(Jewish Group) The New York Times updates style guide to 'antisemitism,' losing the hyphen

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1. Either way

It's really not anti(-)Semitism. It's hatred of Jews. It's a desire for Jews to be wiped off the planet. Anti, with or without the hyphen, just doesn't cut it. Same with Islamophobia or homophobia. It's not fear of Islam or fear of homosexuality. It's hatred. It's ragheads and sand n*****s. It's the world would be a better place without Muslims (that whole creating zero thing is so two millennia ago). It's fucking f*gs and lesbos and queers. It's sick, ungodly. It's the world would be a better place without the "homosexual agenda." Somehow anti- or -phobia are just not enough.

Racism and sexism and misogyny work, to a point. But again, in the times we're living in, they seem not quite strong enough.

Naming things is important. It puts everything in context. The rioters of January 6 were not tourists. They weren't even rioters. They were part of an attempted coup. They were insurrectionists. They were terrorists. And yet we dance around the issue of calling things what they are.