to hurl “anti-semite” as an accusation cannot be denied. As an accusation, it reduces a person to no more than an anti-semite, ie no more than whatever the accuser’s conception of what an anti-semite is — typically something like a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, stupid, evil, looney, jew-hating bot.

You, for example, tried to dehumanize me by writing:

Tan, you’ve become a shell of a man. You’ll dispute it, but I dare say it’d be almost impossible for a casual reader of this site to see anything but a man now delirious with jew-hatred, certainly soaking in it. Because of course by this stage jews have become guilty of no more than breathing — and they’re only breathing that way, instead of this way because, you guessed it, they’re jews.

You attribute your own cynical thoughts to others.

There is no moral or semantic equivalence here. “Jew” is descriptive, “anti-semite” is definitive.

The tendency to hurl “jew” as an accusation cannot be denied. As an accusation, it reduces a person to no more than a jew, ie no more than whatever the accuser’s conception of what a jew is — typically something like a hook-nosed, lying, cheating shylock, money-hoarding, power-grabbing race-replacement bot. I’m sympathetic to the view that we’re all biological units and as such our biological constitution is our most important aspect, but it’s never the totality of who we are, and accusations which implicitly insist that we are can rightly be called “dehumanizing.”

“Hollywood’s run by Jews. I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. And I said “Why? Jews run Hollywood.” He said “Exactly.” He had a theory that all the executives think acting’s a job for shiksas. …In some way acting is prostitution, and Hollywood Jews don’t want their own women to participate. Also, there’s an element of Portnoy’s Complaint – they all fancy Aryan blondes.”