Judeopessimism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The tendency to view antisemitism as constitutive of human civilization; summarizing Jews as eternally doomed to live in substandard conditions, such as always being surrounded by a hostile population. neologism, uncountable
"This brief analysis of Berlin’s The Remnant of Israel, confronting the new term “antisemitism” and its meaning, points to some examples of what I am calling Judeopessimism, which makes claims about antisemitism that are akin to the political ontology of anti-Blackness that we find in some Afropessimists."
Example
More examples"This brief analysis of Berlin’s The Remnant of Israel, confronting the new term “antisemitism” and its meaning, points to some examples of what I am calling Judeopessimism, which makes claims about antisemitism that are akin to the political ontology of anti-Blackness that we find in some Afropessimists."
Etymology
From Judeo- + pessimism, by analogy with Afro-pessimism.
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