• MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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      In a strict semantic sense, sure.

      Think of the phrase “America is controlled by white people”

      Does that put an image in your head of “the people who control America happen to be white” or “white people, in aggregate run America for the collective benefit of white people”?

      People will use the phrase in both ways, but these are very different ideas.

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      Yeah I would probably say what OP meant was a distance between having a theory something is controlled by Jews vs controlled by The Jews.

      But honestly fell like even pointing out the first one of borderline anti Semitic, like when is that relevant except for anti Semitism?