I've noticed in the debate about Israel that pro-Israeli's will often resort to calling their opponent and anti-semite to completely devalue their argument.

Now I don't want to go off on a tangent on the discussion of Israel but ONLY legitimate criticism of their military use of force.

NO ONE is immune from criticism when they're impacting other people.

If you have a VALID criticism about Israel, that DOES NOT make you an anti-semite.

They use this to deflect from having to address the underlying merit of the claim.

Feminists are doing the same thing with the term "incel" now.

The theory is that men hate women SO much that they're irrational and not thinking through their arguments and this is just bigotry and their claims should be completely ignored.

For example, if I say, if men are drafted in a country, then so should women, a feminist would retort with calling me an incel.

The argument being that I'm so bigoted against men my only goal is to be harmful to women.

NEVER addressing the underlying argument (that if men serve, so should women),.

This is happening MORE AND MORE and I think we need to call it out.

It's like a combination of gaslighting and bigotry. They're gaslighting people that you're a bigot so they completely disregard your criticism of feminism.

We should call it out as hate speech.