roachboy

powerclown:

perhaps a point of clarification on my part is in order here.
what got me going down this road was realizing that there is almost nothing in the way in which the category "terrorist" is associated with "muslim extremists" that puts any emphasis on the word "Extremist"--in other words there is nothing in the ideology that makes sliding through it into racism a problem. you see it all the time--at the worst reflected in stats on the number of assaults on muslims in the united states--at the least bad, hearing persistent stories from all over the country about people who happen to be muslim or who happen to be arab being afraid to go outside (this mostly in the weeks following attacks of one kind of another).
you see the same thing happening at an apparently more benign level in posts here--it is really easy to slip from being specific in who you are talking about to describing an entire religious group or--more specifically--an ethnic group that is largely associated with a religious position.

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