Someone on FB is arguing that the word 'Islamophobia' is an ableist slur which diminishes the experiences of ppl who suffer genuine phobias.
I'm torn on this because it is using the language of victimhood but it really does present phobia sufferers as bad people.
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Isn't that like conflating criticism of ISIS with all Muslims? ISIS is Islamic,but not same as are decent Muslims
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Isn't what like conflating....?
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Conflating use of 'phobia' (correct or not) with a slur on phobics. It doesn't present all phobics as bad.
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If 'phobia' also comes to mean 'prejudice against' that does change its value. However, words change all the time.
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I don't care that much. Just have to be clear whether we're speaking of a psychiatric diagnosis or a bigoted attitude
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I disagree. Hitler and Chaplin had similar mustaches. A commonality says nothing about other aspects of persons.
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Don't think that works when using word 'phobic' to describe prejudice & bigotry. But semantic arguments are tedious
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Homophobia too. It's ideologically driven, so not a genuine pathology.
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Guess "homophobia" must be a sort of ironic response to the previous pathologisation of homosexuality.
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but then xenophobia is an irrational fear of strangers - as always depends how deep you want to go into that rabbit hole Alice
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