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Your last paragraph shows the entire problem with this concept. Whiteness is definitely a race. Thus saying "white people are evil" would seem to satisfy any d
by repolfx 8y ago
Your last paragraph shows the entire problem with this concept.
Whiteness is definitely a race. Thus saying "white people are evil" would seem to satisfy any definition of racial disharmony - how can it possibly depend on context? You appear to just be proving the original posters point that these laws are never actually enforced fairly: white people get targeted by hate all the time and the authorities don't care.
But Islam is not a race. There are white Muslims. Thus whatever hatred of Muslims is, it's not racism.
People routinely lump religious hatred under the rubric of "racism" partly because that word has been granted extraordinary power in our society, partly because there isn't a nice short word for "discrimination against certain religions" and partly because Muslim people tend to overwhelmingly come from certain parts of the world originally.
But regardless of why people do it, no logical definition of racial disharmony could cover shooting up a mosque. You'd need some other type of crime for that to be logically applicable. Or you'd need to define in law that Islam is a "race" you can opt in and out of at will.