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Roberto Artellini's avatar

Shouldn't be correct then to call it "anti-nomadism"?

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Daniel Clarke-Serret's avatar

An interesting one. Probably. Although we call racism racism, not anti-racism, so I wasn't sure!!

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Roberto Artellini's avatar

I say that because if you find "nomadism" in dictionary it just means: "moving from one place to another rather than living in one place all the time". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nomadic

Since you described prejudice against jewish people as intrinsecally correlated with their nomadistic history then I think "anti-nomadism" is more correct.

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Daniel Clarke-Serret's avatar

I think you're right Roberto.

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Alan Mairson's avatar

If anti-nomadism is your general theory, then why would Hitler want to exterminate the Jews instead of simply deporting them?

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Alan Mairson's avatar

The Jewish threat to Hitler wasn't nomadism. It was the battle over general theories. Hitler had one that argued human history was a story about race. Abraham was the patriarch of a general theory that put G*d at the center, and the veracity of that theory was linked to the fate of the Jewish people. The best way to destroy a competing general theory? Exterminate the evidence that the theory is true.

I could give plenty of examples. Here's just one: the United Nations has a general theory, but it realized too late that it undermined the theory early on. As a result, the UN works overtime trying to destroy the competing general theory that undermines its own:

https://outofbabel.substack.com/p/swords-plowshares-spears-and-pruning

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